New Stadium Rumour

Quoted from ginnywings

The Council ruled Freeman Street out as recently as April. It's not big enough.

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-town-stadium-freeman-street-1463482

Maybe not big enough for the full Fenty vanity project but more than enough size for a modern stadium with facilties for 7 day income streams. MK Dons was superb and would fit there easily.

A few beers down Freemo, fish and chips from the pee bung, and something "extra" if we win. What more could you want?

Freemo site would be a great idea. Would regenerate the area and form a much needed ‘link’ between Gy and Clee. All we need is funding ! I understand the Arab billionaire Sheikh anvac is looking to invest in GTFC...he could put some freshness back into the club !

Freeman St is plenty big enough for the stadium and parking,

Training pitches and housing could be elsewhere.

Knock down the lhs of Freeman st (looking from riby sq) from riby squate to the market.  There are no worthwhile shops or pubs and some of the buildings have been condemned around the tje old council tower block.  That will create plenty of room.
That whole are wants flattening and starting again.
Blank canvas

The club has no idea how to engage the fan base, no idea that keeping the fans informed can keep the fans on board even if there are delays.

The club treats the fans like mushrooms, they keep us in the dark and feed us excrement.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Freeman St is plenty big enough for the stadium and parking,

Training pitches and housing could be elsewhere.

The land the flats where on is not big enough to fit our current ground never mind a new ground with 4 modern stands. The land the  shops and carpark are also  not big enough and to throw another spanner in the works there are a few 100 council houses in the middle of both which are staying put.

The Freemo site won't need car parking spaces, after Brexit we could rent the massive car parking area on the docks from ABP  

Quoted from Rob_in_Grimsby

The land the flats where on is not big enough to fit our current ground never mind a new ground with 4 modern stands. The land the  shops and carpark are also  not big enough and to throw another spanner in the works there are a few 100 council houses in the middle of both which are staying put.

Of course it's not big enough- but having said that there would be no need for car parks as we could park down Peaks Parkway and walk the rest of the way taking in the scenic Hainton Avenue

The club appear to be slightly obsessed with a minimum 20 acre site to incorporate parking and training facilities. That’s all well and good, but we need to be open to making the odd concession in order to make it happen at all.

Brentford, situated in West London where land is both scarce and incredibly expensive are building a 17,500 stadium on a site of just 7.6 acres. Not only that, but it’s also awkwardly shaped with poor access meaning that a certain amount of architectural skill is required to make it viable (which actually lends itself to a finished product which is a lot more unique than your average, modern ‘bowl’.

Is the site ideal? Not at all, but what matters is this - it’s actually getting built.

I don’t know how big the site near Freeman Street is (a damnnsite bigger than 7.6 acres I’d imagine) but it’s an area screaming out for regeneration and what better ‘anchor’ for that than a community stadium?

With the proposed development of Freshney Place / riverhead, there’s an opportunity to really do something quite special with a large area which is currently an embarrassment to the town.

If Peaks Parkway is indeed dead in the water, and there’s certainly been nothing in the last 12 months to convince me otherwise, then we surely have to be looking at every possible way to make a Freeman Street stadium work. It might not be the ideal location, but the wider argument for it to be situated there surely outranks any other and I wouldn’t foresee anything other than unianimous public support.

Quoted from Poojah

The club appear to be slightly obsessed with a minimum 20 acre site to incorporate parking and training facilities. That’s all well and good, but we need to be open to making the odd concession in order to make it happen at all.

Brentford, situated in West London where land is both scarce and incredibly expensive are building a 17,500 stadium on a site of just 7.6 acres. Not only that, but it’s also awkwardly shaped with poor access meaning that a certain amount of architectural skill is required to make it viable (which actually lends itself to a finished product which is a lot more unique than your average, modern ‘bowl’.

Is the site ideal? Not at all, but what matters is this - it’s actually getting built.

I don’t know how big the site near Freeman Street is (a damnnsite bigger than 7.6 acres I’d imagine) but it’s an area screaming out for regeneration and what better ‘anchor’ for that than a community stadium?

With the proposed development of Freshney Place / riverhead, there’s an opportunity to really do something quite special with a large area which is currently an embarrassment to the town.

If Peaks Parkway is indeed dead in the water, and there’s certainly been nothing in the last 12 months to convince me otherwise, then we surely have to be looking at every possible way to make a Freeman Street stadium work. It might not be the ideal location, but the wider argument for it to be situated there surely outranks any other and I wouldn’t foresee anything other than unianimous public support.

Great post.

I'm not sure why the training pitch(es) need to be at the same site as the Stadium? That'd really bring down the amount of space needed at the stadium. Have the stadium on Freemo and the training pitches on PP? Many teams train half an hour's drive away from the matchday stadium.