The industrial estate behind the Chapel end is owned by the council and I don't think any of the tennants have that long a lease on the rather outdated units there. So it is feasible to buy that land for redevelopment. The land adjacent to the waterfront would take much longer to aquire. The only alternative aggregates unloading area was to be at Dibden Bay, but that's not going to happen for at least 10-20 years, if that. So I can't see them moving, unless they go bust. Nice designs though, from the same company that designed the Staplewood redevelopment.
Would be great to see these plans come to fruition if only to stop the Skate fans at work's jibes about having an unoriginal, souless, flatpack stadium AND it doesn't look like a giant toilet bowl!...
A guy I used to know worked with the council, I remember him saying that Saints already owned the land that the Salt works is on.
How can Pompey fans laugh at our present stadium? Not exciting, but you can at least seat 32,000 fans in reasonable comfort. If they are interested, i understand you can get one in a smaller size
A few months after the takeover, there was a wee bit of talk about Liebherr and other partners getting involved in the regeneration of the Itchen waterside. I suspect that, because the club had sounded out the Council, on what SFC were proposing to do, the Council, in turn, showed SFC what they had in mind, and a mutual outline plan was put together.
There is still some talk of the now vacated city council depot opposite the Chapel Arms pub being turned into a Snowdome along the lines of the one at Milton Keynes.
There's a similar building at Edgbaston, which is a catering/banqueting area. It has a walkway into the executive area. Or.... there is one in the continent like that which is a travel centre for buses and the like on matchdays. For dealing with away fans.
Seems to be a walkway curving around the back of the bronze building into the football ground. Suppose we shouldn't analyze too much...long way off and subject to change before then.
I heard it was a 2 floor complex, bottom would be a shop and the top a media center for press conferences etc.
Its the Saints octagon where Cortese will battle ex-saints players & managers in weekly no holds barred action before a baying and adoring crowd.
There's nothing wrong with our current stadium. It holds all our fans and cost peanuts in comparison to what generally gets spent nowadays (a good thing). We could do with a few more bars and restaurants close to the ground, but architects drawings like this are pie in the sky. Never going to happen.
I wouldn't completely write it off. This chairman has a consistent habit of doing what he says he will do. The first images of the like appeared in this season's DVD booklet, and these are upgraded ideas, so it's not as if the pictures have been drawn without sanction.
I agree, these architects make the most amazing drawings imaginable to win the tender, and the outcome is never that good. I saw a similar artist's rendering of a planned winter sports park in Cardiff where there are more trees inside buildings than in most forests...
The guys who did the new Law Court Building at the University of Hertfordshire did a pretty good job of it: please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Pretty much spot on.
Here's that Cardiff development by the way, if it ends up looking anything like this I will eat my winter hat. In fact I'll be mildly surprised if gets built at all. [video=youtube;3eyi9okeQwY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyi9okeQwY[/video] Don't ask me why they have footage of Glastonbury festival in there, but just look at all the trees!
