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Tag Archives: Lord Coe
London Stadium deal could give Crystal Palace new lease of life
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
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Boris Johnson, Commonwealth Games, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Crystal Palace Sports Partnership, Dave Bedford, John Powell, London, London Assembly, Lord Coe, Matt Lawton, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sadiq Khan, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe
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City Hall keeps National Sports Centre on amber for months
The future of the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace, which was subject to an expensively drafted con-consultation run by CSM Strategic, a company of which the Lord of the Olympic Rings himself, Sebastian Coe, is the executive chairman, remains … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sport, Zac Goldsmith MP
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, London Assembly, Lord Coe, Mayor, Member of parliament, National Sports Centre, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Trustees abandon free school plan for Crystal Palace Park
Controversial plans to build a free school in the middle of a Grade II-listed public park have been abandoned. The Crystal Palace Primary School wanted the public to pay for its buildings in the middle of the south London park, … Continue reading
Palace users call on Coe to honour his legacy promises
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
Posted in Athletics, Boris Johnson, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace athletics stadium, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Crystal Palace Park, IAAF, Lord Coe, Sebastian Coe
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£10,000 donation to Jowell’s campaign rings alarm bells
Sports and community groups in south London have expressed concerns that Dame Tessa Jowell has been hired by a company founded by Mrs Thatcher’s former spin doctor, and which has strong connections to backers of the controversial Garden Bridge project … Continue reading
Coe has been backing Baku while Crystal Palace crumbles
Sebastian Coe’s attempts to run a mile from being associated with recommendations to bulldoze Crystal Palace athletics stadium and other south London sports facilities which were to be part of the “Olympic legacy” promised by the 2012 London Games looks … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Harriers, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace NSC, Lord Coe, Mayor, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Boris aides ‘stunned’ by response to Palace consultation
Boris Johnson’s Greater London Authority was “stunned” by the depth and hostility of the response, from the public, sports bodies and from Bromley Council, to its consultation conducted last autumn on the future of the National Sports Centre at Crystal … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport, Stephen Carr
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Lord Coe, National Sports Centre, Sebastian Coe, Tory, ZhongRong, ZRG
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Time to scrap Boris’s Crystal Palace vanity project, say Greens
Time is running out for one of Boris Johnson’s vanity projects, the £500 million Chinese Crystal Palace which although unbuilt, has cast a dark shadow over the park and the National Sports Centre there, and blighted planned improvements and developments … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Greens, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory, ZhongRong Group, ZRG
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City Hall documents confirm Palace park schemes are linked
Attempts by one of Sebastian Coe’s companies to distance themselves from any relationship with China’s ZhongRong Group appear to be in vain after the Greater London Authority published its consultants’ brief and an interim report which demonstrate that any scheme … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Greens, Croydon Harriers, Croydon North, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Martyn Rooney, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Planning, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Lord Coe, Sebastian Coe, Steve Reed, Tory, ZhongRong, ZRG
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Jowell criticises Boris plan to ‘rip up iconic athletics track’
Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics Minister, has joined the campaign to keep viable athletics and sports facilities at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, in a submission to the Greater London Authority’s consultation which is highly critical of the way … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, Planning, South London Harriers, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Boris Johnson, Coe, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Lord Coe, Mayor, Mayor of London, Olympics, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tessa Jowell, Tory
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Coe wants community to have its say over Palace plans
Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic gold medal-winner and former chairman of the organising committee of London’s acclaimed 2012 Games, wants the local community to back calls to save the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre for future sporting use. Lord Coe, … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Stephen Carr, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged athletics, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, London Assembly, Lord Coe, Mayor, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory
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Bromley leader Carr attacks Boris’s Palace consultation
Seconds out, round three: In a pull-no-punches letter sent to City Hall today, Stephen Carr, the leader of Tory-run Bromley Council, has condemned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s on-going consultation over the future of Crystal Palace National Sports Centre as “…variations … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport, Stephen Carr
Tagged athletics, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, GLA, Greater London Authority, London, Lord Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory
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Coe’s Palace consultation is extended due to public demand
Campaigners fighting to save Crystal Palace as an Olympic legacy training venue were claiming a small victory last night, when the Greater London Authority announced that it had been so overwhelmed with responses to a consultation on the future of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, South London Harriers, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Lord Coe, National Sports Centre, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory, ZhongRong Group
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Coe rival Ovett backs calls to keep Crystal Palace on track
Steve Ovett, the Olympic gold medal-winner and half of one of the biggest rivalries ever seen in international sport, has entered the debate over the future of the Crystal Palace athletics stadium, backing local campaigners, and the athletes and coaches … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, London, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Tory
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Lord Coe’s company plans to bulldoze athletics stadium
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
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Crystal Palace athletics, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory, ZhongRong
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Boris’s plans for Crystal Palace are branded as ‘disastrous’
London Mayor Boris Johnson wants to bulldoze 120 years’ worth of south London’s proud sporting heritage, with proposals to demolish Crystal Palace Stadium which have been dismissed by senior sports figures as “a disgrace” and “disastrous”. It is surely more … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, History, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Lord Coe, Mayor, Olympics, Sebastian Coe, Sport
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