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Post by WelshDolphin on Mar 13, 2024 15:51:33 GMT
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Post by rob bayston on Mar 13, 2024 17:01:13 GMT
Please let Expat know ( I wonder if it’s the stadium after all) 🤪
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Post by WelshDolphin on Mar 13, 2024 17:16:17 GMT
Please let Expat know ( I wonder if it’s the stadium after all) 🤪 We should find out in a month or two, I've spent way too long on the council website this afternoon trying to work out where the site might be to no avail, but I've read that the Council's Draft Local Plan has to be published in March or April and submitted for examination by June. We should be able to narrow it down or even work it out from the areas designated for community and recreation use on the new plan and compare them to the last one. It's happening.........hopefully! |
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Post by peterlep on Mar 13, 2024 18:03:24 GMT
2 positive pieces of news together!
I know we are all not going to get too excited due to the number of false starts in the past - but this genuinely does look very promising.
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Post by peterlep on Mar 13, 2024 18:04:14 GMT
Please let Expat know ( I wonder if it’s the stadium after all) 🤪 Rob - I thought you and expat regularly texted each other!! |
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Post by ballboy on Mar 13, 2024 19:07:00 GMT
I will believe this when the new ground is built and the team playing in it.
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Post by BD on Mar 13, 2024 23:58:05 GMT
Nothing new under the Sun here. Still the same old rhetoric, just with a different spin on it.... except the confidentiality clause. Until there is something tangible, this is just words, nothing more.
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Post by expat on Mar 14, 2024 9:36:03 GMT
keep the Town in Poole!!!
Bourne valley ? Given over to Dog walkers
Bearwood.? Given over to housing and bear wood Bob.
There are currently two sites in the Ancient Town and borough
Where football USED to be played at a semi
Pro level.Alas both non functioning
Creekmoor? They will not want us either!
Any buses or trains (!!) there?
is The Stadium wanted for housing as well because if not
Location
Transportation
Capable of multiplex redevelopment
And quite a long distance from nimbys
I
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Post by WelshDolphin on Mar 14, 2024 12:28:31 GMT
keep the Town in Poole!!! Creekmoor? They will not want us either! Any buses or trains (!!) there? is The Stadium wanted for housing as well because if not Location Transportation Capable of multiplex redevelopment And quite a long distance from nimbys I I think there's a lot to be said for the site at Creekmoor that are currently fields between Upton Rd and Northmoor Drive. Given the right layout it won't be too close to that many houses and if it's a community stadium with a 3G surface next to it for use by the people of Poole (a la New Cuthbury) through the week then I can see that placating any NIMBYs. There are 2 busses an hour on Saturdays to Northmead Drive, and late busses back to Poole for midweek evening kick-offs, and it's only a 10 minute journey from Poole Station so transportation is no issue. Given the size of the site there should be ample parking anyway or the P&R side across the road could also be put to some use finally. It would be my preferred site (assuming the old stadium is a non-starter) and done well would be a real asset to the club and the community. According the the statement the area they are looking at has been designated for recreation and community use instead of housing so wherever it is, that's not an issue. Like lots of others, and given our various false dawns, I'll believe we're having a new stadium (wherever it may be) when I'm stood in it. This time, I'm oddly hopeful. |
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Post by grandad on Mar 15, 2024 16:16:52 GMT
This information is great if it comes to fruition, but a lot of us have heard similar proposals before that, for one reason or another, have not materialised. Hopefully this time BCP council and our club directors will be able to deliver more than just hot air. If I am sceptical, who can honestly blame me. Opinions are best based on previous experiences and the dependability of those that provide the current information. As individuals we must make our own personal decisions on what we perceive the anticipated outcome will be. Should we be fortunate enough to achieve what is currently being mooted, lets just hope that this time, it is not thrown away by club mismanagement, as happenned with the stadium.
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Post by John Anderson on Mar 16, 2024 17:03:06 GMT
I cannot remember the exact details of the restrictions on the Stadiou, site except that it was for the good of the people of Poole. That can be interpreted as no housing , industrial or retail. It is clear that in its current commercial guise, it has no future. So some sort of community hub would probably fit that but it depends on how watertight the conditions are and whether the cost of demolition and rebuilding make sense.
The Creekmoor site is served well by buses , both the 3 and 4 stop a few hundred yards away but a new facility could result in a change of route for one or both.
I have said many times that a new Stadium is more important in the short term than success on the field and despite our current form, I stick by that.However, another promise of jam tomorrow will not stop the furore of 9 defeats in 10 games.
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Post by melvyn on Mar 17, 2024 13:13:53 GMT
The passenger trains to and from Creekmoor were stopped due to the Beeching cuts in the mid sixties. (I have vague memories of catching said trains with my mother). No commercial traffic since the late seventies and the line is now a dual carriageway. Like we need more road traffic in this country. :-( But there is a bus service. Not sure where you would put a pitch though, it's all been built on.
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Post by grandad on Mar 17, 2024 15:53:22 GMT
Melvyn.
North of the old Upton dual carriageway, starting from adjacent to the Upton House roundabout and all the way down to the exit from the virtually unused park & ride car park is grassland fields, sometimes, but not often used by the nearby farm for grazing sheep or cows. It's easily big enough area to house an enclosed football stadium and other sporting / leisure facilities. In all my 70+ years I have never seen it flooded. Nearby is a large housing estate, which would be a great catchment area for supporters, both old and new. It is well serviced by the local bus company and has good road access. I've thought for many years that it would be the ideal spot for Poole Town but was told that it had been earmarked for a new school for the Creekmoor area. If this is not the case, we should snap it up quick. You won't find anywhere better within the borough. Dream on grandad..........
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Post by grandad on Mar 17, 2024 15:55:30 GMT
P.S. I'm told the land is owned by the council but leased to the local farm
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Post by expat on Mar 18, 2024 19:20:14 GMT
Yeah right.A. Real Green solution from Poole Town! Banksy just emphasized the problem with his new mural!
I would say the chance of building a car oriented multiplex on a green field site are. Not great and do you think it will be
Popular amongst the BC P masses?’
put football and sport back into Poole Stadium and
Keep the Town in Poole!
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Post by melvyn on Mar 22, 2024 21:26:11 GMT
After 57 years as a third generation Poole Town fan I am no longer a supporter of the club. This is down to the dishonourable way in which Tommy Killick was sacked, also very poor timing. Rossiter has sullied the club's name. That said I do hope that Poole find a permanent home. Though growing up in Creekmoor on the 60s and 70s the woods always flooded and then the bottom end of Millfield when it was built. I hope that the potential site works out.
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