Dean Court Redevelopment

yanh_ said:
There are around ten house in Thistlebarrow Road that would need to be bought to allow for expansion of the north stand, yes this would be expensive (£8 million ???) but given the difficulty, and cost of finding another site anywhere is it really pie in the sky to suggest that the club might look at this? Other clubs have previously done very similar things to facilitate expansion. As well as removing the issues that the club might have height wise with expanding the main stand near to housing it would also allow the club to fully rebuild the ground rather than ending up with an unbalanced looking ground which would occur if the north and east stands are retained. No criticism of Bradford intended but given Foley's ambitious statements would a stadium that would look something like Valley Parade be what he is after?

Foley also seems keen on growing the corporate side of things and I'm not sure how he can significantly improve this as well as growing the capacity to 25,000 if he can only make limited changes to the main stand along with a new south end.
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It's a non starter in my view. There's nothing behind the south and main stands so the pitch could easily be moved away from those houses. The existing stands are basic and not particularly worth keeping so knocking them down and building bigger would surely be a lot cheaper than buying loads of houses without a cpo.
 
SlowDownDerek said:
It's a non starter in my view. There's nothing behind the south and main stands so the pitch could easily be moved away from those houses. The existing stands are basic and not particularly worth keeping so knocking them down and building bigger would surely be a lot cheaper than buying loads of houses without a cpo.
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Issue with this would be loss of capacity whilst rebuilding. I guess there's no easy options with this though so maybe shifting the pitch south west would be the least painful option all round. Fixes the issue with the houses once and for all and allows the club to rebuild in the way they wish.
 
yanh_ said:
Issue with this would be loss of capacity whilst rebuilding. I guess there's no easy options with this though so maybe shifting the pitch south west would be the least painful option all round. Fixes the issue with the houses once and for all and allows the club to rebuild in the way they wish.
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It's such a small stadium though that we're not really losing much capacity. Groundshare for a couple of seasons somewhere else and rebuild on the existing site. Might upset a few ST holders, but would get the job done..
 
Horatio said:
It's such a small stadium though that we're not really losing much capacity. Groundshare for a couple of seasons somewhere else and rebuild on the existing site. Might upset a few ST holders, but would get the job done..
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He does discuss it as a phased development, build the south stand first, then relocate the people in the main stand to the south stand temporarily and then they got offered their equivalent seats in the newly built main stand.

No need for a groundshare elsewhere, especially with a severe lack of options to do that.
 
Really good news. Interesting that the alternative site of the athletics stadium seems to be a less favoured option. I also thought that designers had been given a design brief a few years back and a presentation was given by an American consultancy with some images of what they came up with.
I also hope Bill has taken into account the reams of BS to be waded through before work can start.
 
DJ said:
He does discuss it as a phased development, build the south stand first, then relocate the people in the main stand to the south stand temporarily and then they got offered their equivalent seats in the newly built main stand.

No need for a groundshare elsewhere, especially with a severe lack of options to do that.
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The only suitable place for a groundshare would be St Marys and I can't imagine this ever happening for a whole variety of reasons.
 
yanh_ said:
Issue with this would be loss of capacity whilst rebuilding. I guess there's no easy options with this though so maybe shifting the pitch south west would be the least painful option all round. Fixes the issue with the houses once and for all and allows the club to rebuild in the way they wish.
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Im not sure if he means a new temporary south stand….I can imagine that could be knocked up in a few months over the summer
 
CherryBare said:
Yes if structuredome sell at a reasonable price. Knowing we now have a billionaire owner isn't going to put their price down
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I'm not sure that it puts the price up though, if Foley is prepared to walk away (and he clearly has the funds to do this) then this may help to persuade Structadene to do a deal at a reasonable price for both parties. After all do they want to be left with 2/3 of a stadium with no obvious alternative tenant?
 
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JohnHold said:
There was a big IF in Foley's comments - "if we decide to go that route" (buying the stadium back).
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My take on that was that if Structadene think they can continue to take the piss and ask for monopoly money for a small three sided stadium then Foley will just tell them to do one and go for option B....and build a new stadium. This would leave Structadene with a rusting eye sore and a local council perhaps not willing to buy the land from them for further housing. The AFCB cards suddenly look a lot stronger in this particular game of poker....
 
one option could be to build new stadium on the existing training pitches and the main car park. make up for the loss of car parking spaces by building multi storey car park behind the west stand. this causes no disruption to existing ground when developement takes place and avoids having to locate site for athletics stadium and convince them to move. job done, everyone happy apart from structadene
 
Bill Filey said:
one option could be to build new stadium on the existing training pitches and the main car park. make up for the loss of car parking spaces by building multi storey car park behind the west stand. this causes no disruption to existing ground when developement takes place and avoids having to locate site for athletics stadium and convince them to move. job done, everyone happy apart from structadene
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Plausible, but the road would have to go. Is there enough room between the athletics ground and the cricket pitch?
 
Bill Filey said:
one option could be to build new stadium on the existing training pitches and the main car park. make up for the loss of car parking spaces by building multi storey car park behind the west stand. this causes no disruption to existing ground when developement takes place and avoids having to locate site for athletics stadium and convince them to move. job done, everyone happy apart from structadene
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Looks good but I can't see a multi storey car park anywhere near King's Park.
 
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