Quote ="Prince Buster"Vasty
I was also extremely sceptical when I saw the plans, and I will add a 4th which your mate could try and help with.
Disability access !
If you read up on that, there must me a minimum number of disability parking spaces per 1000 spectators .
There are also maximum distances between ground entrance and these spaces which I believe is around 50 meteres.
You can get around this by having parking elsewhere and then shuttle service with pull in lay bys etc, all further complicated stuff if you read up on it.
Further to that, if this is classed as a new stadium then normal parking must also be provided in a certain ratio per 1000 spectators . I think its around 50 minimum so a 6000 stadium would require a further300 spaces. (These figures are not accurate but only from memory but a good stadium anorak could find them)
The only possible way around it from what I can see, is classing this as an upgrade to an existing stadium and not a new development.
But I am with you, its all a con , even it if it does happen it will be nothing more than a cheap facelift and way below normal modern stadia standards'"
Is that right regarding parking I thought is was going the other way nowadays and planning limiting parking to encourage use of public transport, it may be different for inner City stadium rather than out of town stadiums. Think this would be classed as upgrade of existing stadium so would apply, look at the size of spurs new ground with virtually no parking.
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