The Palace Site and Park

1 August 1951

On the 1 August 1951 the Crystal Palace Trust was dissolved and responsibility for Crystal Palace Park passed into the hands of the London County Council (LCC) and eventually to the Greater London Council (GLC).

Much work was done by LCC and GLC staff in the Park to maintain the terraces, subway, and dinosaurs. The only really tangible large scale developments in the Park since 1936 have been the construction of the television aerial at the northern end of Crystal Palace Parade and the National Sports Centre in the heart of the Park; both of these were built in the late 1950's.

The site of the Crystal Palace has always given great cause for concern with no organisation or individual coming up with any really viable ideas about what to do with it. Upon the demise of the GLC on 1 April 1986 the London Residuary Body passed responsibility for the Park to the London Borough of Bromley.