Walthamstow Dog Track Update: Save our Stow Planning Application
You may have seen press reports regarding recent moves around the future of Walthamstow Dog Track and our continuing efforts to see it restored for the benefit of our local economy. There continues to be strong commercial interest in this from a number of investors and the plans have now gathered the support of the Mayor of London. To help progress matters, Save our Stow, the lobby organisation committed to bringing greyhound racing back to Walthamstow, have now signalled their intent to put forward a formal Planning Application for the site to Waltham Forest Council by the 20th June 2010. Working with a number of investors, they hope to persuade London and Quadrant, the Housing Association who currently own the site, to allow them to lease it whilst building a limited amount of housing alongside the track itself. This is a format that has been used by a number of greyhound tracks to help secure their economic viability. To progress this, I have offered to facilitate talks between London and Quadrant and investors as well as other interested parties. I will update this website as and when there are further developments.
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