siemens are already big in the area they can construct the rail system https://www.mobility.siemens.com/global/en/portfolio/rail.html there's just no downsides to it
Neither of those site's are remotely big enough when you concider West Park is needed as well during the fair as a temporary caravan park. Also how are you getting the numbers who go there and away again? You'd need hundreds of buses for a park and ride.
You would hope this could be seen as a double opportunity for Hull. The development of the area around the MKM for sporting purposes and then development of a new area to host the fair. Somewhere like St Andrews dock for instance which is really waisted at the moment.
IMO, to stop such a development for the sake of a fair one week of the year doesn't make sense. Times have moved on, surely another site can be found elsewhere. I'm all for tradition, and if it was a permanent fair on the site then I could understand the objections, but something that happens for a week once a year, for me it's a no-brainer.
I wonder what would effect losing the fair would have on the people of Hull? I'd guess lots of grumbling for a short while then it'd become history. But whichever flavour of council sanctioned it would never get voted in again, and therein lies the problem!
It's probably the only remotely inner city-ish area that is. It's a very different demographic of local resident though who unlike people who live near Walton street, didn't sign up to live next to Hull fair. Ease of getting huge numbers there would still be a struggle, although better than on the outskirts. You'd pray for dry weather as well. It'd end up looking like Glanstonbury by the second night if there'd been any rain.
But isn't that the point, it shouldn't be lost and I agree with that, but a new location surely can be found, there is enough wasteland around to accommodate it. These days, unlike in my young time when the bus was the main source of transport to get there, parking is a nightmare these days, surely somewhere like say Humber Bridge or similar on the outskirts where the area for parking is easier must be a better option.
yeah I would need concreting. I'm not advocating it particularly, merely saying its big enough, as is East Park
Nottingham Goose fair has big rides on grass doesn't it? Would Costello work? Good transport connections for a fair. Actually would it work for a sports village there's part of a stadium already there. Does a sports village need to be next to the ground?
Is this assuming that Mike Ross and the Lib Dems stay in control of the council? A Labour council will do, what they have done previously, kick it into the long grass, afterall nothing can come before their 'world famous' beloved fair.
