Zing!

An excellent end to a strange old week.
Cant wait to see the bulldozers moving in

Excellent news and an important for the future of our club and sport in the City. Was our chairman was meeting Mr Walker today hope it was a positive meeting

No, no objection from June Fender or bigalf/alcasfan... one from a twitter nemesis of mine (well objection is a little loose... it was a bit of a rant really) and one from a guy I have never heard of, but at least it was a structured objection.

Their details are public record for anyone really that interested, so I don't think we need to post them here.

Probably been mentioned hundreds of times before but just read on this on the planning website and wondering how big is the coldstore going to be?

and any idea what this means? The stadium requires a dual carriageway but the cold store only single, but this doesnt matter because the cold store isnt building all the roads for the development? confused..

It means the stadium isn't starting yet.. Until all the boxes are ticked and all the funding is in place is my guess

The proposed gross floor area is just short of 39,000 sq. m. So only another 21,000 sq. m could be built & occupied before the stadium build would be compelled to be built, until more of the site could then be developed. Equally, this does not necessarily mean that another 21k sq. m HAS to be built to trigger the stadium build.

The whole site development, so stadium complex, B1, B2, B8 etc requires a new signal controlled junction to Aberford Road & the new access road, that will ultimately replace & join back up with Newmarket Lane beyond the development. As part of the the Newcold planning application they will have to build the new road junction & this will have to be built now & will have to be built to a capacity/standard to suit the whole development.

They will also have to build the access road as far as their development site, for obvious reasons, which lies beyond the stadium site. As such, the first stretch of this road will ultimately serve as the stadium access road & this stretch of road will have to be a dual carriageway to create suitable match day access & egress capacity. However, unlike the road junction, the planners can not compel Newcold to effectively build this stretch of road by way of imposing a planning condition now because they simply don't need it for their development. That all said, while the current planning application only shows a single carriageway road, that equally does not mean that the first section of road might still get built as a dual carriageway straight away, just that it is not a planning requirement to do so!

We don't know at the moment what will get built in respect of the road until we are a bit further down the line, but if only a single carriageway section is built initially, it will have to be built so it can be turned into so dual carriageway easily afterwards, but this will need doing for the stadium.

It is just planning condition stuff, so don't get too hung up on it for the moment. They are still building a massive part of what is required for the stadium site.

Thank you I.A, very kind of you to answer so comprehensively

Field of dreams.....

"Build it, and they will moan"

This dream is about to become a reality though.
Good dreams for us, nightmares perhaps for others
I just hope we still exist as a top flight club when it happens to fully justify it, but that is in our own hands.
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