dongonzalos
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Also how many acres us the Butts Arena?
Butts park arena? (48 Viewers)
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dongonzalos
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What do you mean?
Otis
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Brilliant! Exactly where I mean. Cheers, Dave.
Looks a very similar size to the Butts and it's been wasteland for years now and it's right in the city centre.
Why hasn't anyone suggested this before?
Otis
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For anyone wondering about this location, it's opposite the Belgrade Plaza car park, on the other side of the ring road, down from the fire station. Radford Road to the right, Abbott's Lane above and St. Osburg's to the left.
dongonzalos
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Used to be a storage area for British Gas?
chiefdave
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Contaminated?
dongonzalos
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We have had that before
(I put an emoticon, in here with a mouth mask)
However my emoticons don't work
Is that as expected nick
It's in an I phone .
Seriously though mate yes I think it was the storage area for the old massive gas cylinder thingy (sorry forgot their name) that used to be opposite.
Dave how many acres are u thinking we need for this?
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dongonzalos
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At least it wasn't hornets
dongonzalos
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How much do you think the club would pay to build a new training/academy facility?
chiefdave
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Impossible question when you don't know location, costs, other facilities etc. Maybe they could do it for nothing, just issues bonds against the stadium.
skybluetony176
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Because it's too credible of an option for a bluff
someone might just call it. What are SISU going to do then? Build it?
chiefdave
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Because it's too credible of an option for a bluff
Does anyone know who owns it or if there is anything planned for the site? Should get the question asked at the next SCG.
dongonzalos
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I wasn't having a pop it's just the fire station across the road
They have to pay 7 million to convert it into a ambo/fire station
So would it may be worth a cheeky bid, they might fancy buying a cheaper location?
It might help them out?
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Rusty Trombone
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The Abbotts Lane land is being offered for housing.
dongonzalos
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Does that mean it can't be used for anything else?
dongonzalos
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Dave when you put these photos up, do you know how many acres are required?
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Rusty Trombone
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Not necessarily, I imagine it will go to the highest bidder.
fernandopartridge
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Is that the former gas depot?
Rusty Trombone
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Was owned by National Grid I believe, can't say I know a lot about what it was used for, they were going to clean up the contamination a few years ago, which I assume happened.
Brylowes
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The Google map I'm looking at on my I pad show buildings and car park on that site, so I take
it they've gone now have they?
Must be showing me old maps
chiefdave
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Ricoh (just the stadium bowl itself, not the halls) is about 8 acres.
This is a good tool to use to find out: https://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-area-calculator-tool.htm
Rusty Trombone
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No, why would they have gone? As far as I know there isn't planning permission for anything else on the site yet.
Brylowes
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Erm because Otis identified it as a plot of derelict land , when I googled it there are buildings
and a car park on it, that's all .
chiefdave
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Looking on street map it looks like part of it is still in use by National Grid to park their vans. Rest of the site is overgrown and deteriorating.
Doesn't look like they've actually done anything other than just use a piece of spare land so in may just be in use until something else is built there. There are some houses and a church (gospel hall?) on the border of the site and its surrounded by housing and pretty narrow roads.
Doesn't look like they've actually done anything other than just use a piece of spare land so in may just be in use until something else is built there. There are some houses and a church (gospel hall?) on the border of the site and its surrounded by housing and pretty narrow roads.
Rusty Trombone
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Ok, I guess I got confused when you replied to me, when you were referring to something someone else said.
Brylowes
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Thanks Dave , so the larger building is still there but empty & derelict,
You don't get that detail from above.
dongonzalos
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Aston Martin were offered Browns lane 22 acres
Appreciate a stadium is different to a factory but it generates a 1000 jobs?
Aston Martin wanted it dirt cheap
But chose Wales instead
Brylowes
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That would be about same distance from city centre as Ricoh, but more rural a lot of green fields
between there and city centre. Mind you can see that area being swallowed up and built on in
next 20 years or so.
dongonzalos
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Houses or our brew stadium at 40k capacity plus a training/academy set up. Also room for parking. Aston Martin flagged up fir it who pulled out. So how about putting both sides to the test. See who really is bluffing?
Brylowes
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That whole area from M6 at keresley down to Allseley will probably get built up , the green belt lobby
are loosing the battle I think. People would moan about the stadium being out there , as they moan
about the Ricoh being to remote.
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Hobo
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Potentially ear marked for West Midlands Police as Little Park Street is due for closure. And looks far too tight to be viable for football stadium.
Otis
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I go past it regularly and there is nothing built there. It's an empty space.
Otis
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Well yeah, that's what I wondered, but from the aerial view on that map it looks almost exactly the same size area as the Butts.