A planning application worth GBP100 million ($163 million approx.) project is expected to be lodged later in the year. Plans include eight new residential blocks along with the retention of the stadium’s 1932 art deco entrance arch. The developers plan to use the site’s listed kennel buildings as a crèche.
The project is a mixed development under which 490 new homes would be constructed out of which 239 would be easily affordable. Modern homes, built under this project would be for immediate sale, where as the family sized houses, key worker homes and affordable property would be available for rent and sale.
Chris Middleton, head of communications at L&Q, stated that the redevelopment was of extreme importance as extra homes were needed to provide shelter to about 2,000 homeless people.
With the closure of this stadium to accommodate the mixed use development, there are now only two dog tracks in London, at Romford and Wimbledon.
