MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Yeah but they're calling it a master plan now.
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The World Famous City Ground - Home of the PROPER WORLD‘S OLDEST LEAGUE CLUB
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GOBIAS
Ian Bowyer
Or he was pissed at the time
REDDERS78
Jack Armstrong
I wonder if there's some sort of negotiation with the council for other land?
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Clearly all options are open, as they must be. However, a master plan / implies some details / implies negotiation with Rushcliffe / boat club ..... if I had a 'master plan' I'd be shouting it from the rooftops. It sounds like more flannel to me, I hope that I am wrong though. To be fair, I'll go and read the article in The Athletic.
shearstone
Misses the champ
Surely if EM offers the council a decent whack for the freehold the bankrupt council will take it?
Masuka
Jack Burkitt
Are those shipping containers going to be permanent then?? Hope it doesn’t look as bad as I imagine but all I can think of is this monstrosity at Oakwell
donny
Grenville Morris
Used to be some at Belle Vue (both Donny and Wakefield) that made them look tame.
The Wakey ones -
It's Baggio
John Robertson
I know the bloke that owns Britannia Drilling. He threatened to withdraw his sponsorship when they wouldn't let him sit in his Exec box during lockdown.
Masuka
Jack Burkitt
I’m interested in seeing the training ground plans. I would like it if we built it in a location that would piss off the sheep after they used to go on about how amazing moor farm was…
Do we own the land at Wilford lane as I’m guessing that would be worth a fair bit if it was sold for housing… which would finance the new training ground
Do we own the land at Wilford lane as I’m guessing that would be worth a fair bit if it was sold for housing… which would finance the new training ground
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
Did they still charge him for it?
Exec boxes are distanced so actually there probably wouldn't have been much of a virus risk from allowing that either. Provided they could manage the flow of people going in and out (staggered entry and exit times and observing 2m in communal areas for example) they probably could have used them.
But then, being in the stands is open air.
Looking back a lot of stuff which wasn't allowed during lockdown probably didn't have much effect on stopping the virus.
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Forest will ave to pay over the odds as the site is prime residential, but if I had the cash, I'd JFDI because it'll be worth it in the long run.
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
I think we do. It was the County Council Sports group and I'm sure Forest bought it. Yes, prime spot for housing but planning would be an issue .. not insurmountable I think, but not straightforward either because of the amount of building that has occurred along Wilford lane and the Greythron Drive site would add to traffic, be the 'last one' to be built, and the existing bungalows would whinge a lot.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
The site is protected by a restrictive covenant ensuring that the land can only be utilised for recreational purposes, be it privately (as it is now) or for public use (as it was).
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Housing won't be built there.
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Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Thanks for the heads up. What will become of the site then? I wonder if we could sell it to the Sadpies?
It's Baggio
John Robertson
I think he got some money back, or a discount for the following season. I don't think the club were opposed to letting him in, it's just the guidelines didn't allow for it.
Redemption
Chief Eye Roller
Im not doubting this new information
But here's the council's decision minute on the extension of the lease
But here's the council's decision minute on the extension of the lease
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committee.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
I've read the article and it got me excited. To be sure there's a big element of 'expectation management' in there, and probably it is, to an extent, a reaction to the negativity and cynicism that is current amongst the supporter base.
Positives: aspirational, 40,000 or more, new training base (urgently required and I know of enquiries being made over some years), aware of icome generation potential, sustainability (solar panels), benefits for the wider economy ... all good.
Negatives: obviously the big bad apple is the lease (spa will happen unless they can sort that, or purchase the freehold), nothing about safe standing, nothing about creating an 'end', nothing about where the visiting supporters will be located.
All done by 2027? Be lovely if true. Expanded Bridgford, plans 'ready to go in'? Well, that will be a planning battle for sure because to increase the capacity by 5,000 there means that the stand will be higher, so we're into light issues as well as access. It would look great and it is needed, and obviously Tom Cartledge believes that it is possible so let's hope he is correct.
The get out is "if we can't sort it we'll have to relocate but we don't want to". To put it another way, if it's cheaper, easier and gives us a better solution, we will move and blame someone else.
Overall though reading that has given me an increased sense of optimism. Forest PR dept please take note.
Positives: aspirational, 40,000 or more, new training base (urgently required and I know of enquiries being made over some years), aware of icome generation potential, sustainability (solar panels), benefits for the wider economy ... all good.
Negatives: obviously the big bad apple is the lease (spa will happen unless they can sort that, or purchase the freehold), nothing about safe standing, nothing about creating an 'end', nothing about where the visiting supporters will be located.
All done by 2027? Be lovely if true. Expanded Bridgford, plans 'ready to go in'? Well, that will be a planning battle for sure because to increase the capacity by 5,000 there means that the stand will be higher, so we're into light issues as well as access. It would look great and it is needed, and obviously Tom Cartledge believes that it is possible so let's hope he is correct.
The get out is "if we can't sort it we'll have to relocate but we don't want to". To put it another way, if it's cheaper, easier and gives us a better solution, we will move and blame someone else.
Overall though reading that has given me an increased sense of optimism. Forest PR dept please take note.
Mr. Blonde
Jack Burkitt
I hope this museum they mention will be one dedicated to Alf's Microsoft Paint artwork
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
That's helpful, thanks. It should get done then.
I have it on good authority* that the Museum will also include printouts of the entire „LTLF Gold“ section of this very forum?
* lies
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Renting Trent Pool from us is more than sufficient for that lot, and I can't see them applying for an academy category-level that would require them to have need of a site as big as the NDA.
Selling to a commercial enterprise is possible I suppose - golf ranges, tennis/squash courts, that sort of thing?
County could train in the car park of the Dog & Duck, that’s about their level.
football post
I'm still here Crewton
"Ze List" should be the first thing you see as you enter the building
If, hypothetically, the First Team did move elsewhere then I'd imagine the club would still get plenty use out of the site, for Academy sides, and possibly even could give the Womens team their own home ground.
They're currently building new facilities for the Academy on the site, so I'd imagine there's a long term future there. The site wasn't originally intended for the First Team anyway.