? National Sports Centre at heart of Tottenham plans
? Crystal Palace want to leave Selhurst Park
The battle for possession of the Olympic Stadium at Stratford will take a further twist this week when Crystal Palace unveil plans to move to the National Sports Centre. Tottenham Hotspur want to renovate that venue as part of their bid.
The National Sports Centre, in Crystal Palace Park, was Crystal Palace's original home and successive owners of the club have raised the possibility of leaving Selhurst Park to move back there. The idea is believed to be back on the agenda.
CPFC2010, a consortium that bought the club out of administration last year, confirmed today that it would hold a press conference on Thursday, at which it would outline its plans. However, obstacles remain. Crystal Palace's previous attempts to move have foundered on opposition from the four local borough councils that converge in the park, and concern from local residents.
It is believed that Palace's proposal ? which involves building a football stadium on the site ? will be in opposition to Tottenham's offer to fund the redevelopment of the National Sports Centre's existing athletics stadium into a 25,000?capacity venue, in order to facilitate the demolition of two thirds of the Olympic Stadium and its replacement with a 60,000?seat football ground. Sources close to the Tottenham bid, which is up against a bid from West Ham United, said tonight that they had not been contacted by Palace.
The land on which the National Sports Centre sits is owned by the Mayor's London Development Agency, which recently submitted its own plan for the area and is believed to invest around �1m a year in maintaining it. The London Mayor will also be expected to rubber-stamp the decision of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, which will decide between the Spurs and West Ham bids on 28 January.
Meanwhile, Haringey Council yesterday hit back at claims that it has been dragging its feet over Spurs' plans to redevelop White Hart Lane, leading it to turn its attention to the Stratford option.
Its leader, Claire Kober, said it was a "myth" and said the council had been "enormously supportive" of the project and "has gone to considerable lengths to expedite the process".
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jan/17/crystal-palace-national-sports-centre
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