It can work at Old Trafford but remember, Old Trafford is a terrible ground to watch football from. The stands are very shallow meaning that supporters end up a long way from the pitch. The new Lane will have to have to be steeper in order to fit into the plot.
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New Stadium and Training Ground - Pg 104 Northumberland Park master plan
- Thread starter Gutter Boy
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It can work at Old Trafford but remember, Old Trafford is a terrible ground to watch football from. The stands are very shallow meaning that supporters end up a long way from the pitch. The new Lane will have to have to be steeper in order to fit into the plot.
Steed Train
Clive Wilson
Not particularly relevant now we got the Northumberland Project back up and running but an interesting article on the whole OS fiasco
http://www1.skysports.com/olympics/story/15234/7523698
http://www1.skysports.com/olympics/story/15234/7523698
"The architect who masterminded the original Olympic plan has called for an urgent review of the stadium legacy plans.
After a Sky Sports News investigation, Steve Lawrence admitted that he is the man behind the anonymous complaint to the EU Commission, which the government blamed on the collapsing of the stadium legacy deal with West Ham FC."
Funny, every West Ham fan has been saying that it was clearly sneaky, underhanded, evil Spurs that made that anonymous complaint #-o
"Was my complaint the reason for pulling the plug on it? I'm not sure if that's true. I don't know all the details of the judicial review but I think it was due be decided the following week. My feeling is that they used the complaint as an excuse for pulling out in advance of the judicial review (with Spurs and Leyton Orient) as they knew they were going to lose."
Wouldn't surprise me one little bit. Any excuse to stop us officially revealing what perfection their bidding and selection process was.
After a Sky Sports News investigation, Steve Lawrence admitted that he is the man behind the anonymous complaint to the EU Commission, which the government blamed on the collapsing of the stadium legacy deal with West Ham FC."
Funny, every West Ham fan has been saying that it was clearly sneaky, underhanded, evil Spurs that made that anonymous complaint #-o
"Was my complaint the reason for pulling the plug on it? I'm not sure if that's true. I don't know all the details of the judicial review but I think it was due be decided the following week. My feeling is that they used the complaint as an excuse for pulling out in advance of the judicial review (with Spurs and Leyton Orient) as they knew they were going to lose."
Wouldn't surprise me one little bit. Any excuse to stop us officially revealing what perfection their bidding and selection process was.
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Howard Webb
Clive Wilson
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
We're ten points above Arsenal and Chelsea.
I know it's not on topic, i just like pointing it out.
spasm
Gudni Bergsson
thank you for pointing that out & i don't blame you one bit..=D>
As far as I can tell this is basically it:
We've got revised planning permission to build the new stadium, without us having to pay for all the S106 costs (saving ?ú16 million ish), and with permission to build extra flats and sell them all at full price which will make us a lot of extra profit to help pay off the stadium.
We still need to arrange financing with the banks / find a naming rights sponsor (but the new S106 should allow us to go full steam ahead with this now).
We are going to submit two more planning amendments which, I think, are for the new "Wembley Way" style walkway from the train station to the new stadium, and possibly some changes to the stadium too (rumours are a slight increase in capacity and removal of the listed buildings, but it could end up being neither).
With the ease that the changes were voted through at the meeting on Monday, I think it's expected our further amendments to the plans will be passed through without a fuss either (unless we do something crazy like redesign the stadium with an 80,000 capacity
).
I think that just about covers it. The supermarket should start building in the summer, and assuming we can get the bank finance and naming rights sorted out, the new stadium should start building in summer 2013.
I'm sure someone will point it out if anything in the above isn't correct
We've got revised planning permission to build the new stadium, without us having to pay for all the S106 costs (saving ?ú16 million ish), and with permission to build extra flats and sell them all at full price which will make us a lot of extra profit to help pay off the stadium.
We still need to arrange financing with the banks / find a naming rights sponsor (but the new S106 should allow us to go full steam ahead with this now).
We are going to submit two more planning amendments which, I think, are for the new "Wembley Way" style walkway from the train station to the new stadium, and possibly some changes to the stadium too (rumours are a slight increase in capacity and removal of the listed buildings, but it could end up being neither).
With the ease that the changes were voted through at the meeting on Monday, I think it's expected our further amendments to the plans will be passed through without a fuss either (unless we do something crazy like redesign the stadium with an 80,000 capacity
).I think that just about covers it. The supermarket should start building in the summer, and assuming we can get the bank finance and naming rights sorted out, the new stadium should start building in summer 2013.
I'm sure someone will point it out if anything in the above isn't correct
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Not relevant maybe but what a turn up! The architect of the OS actually calling for the complete removal of the athletics track and suggesting that athletics can make do with a 'centre for athletics' on the periphery of the stadium instead.
"I believe if we construct a centre for athletics on the land where the warm up track will be and then allow the stadium to be converted for football only use, possibly with joint tenancy for West Ham and Leyton Orient, now Spurs have withdrawn from the process, I think we have a project where everyone can win. My recommendation is to take a step back, take a good look at it and then I think we can wind up with a genuine legacy."
Spurs vindicated.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I think we all knew levy was right about them wanting to remove the track. Although i would have stopped supporting us if we had gone there i find it funny they might go ahead and remove the track but be left with a worse stadium then if we had built ours there, think we were offering to do a lot for community events.
Bullet
Andy Thompson
That's what I was suggesting about 100 pages back on the old board - rather than Spurs sorting out Crystal Palace Athletics or wherever, they could just convert the warm up track or velodrome or indoor bowls arena into an athletics track and change the main Olympic stadium into Tottenham's new ground.
Or the opposite, leave the Olympic Stadium in tact with it's rickety stands, and build the new Spurs stadium on top of the indoor bowls arena or fencing, or weightlifting or archery or whatever other useless facilities there were.
Anyway, doesn't really matter any more.
Bullet
Andy Thompson
Easy tiger, I was just trying to help.
You said "AnthonyG from arsenal-mania, i hope you read this" and then called him a "stupid thick clam" - so I was just pointing out you might want to correct your post, so as not to appear the same.
unknown
Erik Edman
Would be interesting to see how West Ham would be able to
1. Buy the land.
2. Build and pay for a stadium.
3. Get past legally... that the stadium has to have a running track for the next 99 years. And how Tottenham will sue for the difference between the cost of current construction to what was perceived the cost of moving to the Olympic site.
Personally, the stadium will be knocked down after the 2017 Worlds and in its place more homes built, with an arena built with retrackable seating for 35k Max where the warm up track is for Orient and West Ham to share.
1. Buy the land.
2. Build and pay for a stadium.
3. Get past legally... that the stadium has to have a running track for the next 99 years. And how Tottenham will sue for the difference between the cost of current construction to what was perceived the cost of moving to the Olympic site.
Personally, the stadium will be knocked down after the 2017 Worlds and in its place more homes built, with an arena built with retrackable seating for 35k Max where the warm up track is for Orient and West Ham to share.
unknown
Erik Edman
No, that render was drawn mistakenly without the buildings, there is though rumour that we may later ask that they be removed.
The public square is not as prominent as the very first render but what is there is still available to be used 364 days of the year, so I guess the public square still exists.
unknown
Erik Edman
[video=youtube;vrXTt8vFRzA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXTt8vFRzA[/video]
Lyons new stadium, anyone else see a wall type stand behind the goal on 58 secs, It seems like the boxes stop, as does ours on our design, but the stand is better incorporated with the stands either side, with the top tier continuous.
Lyons new stadium, anyone else see a wall type stand behind the goal on 58 secs, It seems like the boxes stop, as does ours on our design, but the stand is better incorporated with the stands either side, with the top tier continuous.
metalgear
Luka Modric
what chance the govt will go back on their decision, and redraw plans according to a football-only venue, and west ham re-enter to lease/own?