The World Famous City Ground - Home of the PROPER WORLD‘S OLDEST LEAGUE CLUB

[GreeksBearingGifts]

Complex project or not, for me the real reason the deal was unblocked was your promotion to the Premier. The councils realized that choosing alternative options was now feasible for you, because you had the money for it. So they caved. Too cynical?

 

[Trents]

Complex project or not, for me the real reason the deal was unblocked was your promotion to the Premier. The councils realized that choosing alternative options was now feasible for you, because you had the money for it. So they caved. Too cynical?

Promotion and the subsequent obvious demand has certainly played a part IMO.

 

[Redemption]

Complex project or not, for me the real reason the deal was unblocked was your promotion to the Premier. The councils realized that choosing alternative options was now feasible for you, because you had the money for it. So they caved. Too cynical?

No. Definitely too cynical.

The last piece of the jigsaw, this week, was the Highways removing their objections after seeing revised plans.

It's just been a long process to deal with all the various bits of the development.

Some simple things along the way, are a good example of this. The club agreeing to double the number of people who cycle to the ground on a match-day. It seems easy to agree to that as a condition. But in practice, it requires a bit of desk based-research and a model to show it can be achieved. It may be ineffective, but it has to be shown how will be achieved because of how it informs a bigger picture of match-day air pollution.

And the number of micro-stipulations like that plus the bigger stuff around the residential development just took time to work through.

if the promotion mattered, it was probably a minor instigator of faster working. I wouldn't think any more than this.

 

[sammy the snake]

Really exciting times for us. In few seasons I'll get to visit the WFCG again!

Thet need a rethink on the BC stand. Loads of room and entirely feasible for a 3 tier.

 

[Trents]

Really exciting times for us. In few seasons I'll get to visit the WFCG again!

Thet need a rethink on the BC stand. Loads of room and entirely feasible for a 3 tier.

Some stands are designed with possible further improvement included. I expect the BC would cost just as much to rebuild better as it would to try and add to it.

 

[sammy the snake]

Some stands are designed with possible further improvement included. I expect the BC would cost just as much to rebuild better as it would to try and add to it.

Yes I know it'll need a complete rebuild. The same footings from previous etc.

But the scope could be huge for a new stand. You could get a shops, bars, restaurants at the back. Imagine that

 

[Trents]

Yes I know it'll need a complete rebuild. The same footings from previous etc.

But the scope could be huge for a new stand. You could get a shops, bars, restaurants at the back. Imagine that

Yep and as you say, plenty of room behind the current one too

 

[Harvey]

I can't see any way that could be achieved without demolishing the current stadium completely and rebuilding it

 

[Flaggers]

You could - demolish the main stand, and rebuild in a squared-off C shape so the "touchline" parallel to the river is comprised of the existing Trent End and an arm of the "C" of the new main stand. Ditto the Bridgford side.

Would take the ground out of commission for bloody ages though.

Also it'll always be the Trent End, never the Trent Side.

 

[Trents]

You could - demolish the main stand, and rebuild in a squared-off C shape so the "touchline" parallel to the river is comprised of the existing Trent End and an arm of the "C" of the new main stand. Ditto the Bridgford side.

Would take the ground out of commission for bloody ages though.

Also it'll always be the Trent End, never the Trent Side.

Rotating would certainly solve the Bridgford End sunlight for housing bollocks. Once the big new PT stand is sorted, squaring off that corner was the next plan anyway IIRC.

 

[Otis Redding]

No offence to the bloke in the seat next to yours, but he was speaking utter nonsense.

 

[Redemption]

It was mooted at one point, as part of the 2018 bid thinking.

It would have involved purchasing the Environment Agency site and filling in the waterway or at least converting it to a culvert.

It was superseded by Gamston, which was far less complicated.

 

[Dirk Furtull]

Regardless of the huge expense and disruption, what would be the point?

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[Rzar]

Regardless of the huge expense and disruption, what would be the point?

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You could rebuild the whole thing like Spurs did.

 

[Deleted User]

What is the waterway anyway, and where does it go? Doesn't look like an insurmountable thing to deal with. The environment agency should all be working from home to save the planet, buy-bulldoze it, and we do a spurs and go design heavy. Can we have beer glasses that fill from the bottom and those big sausage rolls please?

The New City Ground - has a ring to it.

 

[Raymondo Ponte']

You've let me know !

It was an off the cuff remark mate

 

[Deleted User]

Anything can happen.