Tag Archives: Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

Khan set to splash the cash to re-open Crystal Palace pools

Posted on May 26, 2023 by insidecroydon

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has approved the immediate spending of up to £10million to bring key parts of the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace back into use, providing for urgent repairs to the Olympic-sized swimming pool and for the … Continue reading →

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London Stadium deal could give Crystal Palace new lease of life

Posted on February 13, 2023 by insidecroydon

After decades of damaging dither and delay, might an eclectic coalition of bodies, including a Premier League football club, be about to come up with a plan, and the cash, to revive the NSC? By STEVEN DOWNES Might there be … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s Fraser named Woman of the Year by World Athletics

Posted on November 30, 2022 by insidecroydon

Croydon Harrier Donna Fraser has been named “Woman of the Year” as part of the World Athletics Awards 2022. Fraser twice won world 4x400metres relay medals and in 2000 she placed fourth in the Sydney Olympic 400metres final. She “has … Continue reading →

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Customers at Crystal Palace stadium could be left in the dark

Posted on November 25, 2022 by insidecroydon

One week on from an emergency closure of the National Sports Centre and parts of Crystal Palace Park, the venue is being “partially” re-opened today. But the thousands of runners, jumpers and throwers who train on the track at what … Continue reading →

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‘Exclusion zones’ set up for public safety in Crystal Palace Park

Posted on November 21, 2022 by insidecroydon

Some parts of Crystal Palace Park remain in an “exclusion zone” three days after the park was subject to an emergency shutdown because concrete pillars that support the floodlights around the athletics stadium at the National Sports Centre were deemed … Continue reading →

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Concern over Crystal Palace sports centre’s emergency closure

Posted on November 19, 2022 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace Stadium, for 50 years the home of British athletics, was last night subject to an emergency closure for safety reasons. The whole of the National Sports Centre, including the sports hall and gyms, is closed this weekend. There … Continue reading →

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Mayor Khan agrees to repair Crystal Palace swimming pools

Posted on November 14, 2021 by insidecroydon

Crystal Palace’s swimming and diving pools are set to get a multi-million facelift and repair package to enable them to re-open, after the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, agreed to get the works done, a decision which City Hall today … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace at risk as London squanders its Olympic legacy

Posted on August 11, 2021 by insidecroydon

Britain’s Olympic heroes and heroines had barely stepped off their homecoming flights from Tokyo than coaches and administrators were warning that the promised “sporting legacy” of greater participation and increased achievement and excellence is being squandered through neglect and lack … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace Park is electrified to get a bit of The Power

Posted on April 7, 2021 by insidecroydon

The race track around the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace has been transformed this week into a trailer park for location shooting of a blockbuster television series. Amazon Prime are adapting Naomi Alderman’s prize-winning novel The Power into a … Continue reading →

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Trams mark arrival at Crystal Palace with memorable comeback

Posted on December 7, 2020 by insidecroydon

After 10 months without a home game, the borough’s oldest non-league club enjoyed a homecoming with a difference on Saturday, with the most rousing of comeback wins, as ANDREW SINCLAIR reports For the first time in almost 10 months, thanks … Continue reading →

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Non-league football ordered to suspend games and training

Posted on November 3, 2020 by insidecroydon

    Croydon FC’s dreams of playing their first home fixture of the season at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre this Saturday have been crushed after the FA this morning confirmed the postponement of all “non-elite” football due to the … Continue reading →

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Pool plans would make swims less accessible at Crystal Palace

Posted on February 8, 2019 by insidecroydon

The draft plans for the future of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre being presented as the “final” consultation at the venue tomorrow would, if finally approved by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, make it virtually impossible for the elderly … Continue reading →

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‘Unrealistic’ plans for Crystal Palace face a ‘final’ showdown

Posted on February 6, 2019 by insidecroydon

The latest draft of plans for the future of the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace “falls way short” and is “unrealistic”, according to the campaign group which represents thousands of users of the Olympic legacy sports facilities. There is … Continue reading →

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Meeting to discuss mounting threat to Crystal Palace centre

Posted on October 3, 2018 by insidecroydon

The Crystal Palace Community Association is holding an open meeting next week to discuss the future of the National Sports Centre. As details of plans for the Centre have emerged during the recent consultation process, organised on behalf of the … Continue reading →

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‘Deep suspicion’ over Mayor plans for National Sports Centre

Posted on August 20, 2018 by insidecroydon

The future of the athletics stadium at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is under threat once again, as the Mayor of London is staging the latest round of “consultations” on the badly neglected, once internationally renowned facility. Campaigners have … Continue reading →

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Chinese billionaire wants second helpings of Palace takeaway

Posted on February 2, 2018 by insidecroydon

“I still want to rebuild the Crystal Palace,” Ni Zhaoxing, the billionaire owner of the ZhongRong Group, declared in Beijing earlier this week. Ni, described as “a 62-year-old Anglophile”, was interviewed by the Financial Times during Prime Minister Theresa May’s … Continue reading →

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Is the bell sounding for the final lap at Crystal Palace NSC?

Posted on February 2, 2018 by insidecroydon

There’s a public consultation underway to try to resolve the future of the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace. And it’s déjà vu all over again. Poor publicity for the process run by a bunch of consultants, a reluctant attitude … Continue reading →

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Boris finally abandons plans to demolish Crystal Palace track

Posted on January 31, 2016 by insidecroydon

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has finally abandoned his ill-considered plans to demolish Crystal Palace’s athletics stadium and indoor track, following the deeply flawed consultation conducted by a company which has London’s Olympic hero, Seb Coe, as its executive chairman. … Continue reading →

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Palace users call on Coe to honour his legacy promises

Posted on August 20, 2015 by insidecroydon

Within a day of Sebastian Coe winning election to one of the most powerful positions in world sport, users of the under-threat facilities at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre have issued a challenge to the double Olympic gold medal-winner to … Continue reading →

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Lord Coe’s company plans to bulldoze athletics stadium

Posted on October 15, 2014 by insidecroydon

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organising committee which promised to create a sporting legacy for London and the whole of Britain, now heads up the company which has put forward plans to bulldoze the Crystal Palace … Continue reading →

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Public only get to peek in at the uncertain Palace plans

Posted on March 4, 2014 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Nearly a year on since Boris Johnson stood on the terracing of the old Crystal Palace to announce a £500 million “investment” and the handing over of a significant chunk of public property to a Chinese developer, there’s … Continue reading →

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