Is that the case? I thought listed buildings could be demolished with appropriate govt permission, or de-listed if they don't still meet the original criteria for the listing. Probably too much hassle regardless.
The listing can be lifted in certain circumstances, but obviously the whole point of a listing is to make it difficult to get rid of them. It's academic anyway, as there'd be many far better options than buying a site covered in listed buildings. The massive benefit a football club has when building a training facility, is that they can buy a site that wouldn't normally get planning, so it can effectively be bought for the price of farm land. It's only really the clubhouse and any indoor training facilities that need planning and decent access, everything else is just pitches and can be put pretty much anywhere.
I get the Melton option completely for location and transport links but the surrounding area is too industrial for me.
Just so we know how the other half live.[/QUOTE] The other half live well. We were in Eddie Stobart's box at Newcastle, very good food, and the bar was restocked a couple of times. Suffice to say Steverico couldn't help himself and snaffled two bottles of cider, and a bottle of champagne, for the journey home. To top a very good day off he puked in my car, oh and it was a good job the Shearer pic was screwed to the wall of the box as he tried taking that too! The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Drove past the (I’m not even sure what it’s called now) used to be the Gemtec arena sports hall that faces Walton Street. The building and the outdoor pitches look like they’ve been there for 50 years untouched. Shame really
Beat me to it, Ehab will probably want to sell it now and the plans are already done. Just remembered that's for a stadium not a training centre.
It's called the Tigers Trust Arena now and it's still used by various people, including the OSC on matchdays. Anyone know who's responsible for the outdoor pitches, they're nothing to do with City/SMC are they?
Like the vast majority of local government authorities in the UK are Hull City Council potless ? I read somewhere that each and every household in the city would have to pay nearly £3k a year in Council Tax to balance the books. I guess that selling the stadium to HCAFC may become a viable option to reduce the debt. In that case the egg chasers might have to pay a higher rent for their continued use, or ship out to Costello!!
Training complex at Melton (not Ferriby side). Full size indoor pitch, outdoor pitches, sports science facility, partner with a hotel chain and a 5,000 capacity ground for reserves/ground share with Ferriby. They can build 20 houses on their existing set up. Everyone wins.
The other half live well. We were in Eddie Stobart's box at Newcastle, very good food, and the bar was restocked a couple of times. Suffice to say Steverico couldn't help himself and snaffled two bottles of cider, and a bottle of champagne, for the journey home. To top a very good day off he puked in my car, oh and it was a good job the Shearer pic was screwed to the wall of the box as he tried taking that too! The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.[/QUOTE] Never pays to be shy
We get to use the stadium for nothing, why spend millions buying something that you've already got for free?
More than one person before has suggested buying Hull Ionians site in Brantingham and developing that further. Right area etc. Depends I suppose how much they'd want for it, is it big enough/suitable and whether they could be accommodated there or somewhere else.
What happened to the old British Aerospace factory land at Brough? Is that still empty? That would be a perfect size & location for the sports village
But its not an asset. Even from what I recall of the finance side of my degree, having assets is better than having none when attracting investment and compiling a SWOT analysis, and an acid test.
/QUOTE] For me it's the perfect site, has some farm land around it that could make it larger if and when needed
But then you're buying a fully developed site at a premium, that would still need to be completely redeveloped to suit the club's needs. Considering most of the land required could be bought for peanuts, it would be an unnecessarily expensive way of doing things (even if they would sell).
Fair point, I suppose the club would have to weigh up the price difference/speed/convenience of buying a site that already has access, utilities, drainage and all the civils etc Vs a cheeper site that would need everything from scratch.
