labour council unable to make a decision shock!

Pretty ironic they have identified Garth Lane, fairly sure that back in the Great Coates days the council gave that site permision for retail development to ABP(?) which may have influenced potential retail partners at Great Coates pulling out.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Peaks parkway would be grid locked on match days especially Saturdays with Freshney place traffic and NO I don't live around here just stating a fact of how it is now.

Freemo could really be a winner if it was done properly.

I can't imagine how a Freeman Street site wouldn't be just as gridlocked if not more so than a Peaks Parkway site?

The problem is that we just don't have a two-lane circular sort of road in the way that many towns our size do. Everything has to pass through the middle of town and along single-lane roads to get anywhere. Note, this isn't a criticism of the council or road planning. It's just the way the town has built up over the years and there is no way it can be rectified as far as I can see because there is no free space between the Humber estuary and Grimsby/Cleethorpes. You could perhaps get around this to some degree with a Fish Docks site with roads running directly off the A180, but what would be the cost of that, I wonder?

I think a roundabout near the proposed Peaks Parkway site might be enough to alleviate some of the potential congestion problems, but not all of them. I think we're going to struggle, regardless of where any new site was located. If (heaven forbid) a Europarc/Pyewipe site was chosen, there will be outward bound congestion on match days as fans from Cleethorpes/Humberston etc would need to pass through Grimsby to get to the new site, followed by inward congestion as they left after the game.

No ideal locations available in the area. Other than Fenty Island, of course.  

What's wrong with the Morrisons option? I've no axe to grind but nobody has mentioned it have they? On the by-pass (albeit a by-pass with a ridiculous speed limit) and plenty of room. Only problem I can see with it is rail links.

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/

Seems freemo as become shortlisted Hmmm could really revamp that area up with new retail as well. The downside would be it could be the final nail in freshney place coffin after Ramsdens was recently given the green light to redevelop.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

What's wrong with the Morrisons option? I've no axe to grind but nobody has mentioned it have they? On the by-pass (albeit a by-pass with a ridiculous speed limit) and plenty of room. Only problem I can see with it is rail links.

Morrisons pies are delish. I'm in.

Just seems like more time and money wasted with precious little progress.

Seems like more smoke and mirrors to come to a similar conclusion to that which the club have already come to.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Has this been confirmed, will income from the stadium on non match days be used to fund GTFC considering we wont own the stadium?

As there are no concrete plans in place I'm not quite sure what needs to be confirmed. The club are on record as saying that Blundell Park doesn't offer them the seven day a week income that needs to form part of the modern funding of a professional football club and that the new stadium will need to address that. By the way I haven't seen anything in writing (apart from on here) to say that the club won't own the new stadium. I wasn't aware that we were at the stage where such decisions are made.

Quoted from barralad

As there are no concrete plans in place I'm not quite sure what needs to be confirmed. The club are on record as saying that Blundell Park doesn't offer them the seven day a week income that needs to form part of the modern funding of a professional football club and that the new stadium will need to address that. By the way I haven't seen anything in writing (apart from on here) to say that the club won't own the new stadium. I wasn't aware that we were at the stage where such decisions are made.

Colchester's community stadium is owned by the Borough Council and operated by the football club. The council borrowed over £10 million to build it with difference being made up by grants and other angel funding. I don't want to assume anything but if we are looking at a similar model then we will be renting off NELC I guess.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Colchester's community stadium is owned by the Borough Council and operated by the football club. The council borrowed over £10 million to build it with difference being made up by grants and other angel funding. I don't want to assume anything but if we are looking at a similar model then we will be renting off NELC I guess.

The likelihood is that there would be a separate management company in charge of the actual administration of the stadium. In the York model, from memory, I think that company is basically the football club plus some extra posts.

Here we go again but I have always said since the announcement that the flats will be coming down is where the stadium will be placed and I bet it will be called the shoreline stadium ( they will possibly even borrow the plans of the keepmoat ) so I see this as stalling tactics until the site is cleared