belle vue

Highly unlikely now the plans will get rejected after the Planning officer reccomended approval. Think we're relying on ARC to do a deal to buy the freehold once the planning issue is sorted.

Can't see that happening, great times in the 80s and mainly the 90s at the Zoo. Great banter with the likes of Teacher and the twins.

Seems such a long time ago.

Teacher different gravy. Wen i was a kennelhand with jimmy gibson i went on a streak. £50 bets. Looked after me always best odds. Gave him a grand 1 night at blackpool. Dog of 3 yrds inside box. Jimmy had done his money 3 times on it. It won from blackpool to sheffield. Told him it would not get beat. He filled the bag. Laid me 5/2 to lot.

just watched the live stream. All done and dusted in minutes it seemed. Accepted the proposals from what i could gather

Best running track left and now that's going.

arc could buy it. would be good financial investment now that land is worth what it is.

That's what the GRA thought when they started their buying and selling of tracks.

felt ham was poorly advised when to sell the tracks imo. he cost himself millions not waiting. deserves all he gets greedy cooooont. dont believe all is lost for belle vue. arc have visions to make there tracks stay. they will do all they can imo.

In the summer of 1969 it traded as the Greyhound Racing Property Trust. This move, together with a contemporaneous improvement of tax conditions for the industry by Chancellor Jim Callaghan, saw the GRA's share price improve dramatically. The GRA's strategy was to buy up tracks which raised the value of the company's stock and to sell when the price of property boomed. They sold six tracks from 1970-1974 (Charlton, Kings Heath, West Ham, Reading, Liverpool and Clapton) and had previously agreed the sale of their flagship track White City.[12] Foreseeing that industry rationalisation would be required, the company embarked on a strategy that would allow them to control this phase, buying up competing tracks. As part of this spate of buying, in March 1972, GRA Property Trust acquired Wimbledon Stadium, later its flagship venue.

Despite the track sales the company secured various loans and also began to apply for planning permission of some of its London sites to secure their development value. However, a slump in the property market caused shares in property companies to free-fall. At the beginning of 1975 GRA Property Trust was suspended from the Stock Exchange following news of debts said to be in the region of £20 million. The management of the company during this period was inept, the assets were sold but they still accumulated debts of £18.4 million. A scheme of arrangement was organised in 1976 in order to avoid liquidation.[14] They then sold their third share in Walthamstow and their 23% stake in Coral.

The company survived in part through 1980s sale of a number of leading GRA venues, including White City, Slough, Shawfield, Harringay, and Powderhall. In 1987 GRA was the subject of a £68.5 million reverse takeover by Wembley Stadium. Wembley assumed control of GRA and in February 1988 the GRA Group was renamed Wembley plc. The company went through a period of reorganisation and modernisation during the 1990s, and in 1998 GRA purchased Oxford Stadium. 2003 saw the lease acquisition of another new track, Perry Barr Stadium, in north Birmingham. At the same time the Catford Stadium track was closed. Wembley Plc sold the GRA to Risk Capital Partners in 2005 and later traded as GRA Acquisition Ltd.

they av made a complete balls of everything they av ever touched sparrow.

The biggest balls up they made here was selling the freehold for a paltry 2.5 million 5 years ago and losing control of the tracks destiny

Did you know Scotch David Laird, Big Rab Smith, John Lea, Tony Gough(RIP) from your Blackpool days Private? Some characters there but they could all do a dog and didnt leave their money behind!

greyhoundstar.co.uk/belle-vue-planning-approved-trainers-look-arc/

I didn,t know him but i knew of davie laird.