Blundell Park

Barnsley have found a way to improve Oakwell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68061594


Edit.   Barnsley Council already own adjoining land with Pool ,Leisure Centre, and Training ground I believe so suits all involved especially locals.

Quoted from JK47

The sort of money required can only come from one source - government levelling up money, and it SHOULD.  Look at some of the "leisure" facilities being funded 100% by the government even now.  The football club would then become a tenant and not responsible for funding the upkeep (and no future owner of GTFC could use it to fund some other business "opportunity" that did for other clubs!)

Ship sailed.

Demolish Freshney Place and build a new facility there.

Quoted from rancido

But what solution is possible?  Posters often mention Park and Ride but that would hardly be practical for a yearly use of 23 approx occasions a year and I can't see any other practical application for such a scheme. It might be possible to incorporate such a scheme using a town centre car park in conjunction with Stagecoach but that would still lead to increased traffic problems in the town. I don't see any available sites close to the ground that could be used for car parking and again you also encounter under useage on days other than match days.

There you have it in a nutshell. A facility that is used around 50 hrs a year.  
Other clubs share costs with Rugby, or second teams. JF of course wanted to share the cost with some retail park, but that all disappeared and is a non-starter in today's high street shopping becoming deserts.

Just been to Tesco's and overheard a conversation. "They're going to demolish the main stand". Of course in Tesco ' Every Little Helps' and Clubcard points too.

Quoted from mariner91

Even if you had to pay three or four times the market price, it's still not even close to the £10's of millions that would be needed for a new stadium.

This is true, but remarkably difficult to get all residents to sell, it would only need one property owner to rufuse and the entire scheme would be delayed by months, years or decades.

Quoted from Azimuth

This is true, but remarkably difficult to get all residents to sell, it would only need one property owner to rufuse and the entire scheme would be delayed by months, years or decades.

True. I remember reading about the difficulties Liverpool had when they wanted to extend the Main Stand. They then let the area fall in to disrepair to try and force the remaining residents out (allegedly) which is really not very ethical and I doubt very B-corp.

Continuing my exploration for the existing footprint for a new Main Stand without need to purchase any properties, it looks like there is about 15m depth to play with, which is not too dissimilar to the most modern single tier stand at Sincil Bank and that holds 5,700.  This is looking at Google Maps. Even a 5,000 seat Main Stand would give us 2,500 extra seats and a capacity of around 11,000.

The Main Stand doesn't even go back to the boundary of the ground. There is space at the back for more rows of seats and with a cantilever roof, I doubt it would be any higher than the pitched roof already there, plus the highest part of the roof would be at the front, further away than it is now from the houses.

There is also the empty corner up to the Pontoon, so plenty of scope for a clever design if the owners wanted to go down this route. The stand could also house any number of different facilities.

Quoted from GibMariner

Ship sailed.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/new-levelling-up-and-community-investments

No it hasn't.