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Sad thing is Col although i love HQ and its 1000 times better than those soulless kit stadiums (Reading/DerbyBolton) we really do need a new ground. HQ is looking old now (like me) and we need better space/facilities. The match day experience has become cr2p and we are getting left behind.
If TF cocks up the new stadium he should fall on his sword.

I went to the recent Brentford game; now, that is a c**p stadium. It made me feel so much better about Loftus Road! But, of course, it needs to be bigger and better if we are to realise our ambitions. And even Brentford have well-advanced plans for a shiny new home close to Griffin Park.
 
Loftus Road is an unpleasant, uncomfortable, unwelcoming stadium. We need to replace it asap in my opinion, wherever that may be.
 
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I want us to have a better stadium but i don't want to move into some retail park by a motorway or in the middle of a field. We need to stay as close to W12 (if not within). Love Shepherds Bush/History/Pubs, even the dodge food outlets. Agree with Totallyqpr we should have got WC, then beeb, then Westfield, then Scrubs/LC.
These are the places that are QPR for me
 
How well used is the Linford Christie Stadium? That would be a perfect place to buy and build.
Old Oak just seems to me to be something that is not going to happen, and I totally (see what I did there) concur with what Ellers said; we really need a new stadium. Just imagine that we had got hold of the WC Stadium when we should have. We would have a much bigger fan base, real supporters, in a much bigger stadium.
Then we missed and then we missed and then we missed and then we missed and now we are missing...

Lots of money available to build new prisons and get rid of the old Victorian ones.

The Scrubs might be available in 10 years time.
 
Loftus Road is an unpleasant, uncomfortable, unwelcoming stadium. We need to replace it asap in my opinion, wherever that may be.

Agreed. Although it does feel a more pleasant and welcoming stadium when the team play well

...though even that can't make it comfortable
 
I don't know London that well, but if our moving to Old Oak means Loftus Road is up for grabs as a housing development project, then the house numbers wanting to be built won't be affected by the move. Or am I wrong entirely.
 
Some posters on here over the years have speculated that TF & Co were only ever in QPR for the business prospects it attracted.
From a business point of view, redeveloping Linford Christie does not fit the bill since it would be there in splendid isolation and hardly used.
The ideal for them is a stadium at Old Oak as a multi-function venue and then re-developing LR into something that also generates money. I recall that there are planning restriction on LR and permission would not be given for housing.
 
The new grandstand at Cheltenham was put up in 19 months. I know they didn't need to find land etc but it just highlights how mind numbingly slow this has been.
 
Some posters on here over the years have speculated that TF & Co were only ever in QPR for the business prospects it attracted.
From a business point of view, redeveloping Linford Christie does not fit the bill since it would be there in splendid isolation and hardly used.
The ideal for them is a stadium at Old Oak as a multi-function venue and then re-developing LR into something that also generates money. I recall that there are planning restriction on LR and permission would not be given for housing.

I think you'll find that any such restriction would be overturned in favour of housing as it is not a green space or common land. Housing is top priority in London nowadays...
 
The £300 odd million TF and co wasted on; SWP, Caulker, McCarthy, Dyer, Mbia, Samba, Taiwo, Traore, Cesar, Bosingwa, Park, Cisse, Granero, Ferdinand (x2), Mutch and Fer to name but 17 (and I am sure there are more) would have probably contributed in no small way to a new stadium. Looking at the QPR accounts must make our Tony and his consortium even more nauseous and deflated than the team leaves me feeling every other week as I wander back down South Africa Rd.
 
The OPDC is currently working up a ‘masterplan’ for the entire area which will set out how they would like to see development brought forward. Genesis controls the Oaklands site. QPR has other strategic land interests in Old Oak and would like to build a new stadium as part of the wider development, providing a new home for the Club. Genesis and QPR have agreed to work together to deliver this early development.