(B22) CRYSTAL
PALACE PARK - CURRENT STATUS
Ray Sacks & Pat Trembath
Crystal Palace Campaign, 6 June 2003
Crystal Palace Park has many areas
of concern and all of which bear on any future plans for the park.
The map below highlights such areas and shows how much of the park is
now closed or generally unavailable to the general public. It also
gives an impression of the scale of the problems. The list below
covers the main topics but is not comprehensive.
- Hilltop site - fenced off to
prevent fly-tipping and travellor incursions
- Reservoir and TV mast - sites
closed off and operated by others
- Caravan site - caravaners
only
- Museum - old properties removed
now several containers parked in that space
- Spoil - large heap in the
centre of the park
- National Sports Centre - fate
in doubt after Sport England contract comes to an end early in
2004
- Fisherman's lake - only open to
angling members
- Maintenance area and new
buildings - unoccupied
- Dinosaur area - still closed,
work continuing (conducted tours only)
- Farm - unoccupied
- Boating lake - no
boats
- Concert bowl and concert
platform - no concerts
- Stone channel - doesn't drain
properly
- Loudspeaker towers -
defunct
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of the PARK June
2003
5/6/03 Last Updated 5/6/03;
11/6/03(added link to pictures)