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[Rorschach]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

Spurs fans make bomb threats at metal firm holding up new Tottenham statium
http://www.london24.com/news/spurs_...rm_holding_up_new_tottenham_statium_1_3768292


Hmm...not sure I can trust an article that can't spell stadium but it's getting a bit unsavoury now if the quotes are true.

 

[billyiddo]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

I wonder if we'd float the idea to the relevant powers about playing our year away from WHL in the States

 

[NWND]

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This is all very depressing. I just hope that if/when Archway lose in court, that's the end of it. But who can tell in this wonderful world? Meanwhile we can't afford Danny Wellbeck, and who knows what next year? And to top it all, I've got Etherington as 'my player', the man who thought West Ham were a bigger club than us.

Mind you, they have a large stadium to move into, while what, we're playing at MK Dons, maybe Matty was onto something

For me, West Ham getting the OS instead of us was a massive coup for them, and as our trophyless years trundle on, the more that decision hurts.

Not really. Under the original proposals where they got a free stadium and 40m of public money to convert it into a specialist football stadium then yes, it would have been a massive coup.

After our legal challenge they are tenants which mean they will not gain anything near to the potential income from match days and other uses as they would have done being owners. Plus it has to remain an athletics stadium which means it's not ideal for views and atmosphere

 

[AberYid]

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Edit: Wrong thread

 

[Lemonade Money]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

Spurs fans make bomb threats at metal firm holding up new Tottenham statium
http://www.london24.com/news/spurs_...rm_holding_up_new_tottenham_statium_1_3768292


Hmm...not sure I can trust an article that can't spell stadium but it's getting a bit unsavoury now if the quotes are true.

 

[greatwhitenorf]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

For all the harping about the length of time taken before Eric Pickles issued the CPO, this appeal process is where the rubber meets the road. If Pickles has done a proper job of it and the CPO is found to be valid, there's a lot of Spurs fans who will need to give the man his due credit.

Perhaps name a tea and biscuit concession for him in the new stadium?

 

[Superhudd]

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I would have laughed hard if they said they keep getting pizza's and buckets of chicken.

 

[Gutter Boy]

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For all the harping about the length of time taken before Eric Pickles issued the CPO, this appeal process is where the rubber meets the road. If Pickles has done a proper job of it and the CPO is found to be valid, there's a lot of Spurs fans who will need to give the man his due credit.

Perhaps name a tea and biscuit concession for him in the new stadium?

A cheese and Pickles pie?

 

[chicken_badge]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

For all the harping about the length of time taken before Eric Pickles issued the CPO, this appeal process is where the rubber meets the road. If Pickles has done a proper job of it and the CPO is found to be valid, there's a lot of Spurs fans who will need to give the man his due credit.

Indeed....

"Local MP David Lammy raised a question to planning minister Nick Boles why Spurs were waiting fourteen months, when they had been told a decision would be made in three, and also suggested in Pickles' allegiances might be a factor.

"You have made much in the House of accelerating development on brownfield land and (Mr Pickles) has said a lot about speeding up planning," he said.

"Can you say why the development for Spurs, which is currently with the department on CPO, has been with the department for 14 months, might you reach a decision shortly and can you confirm (Mr Pickles) is in fact not an Arsenal supporter?"

Boles replied: "I would never dare tread into the question of people's football loyalties, particularly not at this time.

"I do understand your frustrations on this. It hasn't entirely always been with the department because we have had to refer back to parties on some very complex questions.

"I am keen to make a decision as soon as possible but I know you will want that decision to be a decision that holds up in court and therefore it is important to make sure it's robust."

 

[indianspur]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

it could be 6 more years before we move in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2753835/Tottenham-warned-proposed-new-ground-shelved-SIX-YEARS.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Archway dont want to settle, so like the lawyer says they could simply go all the way to european courts. There is nothing stopping them is there.

like i said earlier, surely its a better idea to revise the plans and design a stadium that fits into the land where the current WHL sits. Fcuk Archway

 

[Jordinho]

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Don't want to settle? That's exactly what they want, but only on extortionate terms. Every appeal adds 100s of additional k's to their legal bills. They simply can't afford to end up as losers at the end of it all.

 

[paxtonwolf]

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it could be 6 more years before we move in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2753835/Tottenham-warned-proposed-new-ground-shelved-SIX-YEARS.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Archway dont want to settle, so like the lawyer says they could simply go all the way to european courts. There is nothing stopping them is there.

like i said earlier, surely its a better idea to revise the plans and design a stadium that fits into the land where the current WHL sits. Fcuk Archway

Been saying this for ages. Would have loved us to have been able to do something like Saudi Sportswashing Machine did at SJP and add an extra tier on a couple of the stands. May not be a 56k stadium,but a damn sight better than 36k

 

[chicken_badge]

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Been saying this for ages. Would have loved us to have been able to do something like Saudi Sportswashing Machine did at SJP and add an extra tier on a couple of the stands. May not be a 56k stadium,but a damn sight better than 36k

All went wrong with Irvin Scholars car crash of an East Stand. If that had done properly we would have had something to match the West Stand and probably something to work with for the North and South. So much wasted space.

From Coventry City 1988 through to the two stupid dumbass pillars, from the bland Worcester Road exterior through to the ridiculous camera position. What a disaster.

 

[jimmyb]

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All went wrong with Irvin Scholars car crash of an East Stand. If that had done properly we would have had something to match the West Stand and probably something to work with for the North and South. So much wasted space.

From Coventry City 1988 through to the two stupid dumbass pillars, from the bland Worcester Road exterior through to the ridiculous camera position. What a disaster.

The Worcester Avenue facade is the only passably appealing facade of the four stands. It remains largely the same facade, after all, that was designed and built by Archibald Leitch. Only the window frames and the odd lick of paint are new (at least, late 1980's new).

The Worcester Avenue facade is built of London stock brick. Has a touch of class and gravitas about it. The Park Lane and Paxton, by contrast, have horribly cheap looking cladding that has aged badly and the West stand facade largely consists of ugly 1980's tinted glass. Naff.

 

[greatwhitenorf]

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Been saying this for ages. Would have loved us to have been able to do something like Saudi Sportswashing Machine did at SJP and add an extra tier on a couple of the stands. May not be a 56k stadium,but a damn sight better than 36k

Well, please stop saying it. Saudi Sportswashing Machine had a bigger footprint of land and a greater civic willingness to work with.

First off, no matter how protracted the Archway deal becomes, it's not ever going to happen.

Secondly, from personal professional experience, you really wouldn't want such a patchwork solution if you truly care about the club. The costs are high, the returns are low, fans are still left in cramped, inadequate circumstances. The benefits to the club wouldn't be sufficient to make a difference in Spurs ability to compete with better-financed rivals. It inevitably only proves to be a low-value, short-term solution.

The deal will run it's course, whatever way money and willpower dictate. But they will not be slapping band-aid solutions onto WHL.

 

[The Fatman]

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How long does Archway have before lodging paper with the high court?

 

[indianspur]

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Well, please stop saying it. Saudi Sportswashing Machine had a bigger footprint of land and a greater civic willingness to work with.

First off, no matter how protracted the Archway deal becomes, it's not ever going to happen.

Secondly, from personal professional experience, you really wouldn't want such a patchwork solution if you truly care about the club. The costs are high, the returns are low, fans are still left in cramped, inadequate circumstances. The benefits to the club wouldn't be sufficient to make a difference in Spurs ability to compete with better-financed rivals. It inevitably only proves to be a low-value, short-term solution.

The deal will run it's course, whatever way money and willpower dictate. But they will not be slapping band-aid solutions onto WHL.

you cannot be sure of that. if this process goes all the way to the european courts you dont know what final decision they make. Archway dont want the money, they want to stay right where they are

no, the idea is to completely flatten the current WHL and then to use that area of land to build a new stadium that fits into every inch of space......surely the designers can come up with a solution, a new stadium design that gives us the bigger capacity as well as the extra corporate facilities.

Anyway the current stadium plan is old now, what 6 or 7 years old? Lets rip it up and start again.

 

[indianspur]

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Don't want to settle? That's exactly what they want, but only on extortionate terms. Every appeal adds 100s of additional k's to their legal bills. They simply can't afford to end up as losers at the end of it all.

they are being privately backed, they must be....take a guess at any number of parties who want to stop Spurs from progressing

even if Spurs offered them 15-20 mill, i dont think Archway will settle. They seem to want to stay and are being helped privately

 

[mephitis]

Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed

The Worcester Avenue facade is the only passably appealing facade of the four stands. It remains largely the same facade, after all, that was designed and built by Archibald Leitch. Only the window frames and the odd lick of paint are new (at least, late 1980's new).

The Worcester Avenue facade is built of London stock brick. Has a touch of class and gravitas about it. The Park Lane and Paxton, by contrast, have horribly cheap looking cladding that has aged badly and the West stand facade largely consists of ugly 1980's tinted glass. Naff.

Definitely this

 

[Kandi1977]

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Anyway the current stadium plan is old now, what 6 or 7 years old? Lets rip it up and start again.

Ehhhh..... That's exactly what we've done! The original design is "scrapped", and they appointed Popuolus as new designers about a year ago.