Regent’s Park Golf & Tennis School

This used to be a brilliant and very popular sports club at the north of Regents Park that offered golf practice range (the only one in the vicinity of 3 miles or so) as well as three tennis courts. I used to practice my golf swings here almost daily and played tennis frequently as well.
However, once their long lease ran out, the park authorities decided (for some weird reason only known to them) to demolish the place and award the area to the five-​a-​side football company. This idea was very unpopular with local residents, and many turned up to openly protest against this. Thankfully, the planning permission for the new development was rejected in December 2007, but the school hasn’t reopened.
Its facilities stand abandoned, in disarray, which is an enormous waste, given how popular the place was. Hopefully, it will reopen eventually, or at least they will allow some other useful project to be developed on its site.