The future of the Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium site has been much discussed recently, and this will no doubt continue over coming months. Some people have been presenting it as an 'either/or' choice between a proposal to build a new greyhound stadium and one to build a new football ground. This is wrong.
Both those proposals might well have eventual planning applications turned down. They might both have them approved. But the applications will be considered on their own individual merits, not in some sort of beauty-pageant competition.
If both get turned town then Galliard, the owner of the site, will have to seek another partner in order to fulfil the site's 'sporting intensification' designation. Those potential partners - homeless professional rugby clubs, five-a-side football providers etc - would then also have their applications judged on their merits.
Local residents who oppose one of the currently proposed schemes shouldn't be lured into thinking they automatically have to support the other.
Rob Crane
South Wimbledon
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