There seems to be a lot of negativity towards CPNP. Have we forgotten that until recently it was our National Sports Centre. Yet our only attempt to do something there was a half hearted approach that didn’t even get to the planning stage some twelve years ago. We weren’t even premier then!
Given the growth of football and Palace with some serious lobbying through the right channels, offering fantastic new sports faculties and much more for the local community including shopping centre etc etc. I believe it would be taken very seriously. The local NIMBYS can’t refuse what is an existing facility being re shaped. Especially if we got the ODPM behind it and the Mayor of London.
Just seems everyone has blown it out without professionally testing it in recent times.

Edited by dreamwaverider (28 Sep 2022 4.07pm)

I feel quite conflicted on this. On the one hand we have one stand at SP which is well past it's sell by date and as it is is made in part from wood possibly a fire hazard, but three other stands that are ok. Not great just ok.

There is talk of moving to a new ground, but my concern is that may come with an out of town site that is pretty hard to get to and pretty grim when you get there.

Look at Coventry (possibly the first 'new' ground?) Reading l,Bolton, Huddersfield all nice looking modern grounds but a bugger to get to and from on public transport and nowhere to go for a pint after the game

Unless we can do an Arsenal, Spurs or even a Brentford, will it be any better?.

I can't see Crystal Palace Park as an option as that was impossible to to get to when it hosted major athletics or concerts way back and I can't see how you would enhance public transport to solve that.

I would also not want to to see us move to the M25 fringes as it ain't sarf London

Not sure what will happen but know it won't happen soon

A move to the National Sports Centre would entail a complete stadium development, and of course the cost would be far in excess of the £100 Mill figure that is currently reported for the main stand project at Selhurst Park.

I do not believe there is any appetite for abandoning the current proposal in favour of a full-scale development of a new stadium.

In the meantime can we perhaps make having a pi$$ in the AW not such a rubbish experience. The stairs down are a nightmare.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

It is not Khan's fault. Having previously lived 1 mile away from CP Park for 30 years the transport links and roads are terrible. Rush hour is a joke. To get to a Palace evening game i would take a 2 mile detour to avoid the whole area.
The train station is poorly served so whilst closeby could not cope with a football match crowd.
I went to a basketball game at CP once, attendance less than 500 and this caused grid lock getting into the park. Ridiculous.

I would love CP Park as it is the home of the club, however, the roads/transport are not even the biggest issue. The complexity with the councils - Bromley own the park but don't really care, and i think 3 or 4 other councils are impacted (Lambeth, Croydon and Southwark i think). Then there are the locals who are vocal and well organised.

I really think it's a non starter.

There is no way the club could fund that as it would cost billions.