Redscat wrote:
Wouldn't want an all -seater stadium myself. Never thought sitting down was the proper way to watch RL. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've sat down at BV in 63 years watching Trin.
I still have a feeling that Neil Fox Way will be where we end up.
I have a couple of friends who are working on City Fields atm and I've been trying to hit them for any information about it for the past year or two. Tbf one is a bricky for one of the companies, so as he says he doesn't know much more than I do about future plans. The other though is a manager for one of the other building companies and when I've asked him if he's heard anything about sports facilities being built down there, he says not to his knowledge. But says the only real place in his opinion where there's enough land for something like a stadium, is where the old Power Station was, which is currently being advertised for warehousing and retail/fast food outlets - but it is owned by the Council. Which most of the area isn't or has been earmarked for other things, such as housing, school, health facilities and various warehousing projects to provide jobs. He says the road that runs down to Stanley Ferry with the land to the right is earmarked for an old folks community.
Slightly o/t but as a someone who lives near to it and already knows how busy it is atm, plus it's made Aberford Road/Barr lane, especially around Pinderfields even more of a ball ache than it was previously at peak times. His general thoughts on the relief aspect of the road and what's going to happen when it's fully built up were very interesting although slightly alarming tbh. He basically says any relief that it is/has served will be completely lost as City Fields gets more and more built up. He says the road is far too small to be both a relief road and a road to service the 2500 houses and various other things that are going to build. He can't get his head around why the road is so narrow first of all and can't believe that it was built to this spec knowing what else and how much was going to be built after it was completed. Has he said to me, once complete apart from being a relief road, City Field could have around anywhere from 8-10000 people living on it.