Jimmy Greaves on the stratford move

SuneJim wrote:

anicoll5 wrote:Building a few flats and houses as part of a £450 million project ?
Christ almighty what an outrageous suggestion

Yeah it is it's a fcuking disgrace being held to ransom by a council so we build housing for a bunch of immigrants that have no affiliation with Spurs & have made the area the sh*t hole it is.

We want to take the next step we need to compete financially & the demands being made on us from Haringey Council have made refurbishing WHL virtually impossible & stay on a sturdy financial footing,, the more people start to realise the bloody better instead of whinging on about the history & the heart of an area that is dead now.

Daniel Levy has stated today that whether we get the Olympic Stadium or not we're not staying at WHL because of all the impositions being imposed on us. So get used to it, i have. I'm enjoying champions league & being touted as possible Premiership Winners for however long it's lasted & i know we need to bring in more money especially with the new laws about your income being brought into the game soon, so if we have to move to keep that going then so be it. By wanting to stay at WHL no matter what your caring more about our history than our future & that's just short sighted & narrow minded.

Sorry about the swearing but i'm really emotional about this i love Spurs i love WHL, but we're being forced to have to look else where for the good of the club & all the fans have to get on board or watch us sink back into mediocrity.

anicoll5 wrote:What was agreed to between THFC and LBH;

A 56,250 capacity stadium adjacent to Spurs’ existing White Hart Lane stadium

200 new homes – including 56 one-bed flats, 56 two-bed flats, 49 three-bed properties and 39 four-bed houses, with 50 per cent affordable housing

A 150-bedroom hotel

A 24-hour supermarket

A new public square and raised piazza

Restaurants, cafes and bars


So exactly where in there are Haringey screwing the life out of Levy ?

The Emirates involved 1400 - yes fourteen hundred- flats and houses for 'social housing

anicoll5 wrote:Sid there is no question that you own the land - we owned the site of the Emirates - that still did not get us off the hook building flats and houses, relocating businesses and workshops, and moving the bloody rubbish dump

As for the hotel, supermarket and restuarants that is, and always has been, part of Levy's plans for the NDP site - that is where the commercial profit is in the short term and revenue for the council- it is in neither Levy's nor Haringey's interest to let any of the site stay unused or unoccupied - why would either side do that ?

Will the regeneration work and Tottenham become a flourishing suburb on a par with leafy Hampstead ? I dunno ( well I do really) - but it is really not Spuds problem is it ? any more than what happens in Islington is of more than passing interest to Arsenal

anicoll5 wrote:So Lammy did all that ? Then look at the following - you will see what is said to be the club's master plan


http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/futureplans/scheme/masterplan.html

Personally the only think I think you got stiffed on was the English Heritage demand to preserve some very, very ordinary old buildings

The rest of it all seems very much what I expect to see in a large urban development with a mix of private and public housing, retail, leisure - and think of all those new Japanese fans who will be looking forward to their week at a luxury hotel in Tottenham - poor buggers