Coventry Airport (22 Viewers)

[Astute]

That's not the point I was making.

The move to the Ricoh should be enough of a bad advertisement for what happens to a club when you move its home away from its heart.

Yea fuck it. Lets go to Northampton instead.

 

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[Hobo]

The old brickwork Foleshill Road is being cleared and a massive site. I don't know what's going on it...housing I would guess. But more than big enough for a stadium and add on's.

 

[Astute]

from the BBC...


.... The urban landscape accounts for 10.6% of England, 1.9% of Scotland, 3.6% of Northern Ireland and 4.1% of Wales.

Put another way, that means almost 93% of the UK is not urban. But even that isn't the end of the story because urban is not the same as built on.

The 2% is to do with one of the lies to do with Brexit. Many believe it to be the truth.

But enough of that. We have a thread for that crap.

 

[Astute]

The old brickwork Foleshill Road is being cleared and a massive site. I don't know what's going on it...housing I would guess. But more than big enough for a stadium and add on's.

If it has planning permission for houses the land will be too valuable for a stadium.

 

[Astute]

So let's just live in a country as it was in 1950 despite increasing population?

Let's protect the house values of a few retirees so I can raise my kids in overcrowded housing?

How's about no. We are at something like 2% urban development in this country, we can afford to lose a bit more and build decent houses for people and jobs for them to go to. Earlsdon and Foleshill got subsumed into Coventry, that's how growth works.

Maybe if we didn't protect the green belt like we do we wouldn't end up with tiny idyllic villages and shit hole towns, maybe we could build towns people don't immediately want to move out of?

I'm an environmentalist, don't get me wrong, but the green belt is a sledgehammer to crack a nut IMO. You could do the same work with proper planning laws.

Planning laws have been relaxed for years. Villages have been multiplying in size in some places. But building houses in the countryside doesn't suddenly make slum areas nice. They have to be pulled down and then start again.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Well CCC voted to become part of Birmingham, sorry WM, and not join up with Warwickshire.....

Part of me?

 

[vow]

Part of me?

Yes, you could do with expanding

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Yea fuck it. Lets go to Northampton instead.

Ultimately our move to the Ricoh led to our move to Northampton.

Had we never left Highfield Road it would never have happened.

If you want to attract fans back, it would need to be back in the heart of the city. Not that a new stadium will happen...

 

[Astute]

Ultimately our move to the Ricoh led to our move to Northampton.

Had we never left Highfield Road it would never have happened.

If you want to attract fans back, it would need to be back in the heart of the city. Not that a new stadium will happen...

We need a stadium that isn't too big, too small, easy parking without ripoff charges, easy to get to and somewhere within Coventry. And it needs to be ours.

It doesn't have to be in or near the City centre.

 

[Grendel]

It was to build on the styrip separating Coventry from baginton, wasn't it?

Guess tbf, we could build between Meriden and Coventry and Birmingham, and merge Coventry into Birmingham. To be expected with them so close to each other, after all...

Happening already - a huge housing development across Pickford green is plamned

 

[Moff]

We need a stadium that isn't too big, too small, easy parking without ripoff charges, easy to get to and somewhere within Coventry. And it needs to be ours.

It doesn't have to be in or near the City centre.

Careful you will make Fishers head spin with that wish list. Its taken him years to not find any land let alone plan a new stadium with his crayon set.

 

[Astute]

Careful you will make Fishers head spin with that wish list. Its taken him years to not find any land let alone plan a new stadium with his crayon set.

This was supposed to be a serious thread about a new stadium for our football club. Why mention Fisher?

 

[the rumpo kid]

If we ever get rid of sisu and if we ever get the council back on side . Morris common would be ideal . well inside the city . plenty of good transport links. Much closer to the city centre . easily big enough for a ground plus parking and maybe some shopping. Plus the old haley roe builders yard across the road (more parking) . if only.

 

[Seamus1]

Coventry airport would be a no go. I personally cannot see land on the site that would allow for both airport operations and a football stadium. Furthermore, the height of a stadium would pose problems for the navigation instruments for aircraft to land.

I also cannot see how the land would be suitable for a JLR factory, the way the land tapers at the end would not provide much use for a factory wanting to produce tens of thousands of cars per annum. Residents of baginton would also be in uproar at a factory being built at the baginton end of the site.

 

[clint van damme]

if I said I'm knocking down my shed we could build a new stadium in it's place it would get a 20 pager on here complete with google map aerial shots with obscure foreign stadia super imposed onto them!!

 

[Deleted member 5849]

if I said I'm knocking down my shed we could build a new stadium in it's place it would get a 20 pager on here complete with google map aerial shots with obscure foreign stadia super imposed onto them!!

Wonder if the Vicente Calderon would be cheaper for me to buy and erect than popping to B&Q.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Yes, you could do with expanding

Very good!

 

[Grendel]

So let's just live in a country as it was in 1950 despite increasing population?

Let's protect the house values of a few retirees so I can raise my kids in overcrowded housing?

How's about no. We are at something like 2% urban development in this country, we can afford to lose a bit more and build decent houses for people and jobs for them to go to. Earlsdon and Foleshill got subsumed into Coventry, that's how growth works.

Maybe if we didn't protect the green belt like we do we wouldn't end up with tiny idyllic villages and shit hole towns, maybe we could build towns people don't immediately want to move out of?

I'm an environmentalist, don't get me wrong, but the green belt is a sledgehammer to crack a nut IMO. You could do the same work with proper planning laws.

What a jealous little man you are

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Ultimately our move to the Ricoh led to our move to Northampton.

Had we never left Highfield Road it would never have happened.

If you want to attract fans back, it would need to be back in the heart of the city. Not that a new stadium will happen...

Much too simplistic, whether we should have moved can be debated but what can't be denied is that the club/stakeholders/owners have contributed to an absolute clusterfuck.
Anybody who finds the Ricoh an inconvenience should be reminded what the alternative is.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

No pun intended but isn't talk of a new stadium anywhere just pie in the sky?

 

[vow]

Very good!

Couldn't resist, sorry WM!

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

Mind, it would be good for top trumps.
Ricoh Arena Train Station? Pah, we've got our own airport...so stick that up yer pipe!

 

[Otis]

Mind, it would be good for top trumps.
Ricoh Arena Train Station? Pah, we've got our own airport...so stick that up yer pipe!

Yeah and no-one will be trying to give Fisher abuse at the airport terminal platform, though some would still argue that he could have got a later plane.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

What a jealous little man you are

What a horrible little man you are

 

[Moff]

This was supposed to be a serious thread about a new stadium for our football club. Why mention Fisher?

Cheeky

 

[Mcbean]

would suit me or you sir but the Bubbenhall massive are slitting their wrists at the thought

 

[Grendel]

What a horrible little man you are

So you buy into his rhetoric do you. Screw the retirees who've worked all their lives, often in adversity, and provide handouts and benefits to an expectant generation who can't be bothered to pay their own way.

What a great society that's going to be

 

[RFC]

Although it isn't going to happen, it's actually closer than the Ricoh.

Anything’s possible but not saying it’ll happen!

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Anything’s possible but not saying it’ll happen!

This is a seismic breakthrough!

 

[vow]

Anything’s possible but not saying it’ll happen!

Wise words m8!

 

[torchomatic]

Its in Nimbyland Otis.
Warwick District Council would pretty much put a stop to it before plans had been drawn up.
The Airport never expanded due to WDC, and the Gateway project from Sir Peter Rigby was also rejected.
If one of the Midlands best Entrepreneurs cant get the Gateway completed there is no chance for Fisher and Co.

And it never expanded due to the nimbys in Stoneleigh and baginton.

 

[fernandopartridge]

If we ever get rid of sisu and if we ever get the council back on side . Morris common would be ideal . well inside the city . plenty of good transport links. Much closer to the city centre . easily big enough for a ground plus parking and maybe some shopping. Plus the old haley roe builders yard across the road (more parking) . if only.

You can't build on common land can you?

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[Hobo]

If it has planning permission for houses the land will be too valuable for a stadium.

I am only guessing....does anyone know what is happening on the Foleshill Rd brickworks site it is massive.

 

[Gaz71]

Think there will be a pilot scheme first.

Don’t try and wing it, things are finally starting to look up.

 

[Astute]

Mind, it would be good for top trumps.
Ricoh Arena Train Station? Pah, we've got our own airport...so stick that up yer pipe!

But we wouldn't be allowed to get on a plane until a couple of hours after the game.