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Future of the WFCG? What‘s your preference?


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It's Baggio

John Robertson
Two have recently been sold by the looks if it.

 

Cloughie1975

Stuart Pearce
Another way of looking at it is to say about one month's wages for one player will buy all the properties that would require demolition. Small change.

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I’ve been thinking of that for a while without going into the exact mathematics.

To buy the required properties should be peanuts for a Premier League club-didn’t Liverpool do the same to allow
the further expansion of Anfield?
 

Flaggers

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I’ve been thinking of that for a while without going into the exact mathematics.

To buy the required properties should be peanuts for a Premier League club-didn’t Liverpool do the same to allow
the further expansion of Anfield?
Not so much "bought", more "looked the other way while a systematic campaign of intimidation took place resulting in the last residents moving out of the street and...oh look all the houses are empty, how wonderfully convenient for our stadium expansion plans"
 

Flaggers

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I’ve been thinking of that for a while without going into the exact mathematics.

To buy the required properties should be peanuts for a Premier League club-didn’t Liverpool do the same to allow
the further expansion of Anfield?
A bit like the totally coincidental fire that coincidentally took place at a factory that was coincidentally holding up Spurs new stadium development, by coincidence
 

Flaggers

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Lady Penelope

Viv Anderson
Buying an adjoining property is one thing. Planning permission is needed to (a) demolish it, and (b) for whatever you propose will be there instead.
To develop a huge stadium in WB means that you have to be prepared to play a very long game.
 

redun

First Team Squad
But we don't need to intimidate anyone do we. The club has planning for the scheme as submitted. House clearance would just make the site more user friendly that's all and could be done without anyone having valid objections.

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Notcher

Ian Bowyer
I’ve been thinking of that for a while without going into the exact mathematics.

To buy the required properties should be peanuts for a Premier League club-didn’t Liverpool do the same to allow
the further expansion of Anfield?
It most definitely is if you take on the premise that they're mortgaged and not even bought outright. That would roughly represent a £4500/£5000 monthly repayment for 2x £400k properties.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's definitely affordable for a PL football club

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valspoodle

Ian Bowyer
Not so much "bought", more "looked the other way while a systematic campaign of intimidation took place resulting in the last residents moving out of the street and...oh look all the houses are empty, how wonderfully convenient for our stadium expansion plans"
When I did my 92 about ten years ago, they were planning the new stand at Anfield and all those house were rotting waiting to be demolished. Still one or two inmates, but, as you say, not getting much joy.
 

Mr H

Viv Anderson
Buying an adjoining property is one thing. Planning permission is needed to (a) demolish it, and (b) for whatever you propose will be there instead.
To develop a huge stadium in WB means that you have to be prepared to play a very long game.
Unfortunately true.
 

Mr H

Viv Anderson
Two have recently been sold by the looks if it.

Let’s hope we have bought them.
 

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
But we don't need to intimidate anyone do we. The club has planning for the scheme as submitted. House clearance would just make the site more user friendly that's all and could be done without anyone having valid objections.
It's future expansion or (preferably) complete replacement of the Bridgford End where problems will really arise. In addition to the two it already owns, the club would probably need to acquire four or five further properties at the top end of Colwick Road (and probably no.27 Rosebery Avenue, which abutts the Taylor Stand/BE corner) for demolitian purposes, as well as buying out light & air provision from the deed registers of most, if not all of the other properties on that road and possibly (depending on the height of a new structure) Orston, Thoroton and Hawksworth Roads?
 
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Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Yes, agree. Shame we don’t but Daniel Taylor was explicit in the Athletic recently that a) we don’t own lots of houses and b) we only own the 2-3 historic properties we’ve always owned and used to house youth team/academy players.
Indeed H.
I recently wasted a few minutes I'll never get back again listening to that clueless Wolfie bloke on FFTV completely misleading his flock by claiming, in the authoritive way that he spouts off, that Forest "own most of the houses" surrounding the CG. F*cking idiot.
 

redun

First Team Squad
The club have just borrowed £80 million secured against the stadium from an American equity fund.

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Shearstone

Derby delenda est
The club have just borrowed £80 million secured against the stadium from an American equity fund.

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Conspiracy time. Spurs are paying £80mil for MGW (or someone is) but in instalments, borrowing the £80mil means we can spend the cash quickly on a replacement(s).
 

pk44

A. Trialist
A couple of plans on the application for new stand show which properties / areas the club currently owns. Blue line on the images. Not sure why they differ on different drawings, but the second plan shows the club owns 21, 23 & 24. Obviously they could have purchased more since then. The drawing is dated 2022.
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Notcher

Ian Bowyer
A couple of plans on the application for new stand show which properties / areas the club currently owns. Blue line on the images. Not sure why they differ on different drawings, but the second plan shows the club owns 21, 23 & 24. Obviously they could have purchased more since then. The drawing is dated 2022.
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They've owned those houses for donkeys years. They were the youth team digs.

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Lady Penelope

Viv Anderson
A couple of plans on the application for new stand show which properties / areas the club currently owns. Blue line on the images. Not sure why they differ on different drawings, but the second plan shows the club owns 21, 23 & 24. Obviously they could have purchased more since then. The drawing is dated 2022.
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If they haven't tried to buy further properties on Colwick Rd and Roseberry Avenue then you have to wonder why not? Agreements could be in place along the lines of "when we get planning permission we will buy your house for x5 above the market rate" and that would be a sensible route to follow, but the club have not made their intentions public re the BE redevelopment.
certainly the corner of the PT and the BRE needs to be made a through route so that it will be possible to walk around the whole stadium, and to do that houses on Roseberry will have to be purchased and demolished.
 

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
If they haven't tried to buy further properties on Colwick Rd and Roseberry Avenue then you have to wonder why not? Agreements could be in place along the lines of "when we get planning permission we will buy your house for x5 above the market rate" and that would be a sensible route to follow, but the club have not made their intentions public re the BE redevelopment.
certainly the corner of the PT and the BRE needs to be made a through route so that it will be possible to walk around the whole stadium, and to do that houses on Roseberry will have to be purchased and demolished.
No.27 Rosebery almost certainly.
 

Mr H

Viv Anderson
Just a thought: Palace used compulsory purchase orders to get rid of houses for their new stand and Liverpool did the same for their new, expanded, stand.

I’m sure there is no political support for this in RBC whereas Palace and Liverpool are/were being supported politically as are Leeds and Birmingham with their very impressive plans.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Leeds get spades in the ground before Forest as they’re not being held up by the complexities of building in a dense, residential, environment.

And the boat club relocation…
 

Steve B

Jack Burkitt
Two have recently been sold by the looks if it.

Bought by a D Levy from Upper Edmonton
 
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