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Post by pappasmurf on May 18, 2015 7:23:41 GMT
As part of a face lifted Supporters Club before any future development, we will get mobile seating and planters in the car park looking like upturned vegetable crates and wooden pallets.
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Post by worththemost on May 18, 2015 7:54:01 GMT
I'm confused by the lack of rendering drawings too, although I think the one on the left pretty much matches the plan so that is the design with the right picture is an alternative. Anyhow, fingers crossed this all goes through...
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Post by utopia on May 18, 2015 7:59:42 GMT
It looks to me more like consultation material rather than final plans. Unless I've missed them I have seen nothing that looks like plans for the stands. They will certainly have to submit much more detailed drawings to the planners.
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Post by Lepus europaeus on May 18, 2015 8:13:58 GMT
It looks to me more like consultation material rather than final plans. Unless I've missed them I have seen nothing that looks like plans for the stands. They will certainly have to submit much more detailed drawings to the planners. You're right. This is consultation material. Make your views known.
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Post by worththemost on May 18, 2015 8:20:39 GMT
Wasn't the previous design for the community stadium @ Trumpington just consultation level too? Because for that there were lots of sketch drawings of both inside and outside the ground as well as detailed aerial plans.
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Post by Bendigeidfran on May 18, 2015 8:26:09 GMT
That roof is going to leak. Needs a pitch. I'd like the frontage to be a bit more rounded, or at least a bit more style so it doesn't look like a Morrisons. Exciting news though, hopefully it'll actually get a go ahead this time!!
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Post by Bendigeidfran on May 18, 2015 8:30:25 GMT
Also, where's the Berry good food bar? Ridiculous plans! Grosvenor out!
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Post by Jerry1971 on May 18, 2015 8:48:56 GMT
3,500 terrace standing places? Hmmmm. Low-cost approach to capacity increase paid for by ripping out the car parks and flogging them for profitable housing. Result - Abbey Stadium site shrinks. Very worried indeed about the 'phase' approach here, we could be left with a giant terrace after phase one, err, and that's it if the appetite is not there for phase two once the houses have been built and sold.
I know we have to work with the landlord here, and I admire Grosvenor greatly for all that they have done, and do for us (thanks chaps!) but I get the impression, maybe wrongly, that phase one contains not a jot of corporate space and feels, stadium wise, like an appeasement tool to get all the other stuff built. Still, at least we'll be able to drop into the pharmacy for headache pills when we've seen a poor display!
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Post by Fred Colon on May 18, 2015 9:16:12 GMT
I don't really understand the pharmacy idea. There's already one on Newmarket Road, one on Barnwell Road and one in Fen Ditton.
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Post by mikelan on May 18, 2015 9:16:36 GMT
I see the south side of the M11 is now part of the sporting village. Can't this be used for the new Abbey Stadium? it is then out of Trumpington and should reduce some of the complaintners objecting.
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Post by Doctor-of-Belles-Lettres on May 18, 2015 9:27:30 GMT
So, we won't be making much, if any non-match day revenue through a nhs centre and pharmacy? It will dispense sedatives to our elderly delinquents & Johnny Giles cream to Sneaky Fate, for application before the cycle-ride home.
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Post by Doctor-of-Belles-Lettres on May 18, 2015 9:32:47 GMT
The floodlights in the architect's terrible aerial plan are a crime against humanity.
Their representation by a child in the vision of the Corona's rear is more promising.
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Post by Jerrycamb on May 18, 2015 9:43:05 GMT
There are a few things in the plans that I am not convinced about. The training facilities on the far side of the M11 and the row of houses in the Abbey car park, also the alternative large L-shaped building in the front car park. I too would have liked to see more detailed drawings of the new stands. I have doubts this will make it through the planners without some alterations, but perhaps in these situations you have to deliberately reach for a bit more, then when you appear to compromise you actually get what you want. I do like the CUFC murals in the picture of the approach the North Stand.
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Post by rewsan on May 18, 2015 9:57:38 GMT
I'm a bit dissapointed with the lack of vision for what the final stadium will look like, the numbers look good though. I'm not happy with houses being built closer to the ground pinning un in even further.
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Post by Jerry1971 on May 18, 2015 10:03:10 GMT
Spot on Jerry. The first rule of any negotiation is to ask for a lot more than you actually a) want, and b) know that you have a realistic chance of getting. Hence the stretch beyond the M11 - it will clearly (SHHHHHHH!!) piss off the South Cambs brigade, but it will offer something to be quietly dropped for acceptance of the key aspect of the scheme, the sporting village bordered by the motorway and the lucrative housing to fund the whole shebang.
The simple reason in my mind why the bit over the other side (dark side??!) of the M11 will not happen is it will effectively begin to join Cambridge to Hauxton, which is in itself joined to Harston, and then the floodgates open. A massive South West expansion of the City will be uppermost in the South Cambs council mindset.
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