Not sure if there is already development but I was wondering about the old Birds Eye site on Hessle High Road and about the old site between Brough BAe and Welton Waters?
Gillingham have rejected a £1m bid from Bristol City for highly-rated 22-year-old midfielder Bradley Dack.
The Hessle High Road site is still empty as far as I'm aware, but there's a lot of residential there now and access isn't great, the other one's a non-starter, they're never going to entertain moving Hull Fair outside of Hull.
Answer the question then ? All this talk about what and what might not happen if any new owners buy the KC Stadium yet no-one has broached the subject of the club we share it with. It might be boring to you but the rugby holds us back and it has done since 1904. Whilst we ground share with them nothing will change. Surely, again boring or not, the tenancy FC have at the KC is a massive factor. Perhaps I'm the only one who realises this ?
There are many factors that will hold us back, the shared tenancy is one, as is HCC, the lack of opportunity to develop the area and create a decent home for football with a sports village, closer top quality training complex etc. The way the KC was built, and why is always going to be a factor, and there's no easy answer to that tbh. The whole thing is a mess, and no one is willing to actually do anything. Least of all HCC. It's easier just to blame the pantomime villain we have as an owner.
Oh well we might aswell have stayed at BP then. Its a right twat to have a 25,000 seater stadium isn't it
Eventually I feel the council will be facing one big headache because if they don't allow the land to be developed around the stadium to make the whole area attractive to investors they will be left with a stadium and no tenants. I'm sure the majority of the capital expenditure has been written off, but the asset value in the councils books; anybody know?
Oh right. So they could stay there and be ok without us now? That's at least some good news. I don't really pay any attention to rugby so didn't know.
It would be up to the owners of the SMC to maintain the ground and honour their contracts with Hull FC and the Council until the lease runs out.
A few years back I visited Warwick in late October and the fair (which is essentially the same travellers that come to Hull) was in the Town Centre. It wasn't as big as Hull Fair but still a reasonable size. Town centre roads were closed but local shops were open taking advantage of the Fair's presence. It worked well. Might work in Hull's City Centre but it is a radical idea.
