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Methuselah wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:02 pm I cannot understand why you would build houses next to a football ground.In future if you wanted to put on pop concerts etc to generate money for the ground,you will get those future residents objecting about the noise.That area has always been industrial.A better use would have been as a car park for match days,because if the club manages to grow the support people will start to object about the number of cars on match days.
As a compromise if we were to build a new stadium in the future the old reservoir sight next to the existing reservoir is surely the best site as it is straight off the road into Barrow and there is plenty of room for expansion and is still roughly in the same area.
Having said all that it will probably remain a pipe dream until a rich benefactor comes along.

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:39 pm Re New Stadium Think Tank, there is plenty of land west of the Res where the old driving range was. It's right on the A590 with room enough for a vast purpose-built car park. Now if the big-spending BAE/MoD ever wanted to celebrate and commemorate their long-standing relationship with the town that has been good for them over the years and continuing into the forseeable future, well look no further.

Methuselah wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:02 pm In future if you wanted to put on pop concerts etc to generate money for the ground,you will get those future residents objecting about the noise.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:09 pm
I can’t understand why anyone would want to live there. Right next to the bus depot in earshot of sirens from fire station and police station and a rat infested reservoir next door. I can’t see folk lining up to buy them

The Green Bluebird wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:08 pm How about a joint venture with a budget hotel company to develop the Steelworks end as at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool. Income from letting rooms to contractors through the week (Sunday to Thursday) and no hotel bills to pay for players on matchday weekends and spare rooms used for corporate??

Methuselah wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:02 pm I cannot understand why you would build houses next to a football ground.In future if you wanted to put on pop concerts etc to generate money for the ground,you will get those future residents objecting about the noise.That area has always been industrial.A better use would have been as a car park for match days,because if the club manages to grow the support people will start to object about the number of cars on match days.
As a compromise if we were to build a new stadium in the future the old reservoir sight next to the existing reservoir is surely the best site as it is straight off the road into Barrow and there is plenty of room for expansion and is still roughly in the same area.
Having said all that it will probably remain a pipe dream until a rich benefactor comes along.

Lancaster Branch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:33 pm Also once upon a time Orsted looked at funding a rebuild of the Popular Side to include offices and worker accommodation. Can’t recall why that one failed.

Hadrian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:34 pm

Lancaster Branch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:33 pm Also once upon a time Orsted looked at funding a rebuild of the Popular Side to include offices and worker accommodation. Can’t recall why that one failed.

Access rights on non-match days, perhaps??

mall wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:42 pm Forget BAE.
All they are interested in now is their shareholders.

Lancaster Branch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:35 pm How do you mean, access rights?

Jeeby wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 9:07 pm Did they not once upon a time look at proposals of a joint Football/Rugby stadium at the Marina village area, perhaps where they are now clearing the land for housing ?