Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Mar 20, 2024 15:50:35 GMT
The cost for the application sound ridiculous. How would it break down? (Very approximately.)
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Post by Mike Osbourn on Mar 20, 2024 16:11:24 GMT
Most of the cost will be spread across consultants fees, as opposed to the application fee payable to the LPA, but even if you work on the basis that each consultant will earn say (on average, very crudely - it will vary wildly in practice) £20k for 18 months work, which isn't unusual for a project like this, you need to realise how many different documents are required, and how many disciplines plug into it.
I won't break the costs down per item, but for any major proposal you need to factor in a lot of the following, and some times more:
Planning application fee due to the Local Planning Authority, who also charge for pre-application meetings. Planning Consultant Environmental Impact Assessment Consultant Architect Transport Consultant Ecology Consultant Energy Consultant Drainage and Flooding Consultant Fire Safety Consultant Public Consultation Consultant Archaeology and Heritage Consultant Other specialist disciplines - football will have some unique elements to deal with, such as crowd/matchday safety Lawyers
Gone are the days you could draw up some simple plans for a scheme like this and just slap it in. It's why sme builders are struggling to survive. The cost of getting planning permission alone has massively gone up in the last decade or so as the planning requirements have become more complex. That's not a Cambridge-specific issue either, but a result of national (and sometimes european level) legislation changes.
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Mar 20, 2024 17:29:46 GMT
Thanks Mike 👍
I hope Coldhams Common is not overrun by great crested newts.
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Post by cufctheparrot on Mar 20, 2024 18:26:49 GMT
This was seating installed to offer away supporters a seat option for games, remembering those were the days when we were in what is now the Championship and despite football being at a very low ebb compared to now, we had frequent away sell-outs for the allotment end as it was. The seats ran in an odd formation in the area between the disused tea bar at the back of the Habbin and the half way line, and were angled diagonally with the longest run of seating toward the front and the shortest run at the back (if that makes any sense) to try to provide sightlines for those sitting down. More often than not the seats had very little use! They were very weirdly and awkwardly laid out, by necessity to offer a sightline of all the pitch, but I can't imagine many supporters actually sitting down on them. Which sort of defeated the object of having seats available! Thats was our area of choice when attending in the mid 90s with my dad. It was quite often a good laugh standing at the caged wall and the banter with the away supporters just the other side of the fence. A lot more civilised than now when you need about 20 columns of seats between supporters. The seats were reasonably well used actually (well not the seats but the space), and the reaction of away supporters when they saw the view of the NRE goal from their seats was nearly always entertaining. Even though it was only a wire fence between home and away supporters I only ever saw problems at one match, when drinks were thrown between supporters. We must have ben a lot more well behaved in those days than now?
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danielcufc
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Post by danielcufc on Apr 28, 2024 14:11:55 GMT
Just shows why we need to get the redevelopment on the way
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Post by TallPaddy on Apr 28, 2024 14:18:00 GMT
Just shows why we need to get the redevelopment on the way That's amazing. I'd love to see the breakdown of home and away tickets
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Post by cufcwill on Apr 28, 2024 14:33:26 GMT
Just shows why we need to get the redevelopment on the way That's amazing. I'd love to see the breakdown of home and away tickets 5867 average home I believe. 8 games with over 6,000 home fans compared with just 3 last season so very positive to see.
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Dylan
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Post by Dylan on Apr 28, 2024 14:39:01 GMT
This kind of average would have seemed fanciful ten years ago as we were limbering up to take ourselves out of non league.
Makes me wonder if we'll be averaging 10,000+ in 2034 in the redeveloped Abbey 😲
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Post by Denton on Apr 28, 2024 17:18:48 GMT
This kind of average would have seemed fanciful ten years ago as we were limbering up to take ourselves out of non league. Makes me wonder if we'll be averaging 10,000+ in 2034 in the redeveloped Abbey 😲 I miss the glory days of playing for Duxford at 2pm every week and then "getting injured" at halftime so I could speed to the Abbey for 3:05, park right outside the main stand and then walk in to join the other 1800 people.
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Post by cufc1 on Apr 28, 2024 17:26:21 GMT
Amazing news, just shows the policy of sustainable growth over time is the way to go, clearly thier will come a time where it will end as the capacity of the Abbey will be reached, but all that time spend on marketing, etc is paying off. Wonder what target United will have with season ticket sales and any improvements made to the abbey over the summer.
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Post by martinjohn on Apr 28, 2024 17:31:01 GMT
If the rumour of giving us the south stand is true, I reckon we could see another year of growth next season.
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Post by cufc1 on Apr 28, 2024 17:46:22 GMT
If the rumour of giving us the south stand is true, I reckon we could see another year of growth next season. So where are they planning to put away fans then??
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Post by El Goodo on Apr 28, 2024 18:01:28 GMT
If the rumour of giving us the south stand is true, I reckon we could see another year of growth next season. So where are they planning to put away fans then?? Habbin South with some seats bolted in.
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Post by malotru on Apr 28, 2024 18:56:07 GMT
So where are they planning to put away fans then?? Habbin South with some seats bolted in. The 90’s are back in fashion. I remember once we gave Birmingham the entire Habbin aswell. I wonder if that’s a thought if we make the South Stand a home area.
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Post by flouncingarburyboy on Apr 28, 2024 19:06:28 GMT
If the rumour of giving us the south stand is true, I reckon we could see another year of growth next season. So where are they planning to put away fans then?? A Monk's Cauldron.
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