Wimbledon Dog Track Closes, To Make Way For AFC Wimbledon's New Stadium.
Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium closed it's doors on Saturday 25th March 2017, after hosting it's last greyhound meeting, having been a greyhound track since 1928.
The famous dog track will no longer host racing, as it's levelled to make way for AFC Wimbledon's new stadium, the track hosted the sports biggest race, the English Greyhound Derby for 32 years.
With the closure it means there is not a dog stadium in the capital, at one time there was 33 tracks, but now none. Crayford in Kent & Hove in East Sus*** are now the nearest for punters to attend a meeting.
Galliard Homes Ltd purchased the site from Wembley Plc, when their subsidary company Greyhound Racing Association ( GRA ) was put up for sale in 2007.
AFC Wimbledon & Galliared put in a joint planning application to build a 11,000 seater football stadium, & 600 new homes on site. It was approved by the Labour controlled London Borough of Merton in December 2015.
The same Merton council who have decided to charge a diesel vehicle surcharge on car parking zones in the borough, from 1st April 2017'
The normal permit charge for a vehicle is £90 for one year, but if it's a diesel a extra amount of another £90 surcharge is added,for the year 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018, so the permit is £180.
Then 1st April 2018 the surcharge for a diesel vehicle will be £115 on top of normal 1 year permit price, then 1st April 2019 the surcharge rises to £150 for a diesel vehicle,plus what ever the 1 year normal permit price is.
There is a pricing scale on ownership of several vehicles for the car parking zones.
