STEVE Parish says Palace are still likely to redevelop Selhurst Park but has put plans on the back-burner while the club prepares for the top-flight.
Palace chairman Parish has said he is always working to push forward plans with the ground but is currently busy trying to build a squad for the new season.
Parish said: "We can't really think about that at the moment, there is so much work going on behind-the-scenes.
"We've got to improve all our press facilities and we've got to fit 70km of cable in the ground for broadcasters. I'm ringing clubs and agents all the time. There's so much to do.
"We will probably redevelop what's there but our priority has got to be getting ready for the new season at the moment; everything else is academic."
Plans for the club to return to its spiritual home at Crystal Palace Park were shelved after opposition from Bromley Council and residents.
After Palace obtained promotion to the Premier League, Parish said the club would focus on rebuilding Selhurst with support from Croydon Council.
Croydon North MP Steve Reed met with Palace Chief Executive Phil Alexander last Friday to discuss potential plans for the ground.
Mr Reed said: "It's all in very early stages but if we could create a Premier League-standard stadium with some public leisure facilities and conference facilities, then that would all mean jobs for the area.
"The club know they would have to work with their neighbours and I will work very closely with them."
But former Palace chairman Ron Noades remains sceptical as to whether a redevelopment will happen soon.
Noades said work on the ground, which he started with The Holmesdale Stand in 1994, should have been finished years ago.
He told the Advertiser: "I originally intended to turn it into a 42,000 seater and those plans could still be continued.
"The Main Stand and the Arthur Wait need redeveloping and the Whitehorse Lane Stand probably does too.
"I'll believe it when I see it. Everyone since me has had these grand visions. The new owners probably have a better chance than most.
"I know a lot of things about the potential problems with redeveloping the ground.
"They should come and ask me."
Sainsbury's role in the redevelopment of the ground is said to be key but Noades said he would advise the owners to "hold Sainsbury's to ransom".
He added: "I wouldn't work with them. When I bought the club they were a nightmare.
"I don't know if the owners know or not but when I bought the club I bought the airspace over Sainsbury's so you can build on top of that and forget them.
"That's the sort of thing they would know if they rang me.
"These owners have a better chance than ever to rebuild that ground because of the money from promotion and Palace will never develop as a club until the ground is sorted."
