QPR stadium at Linford Christie site

[hal9thou]

Friends of the Scrubs are more concerned with the green and wooded areas to the N & NW of LC. That's OK becuase I don't think they will be encroached on. Transport (or lack of it) will be the big issue.

[Bloodnut]

If you look at the site on google earth it looks very disjointed, the club could and maybe has consulted other owners of adjacent land i.e. the hospital, Burlington Danes, Woodlane High School, Latymer School and Hammersmith Hospital to see if there is any possibility of utilising the space better, for instance parking. Schools and hospitals generally need it during midweek days and football grounds at weekends and midweek nights.

Also on the aerial maps i can't see any playgrounds for either school (Woodlane or Danes).

[davieqpr]

I’m a bit concerned about the “friends” of wormwood Scrubs.
Not sure how many members they have ? Are they a small middle class clique ?
What we need is for a hundred or so QPR fans from East Action and the North Pole road area to join the group and support QPR’S ambitions from that direction.

A small middle class clique held up the training ground for quite a while. Plus the professional, out of work , protesters will be back.Just hope they realise how much it can cost.

[dogsrrs]

A small middle class clique held up the training ground for quite a while. Plus the professional, out of work , protesters will be back.Just hope they realise how much it can cost.

Totally different arguement Dave the protest on the training ground was on principle of a million pound private company being given a large piece of public land for nothing , the L C will be paid for ,but as you say the professional protesters will always find something to object to

[Gtleighsr3]

if it gets the go ahead who is going to build it,all the e u lot going home or not coming in. the paddies work till pub opens,the yoot of today dont know what a shovel is.

[The General]

Council have released a statement saying that they will not just give up the land to QPR for nothing
And that the QPR owners are more interested in property development than football
Also says they want the owners to give up some of the ownership of the club to the community
Statement on Loft for words

[corbray]

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2018/11/statement-responding-queens-park-rangers-economic-impact-report

link to the article

[West Acton]

Wow battle lines drawn. In short make us reasonable offer and it’s yours is my reading of that.

Odd request for club to give up part ownership!!! what’s that about??? Unless council want percentage as bargaining chip so if we ever get prem again they got significant income or am I being cynical

[qprjeff1882]

Wow battle lines drawn. In short make us reasonable offer and it’s yours is my reading of that.

Odd request for club to give up part ownership!!! what’s that about??? Unless council want percentage as bargaining chip so if we ever get prem again they got significant income or am I being cynical

That sounds like it to me. They're saying they want QPR to pay for the land and yes looks to me like they want a stake in the club as part of the deal. Which i doubt very much the owners will do. I agree on paying for the land though. Surely the sale of Loftus Road will compensate for that and some. Anyway i can't see this happening any time soon. At least not in the next 10 years as there will be objections left right amd centre.

[The General]

Maybe we should pay for the land why should we really get it free
Sell Loftus and give them acut often sale easy really isn't. It

[Stanley]

the sale of Loftus Road

How much is the LR land worth roughly, in comparison to the land we wish to buy/lease, I wonder?

Basic question but a crucial one I guess.

[cross it Dave]

My memory maybe playing tricks on me, but hasn’t Loftus Rd got a covenant on it stating that the land can only be used for sporting activity’s??

[dogsrrs]

Wow battle lines drawn. In short make us reasonable offer and it’s yours is my reading of that.

Odd request for club to give up part ownership!!! what’s that about??? Unless council want percentage as bargaining chip so if we ever get prem again they got significant income or am I being cynical

Could be the other way around Westy that the council don't fully trust the motives of the QPR owners and want the fans having the right to veto the the owners plans , quite e few people have have thought that they only really want QPR as vehicle to get into the OOC development , when the plans for the area were 1st made public that the project wouldn't be allowed to be just a housing development but would need entertainment facilities plus , and QPR being part of the local community would help to win favour along with the council statements that a %of housing would be available to local people

[dogsrrs]

My memory maybe playing tricks on me, but hasn’t Loftus Rd got a covenant on it stating that the land can only be used for sporting activity’s??

That could easily be recinded Dave in the event that of an alternative site being found locally

[SpongeParr]

Sounds like they are open to investment into the ground, but they are saying that they won't just give the land away. Why would they? Why should we make money from selling LR and then get LC site free. They have a lot of people paying council tax that wouldn't want that.

I quite like that they said about the fans getting some shares. Giving us protection; i can't see it happening though