Good old Tories, the buffoon Pickles was on the other day saying they would not scrap RDAs if businesses in the region want them, but then went onto say they would like more localised control, ie city against city, which proved so counter productive in the past for the regions.
Ask Bandwagon Dave to help he worth £30m and still claiming £1079 a month mortgage payments, even though he's got a rent free home in Downing Street.

Just like to say that I think your stadium's progress is coming on fantastically well!! Really well done to all involved and I can't wait to watch Wakey play against you in it.

I'm wondering though, is there a "Green" or Sustainability policy that goes with the construction and future operation? If you look at Wembley or the Olympics there tends to be a big emphasis on these issues, so I'm just wondering if this has been factored into your stadium.

Cheers!

The seats are green.

Hahaha

Always a good thing

I think a few of us may disagree with that!

Seriously though, the design and access statement has a lot of stuff about habitats an ecology as there's a brook/wildlife corridor running through the site and the ship canal near by. I think there was some work on sustainable drainage but that may have been the former design. There's also talk of public transport links and cycle storage (just need that cycle lane on the M60 now). The main text related to general sustainability is...

So long as these measures are long-term net revenue positive and not just a costly sop to enviro-mentalists.

I have been informed that the seats will not be green... This isn't my word... just a word from somebody at the club. Just passing on the info I heard... not my word... so it could still be wrong.

Did see Wilky the other day at Brooklyn DIY in Walkden stocking up on tins of red paint.

Oh excellent, cheers for that Iain! That's a great help, much appreciated. Have you got a link to this?

Cheers

Oh hang, I've found it, cheers!

Any more Top Gear related cliche's for us?

That's the entire point of them despite the paranoid stories that the likes of the Mail and Express peddle to cretins.

No, the point of them is to buy off enviro-mentalists who don't like to see progress.

I expect a cost-benefit analysis of "rainwater harvesting" for example has not been done. These devices are best utilised on a large scale to benefit from existing terrain, local climate and economies of scale - and are usually called reservoirs. As a club we can't be throwing money on expensive sops to lobbyist groups

or a large water butt to maximise rain runoff from the stadia roof which could then be used to water the pitch. Mind you if it is installed by United Utilities it will most likely have a number of holes in it allowing for leakage.