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

[Tnewton_1988]

So like normal then

Once you’re at BBC island you’re restricted on route away from CG, due to Canal Street being restricted.

 

[Joe Baker's Dog]

I must have missed this. But according to the NEP 'The club recently purchased the freehold for the Environment Agency's Trentside offices, right next to the City Ground, for £5 million'...............

 

[Otis Redding]

I must have missed this. But according to the NEP 'The club recently purchased the freehold for the Environment Agency's Trentside offices, right next to the City Ground, for £5 million'...............

It's been fairly widely commented on earlier in the thread Joe.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Post lifted it from here.

 

[B35]

Plans to demolish three West Bridgford houses for City Ground redevelopment | West Bridgford Wire

Nottingham Forest has applied to demolish three residential properties near the City Ground as part of enabling works linked to its wider stadium

westbridgfordwire.com

 

[Notcher]

I must have missed this. But according to the NEP 'The club recently purchased the freehold for the Environment Agency's Trentside offices, right next to the City Ground, for £5 million'...............

Yeah that's correct. There's been discussions in this thread hypothesisisng what we might we might be doing with it. The land has also been purchased.

Still no word on whether Marinakis has bought the freehold to the land the ground sits on though.

 

[Notcher]

It's been fairly widely commented on earlier in the thread Joe.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Post lifted it from here.

Yeah it was a good few days ago. I think it might have even been me that posted it.

 

[uredsuns]

Still no word on whether Marinakis has bought the freehold to the land the ground sits on though.

We signed 250 year lease in 2019, so we dont need to worry about that too much at the minute.

Nottingham Forest secure new 250-year lease on the City Ground

Nottingham Forest have secured a new 250-year lease to enable them to redevelop the City Ground.

www.skysports.com

 

[Notcher]

We signed 250 year lease in 2019, so we dont need to worry about that too much at the minute.

Nottingham Forest secure new 250-year lease on the City Ground

Nottingham Forest have secured a new 250-year lease to enable them to redevelop the City Ground.

www.skysports.com

The freehold had been offered to Forest a couple of years for around £10M IIRC. I know that forest said at the time their conditional agreement to purchase was based upon the relevant permissions being granted relating to development. Maybe we'll see that happen after September.

 

[incident]

Plans to demolish three West Bridgford houses for City Ground redevelopment | West Bridgford Wire

Nottingham Forest has applied to demolish three residential properties near the City Ground as part of enabling works linked to its wider stadium

westbridgfordwire.com

Weirdly, the NEP version of that article claims it's 5 houses - adding 17 and 19 Colwick Road, which I don't think anyone has yet reported as being owned by the club, and aren't on the demolition plan submitted to Rushcliffe Council. Wonder if they're getting confused with the recently purchased houses in Rosebery Avenue.

Nottingham Forest to demolish five houses for 'world-class' stadium expansion

The club's planners say it will help the long-awaited redevelopment get under way

www.nottinghampost.com

 

[Lady Penelope]

I don't make a habit of praising the Tories, but their decision to vacate County Hall and move to a smaller, purpose-built, environmentally-friendly new-build near Hucknall was a sensible one prior to them losing control of the County Council to Reform who, immediately reversed the decision. For a party that boasts about removing waste and excess to reduce costs for the taxpayer, mothballing the new building in order to continue working - and purely because of its faded prestige - in one that is no longer financially sustainable to an almost criminal extent was crass and stupid. The place probably needs demolishing or, at best, needs millions spent on it to make it viable. I wouldn't trust a Reform council to do anything that favours any other entity or organisation other than itself.

A fine summary.

 

[Notcher]

A fine summary.

Otis is one of the few decent labour voters

 

[Lady Penelope]

If they didn't direct people onto LBB and then also likewise with TB and instead used the suspension bridge and the new bridge instead it would probably help.

The next bridge has to be a road one and then probably TB could be closed or limited.

I think you can also cross the A60 under the bridge which would help again if people needed to get to the other side, not having to cross with traffic.

A road and tram bridge between the A 52 and Netherfield would make a huge difference, every day of the week. Gunthorpe bridge is heavily congested now and with all the new developments on both sides of the river, the fact that there is not a crossing (other than by train) between Lady Bay and Gunthorpe is a nonsense.

I'm not proposing a massive road building programme by the way, rather the opposite. However, congestion means pollution, inefficiency and more. While we're at it then, another bridge from Barton to Attenborough would be great.

There is a reason why there are so few bridges on the Trent, the geology makes the build expensive. Only this week that strange woman who is the Lincs Mayor was, quite rightly, bemoaning the fact that there's is nothing to help the traffic volumes on the Gainsborough Trent Bridge. Dunham to the south (privately owned toll bridge on the A 57) and Keadby (a bascule road and rail bridge that doesn't open any more) to the north.

 

[Lady Penelope]

You're right but the last one took seven years from initial planning.

The design could be replicated but there would the bridge 'land' on the Meadow Lane side? Homes England have, I believe, bought the land between LBB and Notts.

 

[It's Baggio]

Weirdly, the NEP version of that article claims it's 5 houses - adding 17 and 19 Colwick Road, which I don't think anyone has yet reported as being owned by the club, and aren't on the demolition plan submitted to Rushcliffe Council. Wonder if they're getting confused with the recently purchased houses in Rosebery Avenue.

Nottingham Forest to demolish five houses for 'world-class' stadium expansion

The club's planners say it will help the long-awaited redevelopment get under way

www.nottinghampost.com

There are two demolition applications submitted, one that covers 21, 23 Colwick Rd & 27 Rosebery Ave (26/01134/DEMOL), the other covers 17 & 19 Colwick Rd (26/01135/DEMOL). I cant paste the links but the reference no's will take you to the applications on the portal.

Can't see anything suggesting 17 & 19 have been sold, so it must be very recent. No mention of 24 Colwick Rd on the other side of the street, which is one the club have owned for a while.

 

[Trents]

That doesn't look quite right, would be stealing half the gardens from 17-21 Rosebery. Would be more like this:

 

[Chairman Mo]

Maintenance costs run into the millions and it's riddled with asbestos.

It's the personification of Reform.

 

[incident]

There are two demolition applications submitted, one that covers 21, 23 Colwick Rd & 27 Rosebery Ave (26/01134/DEMOL), the other covers 17 & 19 Colwick Rd (26/01135/DEMOL). I cant paste the links but the reference no's will take you to the applications on the portal.

Can't see anything suggesting 17 & 19 have been sold, so it must be very recent. No mention of 24 Colwick Rd on the other side of the street, which is one the club have owned for a while.

Cheers. To be honest, I'm just shocked that (what remains of) The Post have published something that's both accurate and (given that the latter application was only lodged a couple days ago) timely.

 

[Dirk Furtull]

Otis is one of the few decent labour voters

There are more than one on here.

 

[YellowBelly Red]

A road and tram bridge between the A 52 and nether field would make a huge difference, every day of the week. Gunthorpe bridge is heavily congested now and with all the new developments on both sides of the river, the fact that there is not a crossing (other than by train) between Lady Bay and Gunthorpe is a nonsense.

I'm not proposing a massive road building programme by the way, rather the opposite. However, congestion means pollution, inefficiency and more. While we're at it then, another bridge from Barton to Attenborough would be great. T

here is a reason why there are so few bridges on the Trent, the geology makes the build expensive. Only this week that strange woman who is the Lincs Mayor was, quite rightly, bemoaning the fact that there's is nothing to help the traffic volumes on the Gainsborough Trent Bridge. Dunham to the south (privately owned toll bridge on the A 57) and Keadby (a bascule road and rail bridge that doesn't open any more) to the north.

They are quite happy to throw up massive housing developments and warehouses, but are backward on the major infrastructure projects.

We know that these Trent crossings are needed. Even more so now. We also know just how long it takes to get them planned and agreed.

 

[Britcoin]

I must admit to being someone who gets excited by the redevelopment believing spades will soon be in the ground to a feeling that it will never happen. However, there does seem to be much more positive and encouraging news of late.

We have the proposals to demolish adjacent properties. News EM has bought the EA. The chairman attending the meeting in Leeds and talking about a wider sports village. The combined authority eager to pursue things. A council meeting booked for September. MACE construction appointed to do the build.

 

[Dex]

As a short term fix to increase capacity would it bot make sense to level the Bridgford End once the houses have been demolished.
You'd like to think the planning would be granted this time and could add a few thousand to the capacity before the main building works get approved.

 

[Notcher]

As a short term fix to increase capacity would it bot make sense to level the Bridgford End once the houses have been demolished.
You'd like to think the planning would be granted this time and could add a few thousand to the capacity before the main building works get approved.

I think the problem there is that there would be nowhere to house the away supporters.

I don't believe it's the intention to demolish it either but to just raise the low end level with the rest

 

[Est.1865]

I think the problem there is that there would be nowhere to house the away supporters.

I don't believe it's the intention to demolish it either but to just raise the low end level with the rest

Yeah, I wonder if that was meant there - take the roof off that corner at build up to level it across.

 

[Rzar]

I must admit to being someone who gets excited by the redevelopment believing spades will soon be in the ground to a feeling that it will never happen. However, there does seem to be much more positive and encouraging news of late.

We have the proposals to demolish adjacent properties. News EM has bought the EA. The chairman attending the meeting in Leeds and talking about a wider sports village. The combined authority eager to pursue things. A council meeting booked for September. MACE construction appointed to do the build.

There are numerous small things getting put into place, it does feel like it’s getting close.

 

[Trents]

Weirdly, the NEP version of that article claims it's 5 houses - adding 17 and 19 Colwick Road, which I don't think anyone has yet reported as being owned by the club, and aren't on the demolition plan submitted to Rushcliffe Council. Wonder if they're getting confused with the recently purchased houses in Rosebery Avenue.

Nottingham Forest to demolish five houses for 'world-class' stadium expansion

The club's planners say it will help the long-awaited redevelopment get under way

www.nottinghampost.com

Big fan of us doing what we can when we can even if it's just knocking down a few houses.