http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/qpr-help-kick-off-oaklands-groundbreaking Please explain this to me in light about what we know about the Old Oak site....It is dated today I am sure Site work has officially begun on the massive Old Oak and Park Royal regeneration scheme in west London. please log in to view this image Above: Deputy mayor James Murray starts demolition works The £175m Oaklands scheme will deliver the first 605 homes of a planned development of ultimately 25,500 new homes. Deputy mayor of London James Murray joined Liz Peace, chairman of the Old Oak & Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) on site today to ceremoniously begin demolition of a derelict hostel, the first step in the Oaklands scheme. The two joined representatives from Genesis Housing Association and Queens Park Rangers who also have a key role in delivering the vision for Old Oak and Park Royal, which is eventually set to includes a new football stadium for QPR and a Crossrail/HS2 rail interchange as well as thousands of new homes. Liz Peace said: “Today’s ground-breaking marks the start of early-delivery of hundreds of affordable homes for Londoners and the community in west London. I am delighted to kick-start the wider regeneration of Old Oak and Park Royal in line with mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s priorities. This first major scheme granted consent by OPDC and the mayor paves the way to creating a place where people will want to live, work, spend their leisure time and bring up their families.” QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said: “We are delighted to be working with Genesis to develop the Oaklands site. The fact that we are creating 600 homes for Londoners, including many affordable homes, 10 years in advance of HS2 shows that there is plenty that can be achieved at Old Oak well before the new high speed line is finished. “We own other sites in Old Oak and want to bring them forward as quickly as possible to create the homes and affordable homes that London desperately needs. I know the Mayor and the Government both share this aim, and have made funding available to pay for infrastructure that would lead to additional early housing development. A bridge from Willesden Junction to the north of Old Oak is exactly the kind of infrastructure that could do this, and we want to work closely with them to make it happen. “All this development will help to alleviate London’s housing crisis, as well help us achieve our ultimate goal, which is to secure the future of QPR in West London through the construction of a new stadium with sporting, community and educational facilities that are used all year round.”
I hope this isn't another attempt to force the hand of Car Giant... the last effort went spectacularly wrong...
They haven't given up the ghost on the old oak site, we own lots of plots of land there already that we are building housing on, was obviously intended as a sweetener to get the stadium go ahead. Also remember that the LC stadium is directly across the park from where the new station will be, would be easy enough to connect a stadium there to the main site via some kind of path through the park.
The way I read it is that QPR are helping with the development of the first phase in order to gain access to developing the stadium in a later phase. "Many affordable homes" is a very solid figure.
It didn't happen today. I read about it a week or so ago, there was a better picture of TF with him in the centre of the photo.
More bullsh*t no doubt, the stadium is nothing more than a pipe-dream in that location. The LC project is probably the only viable option but I wouldn't hold my breath based on past 'promises', we'll be in the Conference by time we decide to downsize...
I'd be happier if we could just concentrate on building our team. Why all the fuss about a bigger stadium when we rarely fill out the one we've got?
Just look at Brighton and the Goldstone Ground and now the AMEX. I dream that might happen to us (not the bit where the directors sell the ground from under the team....and the club spend years wandering in the wilderness...not that bit of course)
I think stadiums go hand in hand with stuff on the pitch sometimes. Think of players who want to join a club and see a good stadium and training facilities. Sometimes it not all about money. Take the fakes, they got crowds of 3-6K, built a new stadium and training facilities and now I believe they average more than us at home. And before anyone says it, there are more people around west London than Reading (including for other clubs like Scum Bees and Fool). As for not being able to fill HQ? Just look at the facilities/leg room/football/prices/parking before you mention that. HQ is a fab ground for atmosphere and I love Shepherds Bush but in today's world of football if you don't move with the times and spectators you will end up dying out. For me, LC stadium would be the ideal place as it's W12 but if it means that we will progress on the pitch I would go to OOC. Anyway i really believe this is a long way off if not fantasy.
Call me a happy clapper if you like, but I actually think the owners deserve a little credit here. They seem to me to be doing all they can to make the dream of getting a new larger stadium within the same area actually happen. If I was a multimillionaire based overseas I'm not so sure I'd want all the aggravation.
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