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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 10, 2018 18:23:26 GMT
Horfield might need it but the Mem site is totally unsuitable for such a stadium, hence why the previous owners never built one even after they obtained planning permission. Is it unsuitable because it's close to your house and may affect it's value? No and No, next question? |
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 10, 2018 18:26:16 GMT
You are the type of person who is holding Bristol back, why the sixth biggest city in the country has no metro and or arena. Go to Newcastle and they have everything, including a fantastic 56,0000 seater stadium right in the middle of their city centre, that is what Horfield needs, a state of the art multipurpose stadium. Match day chaos, feeble inappropriate *********. Utg Going to write something similar, Bristol continues to be held back by people not wanting anything built , they love a good old protest. We've had pp for the Mem and the UWE, Glos CC have rebuilt the county ground, the 82er's AG, so it's clearly not planners stopping us getting a new stadium. |
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Post by Okebournegas on Apr 10, 2018 18:30:08 GMT
Going to write something similar, Bristol continues to be held back by people not wanting anything built , they love a good old protest. We've had pp for the Mem and the UWE, Glos CC have rebuilt the county ground, the 82er's AG, so it's clearly not planners stopping us getting a new stadium. Ok topper |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 11, 2018 10:09:29 GMT
just doing some research into the company who are doing the planning for the Colony (Evans Jones Surveyors and Planning Consultants) and i notice they don't have a lot of experience in football related projects but are very experienced in getting planning for difficult housing developments... Just Saying like  |
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Post by faggotygas on Apr 11, 2018 10:28:14 GMT
just doing some research into the company who are doing the planning for the Colony (Evans Jones Surveyors and Planning Consultants) and i notice they don't have a lot of experience in football related projects but are very experienced in getting planning for difficult housing developments... Just Saying like There seems plenty of land at the Colony, so if the owners want to help pay for it all with some enabling housing development then all power to them. |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 11, 2018 10:36:47 GMT
just doing some research into the company who are doing the planning for the Colony (Evans Jones Surveyors and Planning Consultants) and i notice they don't have a lot of experience in football related projects but are very experienced in getting planning for difficult housing developments... Just Saying like There seems plenty of land at the Colony, so if the owners want to help pay for it all with some enabling housing development then all power to them. They have 29 acres of land available of which we need 20 i believe.... 9 acres of land for housing would more than pay for proposed Colony project |
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Post by Finnish Gas on Apr 11, 2018 10:39:07 GMT
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 11, 2018 11:18:26 GMT
Haven’t we learned by giving away land for housing?
The plot at the Mem would be a lot more viable had we not sold a load off for housing.
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Post by lpgas on Apr 11, 2018 11:29:27 GMT
Haven’t we learned by giving away land for housing? The plot at the Mem would be a lot more viable had we not sold a load off for housing. It was the rugby club that sold it prior to us buying it |
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Post by blueridge on Apr 11, 2018 11:41:26 GMT
I don't think The Colony site will need much more than a dozen acres to complete. A full size pitch equates roughly to 1.5 acres. Four pitches equals 6 acres max. I cant see a club house - parking and access needing much more than another 3 or 4 acres. Allowing for future expansion - 15 acres could be made available for possible residential use - hence IMO the scale back to make the Project self funding. Up to 10 house per acre average - nice little earner if this is the proposed way forward.
The new Police Helicopter Base and runway almost next door to The Colony will be operational fairly soon. The whole area bordering the M5 is seemingly being opened up for development - 'Green Belt kicked into touch'.
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Post by singupgas on Apr 11, 2018 11:49:53 GMT
I don't think The Colony site will need much more than a dozen acres to complete. A full size pitch equates roughly to 1.5 acres. Four pitches equals 6 acres max. I cant see a club house - parking and access needing much more than another 3 or 4 acres. Allowing for future expansion - 15 acres could be made available for possible residential use - hence IMO the scale back to make the Project self funding. Up to 10 house per acre average - nice little earner if this is the proposed way forward. The new Police Helicopter Base and runway almost next door to The Colony will be operational fairly soon. The whole area bordering the M5 is seemingly being opened up for development - 'Green Belt kicked into touch'. Surely if all of our football teams are going to be based at the Colony we will need more than just 4 football pitches. Surely any ambitious club, that need to build a training ground need to be looking at grass pitches, all weather pitches, an indoor facility. I would wonder if it is all worth the hassle, if we end up with 4 pitches and a office. |
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Post by stuart1974 on Apr 11, 2018 12:03:15 GMT
Haven’t we learned by giving away land for housing? The plot at the Mem would be a lot more viable had we not sold a load off for housing. Agreed, the odd property for club digs is one thing but more than that sets a precident which will get more opposition. |
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Post by oldgas on Apr 11, 2018 12:10:23 GMT
Haven’t we learned by giving away land for housing? The plot at the Mem would be a lot more viable had we not sold a load off for housing. It was the rugby club that sold it prior to us buying it I'm pretty sure we owned at least 50% of the stadium and grounds when the training pitches were sold. In hindsight that was a great shame. The club would have been able to build a decent stadium, at least the size of the UWE, had that land remained. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 11, 2018 12:12:27 GMT
I don't think The Colony site will need much more than a dozen acres to complete. A full size pitch equates roughly to 1.5 acres. Four pitches equals 6 acres max. I cant see a club house - parking and access needing much more than another 3 or 4 acres. Allowing for future expansion - 15 acres could be made available for possible residential use - hence IMO the scale back to make the Project self funding. Up to 10 house per acre average - nice little earner if this is the proposed way forward. The new Police Helicopter Base and runway almost next door to The Colony will be operational fairly soon. The whole area bordering the M5 is seemingly being opened up for development - 'Green Belt kicked into touch'. Not really sure how the police got, or even sought, pp for an helicopter bases right next to one of the busiest motorway junctions in the UK but that site is hardly next door to The Colony as the M4 gets in the way and that land is mostly likely not green belt on that side of the motorway? Although it will be interesting to see if the rumours about housing paying for the training facilities do turn out to true if we do ever submit any plans. |
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Post by knowall on Apr 11, 2018 15:02:46 GMT
It was the rugby club that sold it prior to us buying it I'm pretty sure we owned at least 50% of the stadium and grounds when the training pitches were sold. In hindsight that was a great shame. The club would have been able to build a decent stadium, at least the size of the UWE, had that land remained. Geoff Dunford could have stopped the sale - but didn't |
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Post by Thatslife on Apr 11, 2018 15:21:17 GMT
Going to write something similar, Bristol continues to be held back by people not wanting anything built , they love a good old protest. We've had pp for the Mem and the UWE, Glos CC have rebuilt the county ground, the 82er's AG, so it's clearly not planners stopping us getting a new stadium. It's no just the Mem thats unsuitable, the infostructure around the Mem struugles to cope with a gate of 9000 let alone one possibly double that. |
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Post by Langford Gas on Apr 11, 2018 15:24:08 GMT
Whats to say the UWE won't be resurrected
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Post by axegas on Apr 11, 2018 15:28:00 GMT
I'm pretty sure we owned at least 50% of the stadium and grounds when the training pitches were sold. In hindsight that was a great shame. The club would have been able to build a decent stadium, at least the size of the UWE, had that land remained. Geoff Dunford could have stopped the sale - but didn't Stopping the sale would have put the future of Bristol Rugby at risk, at the time the mem was viewed as a stopgap for a new stadium anyway. |
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Post by womble on Apr 11, 2018 16:54:02 GMT
The rugby club had sold an option to buy the land that was their training pitch (now Trubshaw Gardens). Once the developer decided to exercise their option to buy, I'm not sure if there was a great deal the football club could do about it.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 11, 2018 17:15:33 GMT
Haven’t we learned by giving away land for housing? The plot at the Mem would be a lot more viable had we not sold a load off for housing. It was the rugby club that sold it prior to us buying it I don't think it was LPG, I'm pretty sure we were in on it as well. |
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