Tag Archives: Seb Coe

‘This is a once-in-a-generation chance. We have to get it right’

Posted on October 20, 2023 by insidecroydon

A public meeting tomorrow at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre aims to outline the plans for a £200m refurbishment – and work is already underway. By STEVEN DOWNES Early arrivers for a presentation tomorrow about the future of the Crystal … 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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£10,000 donation to Jowell’s campaign rings alarm bells

Posted on July 31, 2015 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Time to scrap Boris’s Crystal Palace vanity project, say Greens

Posted on January 30, 2015 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Jowell criticises Boris plan to ‘rip up iconic athletics track’

Posted on November 17, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Coe wants community to have its say over Palace plans

Posted on November 12, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Coe’s Palace consultation is extended due to public demand

Posted on October 25, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Coe rival Ovett backs calls to keep Crystal Palace on track

Posted on October 20, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

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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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