Lord Lucas calls for cheaper permanent facility at Surrey guns centre instead of temporary venue at Woolwich
Plans to build a 拢40m shooting venue at Woolwich for the Olympic Games have been lambasted in Westminster.
Conservative peer Lord Lucas said the project was a 鈥渕ost appalling waste鈥� and called for the 2012 shooting events to be moved to Bisley in Surrey, where the National Shooting Centre is based.
During question time on Tuesday, Lucas said: 鈥淚s it not a strange definition of cost-effective and a most appalling waste to spend 拢40m on a shooting venue at Woolwich, which will be destroyed immediately after the Olympics, rather than 拢10m less for a facility at Bisley that will be used for generations?鈥�
But former Tory sports minister Lord Moynihan, who is chairman of the British Olympic Association and a director of the 2012 organising committee, said holding the shooting at Bisley would require 鈥渉ighly sensitive development鈥� on greenbelt land.
Lord Davies of Oldham said: 鈥淭he Olympic Games are London's Olympic Games and should take place as far as possible within the confines of London."
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