Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:00 pm  

BJ

A brilliant politicians answer, when are you back

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:10 pm  

May 9th, if we can find Manchester through the Volcanic Cloud, a late night tonight, Channel 9 are showing Saints and Leeds at midnight QLD time, It's all good, plenty of Stubbies in the fridge.
Thanks for the reply, hope you are at peace with the world, kind regards John B

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Thu May 06, 2010 8:11 pm  

It's a similar story in St Helens, Merseyside, where Tesco is building a stadium for St Helens rugby league club, but the new superstore and massive car park will dominate, relegating the stadium to round the back of the site. Doesn't seem very inspiring.13th para.Source

It's a similar story in St Helens, Merseyside, where Tesco is building a stadium for St Helens rugby league club, but the new superstore and massive car park will dominate, relegating the stadium to round the back of the site. Doesn't seem very inspiring.13th para.Source

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Thu May 06, 2010 8:28 pm  

Waketrin Wild wrote: It's a similar story in St Helens, Merseyside, where Tesco is building a stadium for St Helens rugby league club, but the new superstore and massive car park will dominate, relegating the stadium to round the back of the site. Doesn't seem very inspiring.13th para.Source To be fair it makes sense , stadium used every 2 weeks for part of the year or a superstore used everyday and mostly 24hrs a day, the store should obviously be at the front

Waketrin Wild wrote: It's a similar story in St Helens, Merseyside, where Tesco is building a stadium for St Helens rugby league club, but the new superstore and massive car park will dominate, relegating the stadium to round the back of the site. Doesn't seem very inspiring.13th para.Source To be fair it makes sense , stadium used every 2 weeks for part of the year or a superstore used everyday and mostly 24hrs a day, the store should obviously be at the front

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Thu May 06, 2010 9:14 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

To be fair it makes sense , stadium used every 2 weeks for part of the year or a superstore used everyday and mostly 24hrs a day, the store should obviously be at the front

Not really, the stadium should be something to be proud of not hidden. But we'll see how it looks when the build is somewhere near starting.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Fri May 07, 2010 12:15 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

Not really, the stadium should be something to be proud of not hidden. But we'll see how it looks when the build is somewhere near starting.

I'll be surprised if it Doesnt tower over the site

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Fri May 07, 2010 4:12 pm  

While trawling through the many pages of info about the Stadium site there was one by a Government Dept that looks at Development sites like the UGB, it said that in their view the Council should knock back the plans because the stadium was too important to the area and people of St Helens and should have the most prominant position on the site, but beggers cant be choosers, the Council as we know didnt take their recomendations onboard.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat May 08, 2010 7:00 pm  

The stadium doesnt have the prominent position from views for people looking from the town centre.

However if coming from other areas then things get a lot more complex.

Certainly the stadium will be far more visible and prominent than most traditional RL stadiums including knowsley road.
Knowsley road in particular is hidden away in a suburban housing estate at the bottom of a hill.
Its essentially hidden until you are right ontop of it. This has never seemed to bother people in the past.

A look at other recent stadium developments, affecting RL clubs and i can only think of Leigh and Hull were the stadium is a central feature.

Take Wigans DW, that stadium is hidden behind a massive retail park, some distance from the main roads into and out of Wigan. Its position is nothing like as prominent as Central Park whose floodlights dominated the town.

Warringtons new stadium is also hidden behind a Tesco. It only really becomes visible when nearing the set of traffic lights built to accomodate access to Tescos.

Huddersfields ground is visible, but is stuck behind an industrial estate on the side of a hill.

Widnes ground is in the same place as its always been and therefore is hard to spot if you dont know there is a stadium there.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sat May 08, 2010 10:35 pm  

The Doghead wrote: While trawling through the many pages of info about the Stadium site there was one by a Government Dept that looks at Development sites like the UGB, it said that in their view the Council should knock back the plans because the stadium was too important to the area and people of St Helens and should have the most prominant position on the site, but beggers cant be choosers, the Council as we know didnt take their recomendations onboard. http://www.cabe.org.uk/design-review/st ... by-stadium

The Doghead wrote: While trawling through the many pages of info about the Stadium site there was one by a Government Dept that looks at Development sites like the UGB, it said that in their view the Council should knock back the plans because the stadium was too important to the area and people of St Helens and should have the most prominant position on the site, but beggers cant be choosers, the Council as we know didnt take their recomendations onboard. http://www.cabe.org.uk/design-review/st ... by-stadium

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sun May 09, 2010 10:45 am  

The Chair Maker wrote:

The stadium doesnt have the prominent position from views for people looking from the town centre.

However if coming from other areas then things get a lot more complex.

Certainly the stadium will be far more visible and prominent than most traditional RL stadiums including knowsley road.
Knowsley road in particular is hidden away in a suburban housing estate at the bottom of a hill.
Its essentially hidden until you are right ontop of it. This has never seemed to bother people in the past.

A look at other recent stadium developments, affecting RL clubs and i can only think of Leigh and Hull were the stadium is a central feature.

Take Wigans DW, that stadium is hidden behind a massive retail park, some distance from the main roads into and out of Wigan. Its position is nothing like as prominent as Central Park whose floodlights dominated the town.

Warringtons new stadium is also hidden behind a Tesco. It only really becomes visible when nearing the set of traffic lights built to accomodate access to Tescos.

Huddersfields ground is visible, but is stuck behind an industrial estate on the side of a hill.

Widnes ground is in the same place as its always been and therefore is hard to spot if you dont know there is a stadium there.

The Halliwell Jones is hidden by Tesco if you are viewing from behind Tesco! They are parallel facing the A49.

Who actually cares if it is visible? Function over form.