Tottenham have revealed that they plan to demolish the Olympic Stadium and turn the 80,000-capacity athletics venue into a 60,000-seat purpose-built football stadium if they win the bid.
Spurs are up against West Ham United to take over the site following the 2012 London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and they have now bared their plans to make the venue more of 'their own' once Olympic obligations are complete.
West Ham have said they will reduce it to a 60,000-capacity venue but keep it with the current set up and Spurs feel that a club which attracts around 35,000 to their Boleyn Ground at Upton Park would find it difficult to make the move to an athletics venue worthwhile.
"There'd be nothing worse than, five years down the line, for a failing club not being able to meet its obligations because it's not getting 60,000, fans saying there's no atmosphere," said Spurs' architect and vice-president David Keirle.
But MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, feels demolishing the venue would be a complete and utter waste of money.
"It would be astonishing in these hard pressed times if the government and [London mayor] Boris Johnson will approve a bid that sees over half a billion pounds of public money down the drain after just a month," Lammy said in a statement.
"Now we know the full details of the Tottenham bid, I will be writing to Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office to demand an investigation if they are named the preferred bidder.
"I fully support the money spent on the Olympic Stadium, but for it to be only used for a month before being demolished is a diabolical waste of public money."
