Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:08 am  

To be fair material cost have come down a little, certainly from when work started on the East stand, but they will do well to get much out of the £14m beyond the main stand and all the ancillary work, especially if they have to factor in compensatory flood storage and infrastructure works to satisfy the EA objection. Digging a big hole and carting muck away costs a fair whack.

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:21 am  

I said months ago that Cas will look at our ground and try to oneup us by building a main stand and tart the other three sides up with glorified long bus shelters with terracing under them, much like Salford but with a smaller grandstand

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:21 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Digging a big hole and carting muck away costs a fair whack.

nearly as much as asbestos removal

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:26 am  

financialtimes wrote:

nearly as much as asbestos removal

Indeed, it's the unglamorous stuff that tends to stack up, and then you wonder where most of the budget has gone.

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:54 am  

financialtimes wrote:

nearly as much as asbestos removal

John Minards said it cost £60,000 for the removal of the asbestos found at BV during building work, but also said when spending £10 million, perhaps the sixty grand wasn’t such a major impact. I think that sixty grand would easily have paid for the rain screens at both ends of the new stand, unfortunately, I can see some unhappy comments towards the club by supporters both home and away, during the rainy day games due to lack of screens. This isn’t a moan by me, just an unfortunate chain of events.

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:07 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

To be fair material cost have come down a little, certainly from when work started on the East stand, but they will do well to get much out of the £14m beyond the main stand and all the ancillary work, especially if they have to factor in compensatory flood storage and infrastructure works to satisfy the EA objection. Digging a big hole and carting muck away costs a fair whack.

Indeed. The stadium developer is already on record - on the planning portal - as saying the required flood mitigations noted by the EA make the whole build undeliverable, with a drastic scaling down of the plans.

They are begging for the EA to drop their objection.

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Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 am  

I don't begrudge Cas a nice new ground. I hope they sort it out.
Just after ours is complete and that they don't get to dodge all the cost and bureaucracy we had to go through.

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:32 am  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote:

John Minards said it cost £60,000 for the removal of the asbestos found at BV during building work, but also said when spending £10 million, perhaps the sixty grand wasn’t such a major impact. I think that sixty grand would easily have paid for the rain screens at both ends of the new stand, unfortunately, I can see some unhappy comments towards the club by supporters both home and away, during the rainy day games due to lack of screens. This isn’t a moan by me, just an unfortunate chain of events.

Wonder if this is something Matt Ellis might do now

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:50 am  

I'm not overly convinced that the side screens are needed.

I wouldn't say no to having them done, but the orientation of the ground means that the bad weather (predominantly) comes directly into the stand face on - from the West.

Re: cas redevelpment goes to plan B : Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:20 pm  

dboy wrote:

I'm not overly convinced that the side screens are needed.

I wouldn't say no to having them done, but the orientation of the ground means that the bad weather (predominantly) comes directly into the stand face on - from the West.

The stand doesn't go the full length of the pitch either. I'm assuming side screens would mean those sat in the back corner wouldn't have a full view of the pitch?