DATE | COMPANY | COMMENTS |
1894 | DRAPERS COMPANY | THE DRAPERS COMPANY BOUGHT A BRICKFIELD IN LEYTON HIGH ROAD/ TEMPLE MILL LANE AND CALLED IT LEYTON RECREATION GROUND. THEY GAVE USE OF THE FIELD TO THE PEOPLES PALACE MILE END NOW QUEEN MARYS UNIVERSITY. LATER ON IT WAS KNOWN AS DRAPERS FIELD.DON’T KNOW WHEN THE NAME CHANGED. |
1927 | STRATFORD EXPRESS APRIL 23RD 1927 (SECTION OF 1 OF 3 NEWSPAPER CLIPS DONATED BY SIR JAMES SLADE BOROUGH MAYOR OF LEYTON TO BREN KENNEDY HISTORY OF LEYTON HELD AT VESTRY HOUSE) | THE PIECE OF LAND NOW KNOWN AS THE DRAPERS COMPANY RECREATION GROUND WAS FORMERLY A BRICKFIELD. THE COMPANY SECURED IT AFTER IT HAD BEEN WORKED OUT AND HAD CONFERRED A BENEFIT ON LEYTON. |
1937 | DRAPERS COMPANY SOLD THE FIELD TO THE LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD | THE PEOPLES PALACE ASKED TO CONTINUE USING THE FIELD BUT WAS TOLD THAT THIS COULD NOT BE GUARANTEED. A SIX MONTH LEASE WAS AGREED AFTER WHICH THE DRAPERS COMPANY AN FOUND ALTERNATIVE GROUND FOR THE PEOPLES PALACE. |
1953 | LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST (ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL) BOUGHT THE LAND | LONDON TRANSPORT MAINTAINS THE RIGHT TO DRAIN WATER FROM THE RAILWAY INTO THE SEWER. ALSO, NO BUILDING SHOULD BE ERECTED WITHOUT LONDON TRANSPORT APPROVAL OF THE FOUNDATIONS TO BE DUG DUE TO THE TUNNELS RUNNING UNDER THE GROUND. THE FIELD WAS BOUGHT FOR THE USE OF RUCKHOLT SCHOOL. |
| 1ST SEPTEMBER 2011 TO 31ST DECEMBER 2012 | OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY/LBWF | PROPOSED DEVELOPEMENT Temporary Athletes' Village Operational Support Area
(VOSA) to provide back of house services during the
London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 (from
1st September 2011 - 31st December 2012),
comprising: erection of a 13 metre high tented
warehouse building; an administration building; WC
building; 1 x pedestrian & 1 x vehicle accreditation
area structures; refrigeration storage unit; 28 shipping
containers and an Outer Perimeter Fence (OPF) and
demarcation fence. Provision for 24 parking spaces,
44 parking spaces for buggies and, associated
alterations and landscaping.
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POST 2012 | LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST | In December 2012 the site is proposed to be returned to the Council for
reinstatement and improvement works. The details of these works will
be set out in a s106 agreement, to which the Olympic Delivery
Authority and the Council will be parties. The agreement would provide
a contribution (to the sum of £2,000,000) to secure works, which will
generally comprise the following, as a minimum:
1. The re-provision of a full size, floodlit and fenced Artificial
Grass Pitch
2. The installation of a new junior natural turf pitch including
drainage and pitch improvement works
3. Improvement works to the changing pavilion
- with the timetable for these works anticipating their substantial
completion by no later than 30th September 2013. Works to be carried
out with the agreement of, and to the standards required by, Sport
England
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