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All this talk about knocking the tower blocks down is making me feel old,

I was an apprentice working on those flats when I left school,

We left school at 15 in my day not 18 or 19.

BUT

If they are to come down can I press the button please.?

I cannot believe that people are still on about Freeman Street or the docks as suitable sites for the new stadium!!! JF went into great lengths to explain the unsuitability of both these sites yet some fans still think they could be used. FFS ! Too many parts of the Freeman Street area are privately owned and trying to co-ordinate the purchase of these sites would be a nightmare. Access is very limited with very little scope for road expansion. The docks are owned by ABP who would never sell/lease any land for a football stadium especially now wind energy is the new boy in town and probably far more lucrative for them to consider that as opposed to a stadium. Obviously it would appear the Council have identified one or two alternative sites to the PP but we will have to wait to see what is revealed.

Quoted from rancido

I cannot believe that people are still on about Freeman Street or the docks as suitable sites for the new stadium!!! JF went into great lengths to explain the unsuitability of both these sites yet some fans still think they could be used. FFS ! Too many parts of the Freeman Street area are privately owned and trying to co-ordinate the purchase of these sites would be a nightmare. Access is very limited with very little scope for road expansion. The docks are owned by ABP who would never sell/lease any land for a football stadium especially now wind energy is the new boy in town and probably far more lucrative for them to consider that as opposed to a stadium. Obviously it would appear the Council have identified one or two alternative sites to the PP but we will have to wait to see what is revealed.

We just seem to be going round in circles whilst other clubs find a site, buy it and build on it.

The old Tioxide site for me would be the perfect location. Good motorway links, cheap land away from residential areas and therefore moaning Nimbys! Surely a better site than Peaks Parkway imo

Quoted from Pint of Mild Please Batchy

The old Tioxide site for me would be the perfect location. Good motorway links, cheap land away from residential areas and therefore moaning Nimbys! Surely a better site than Peaks Parkway imo

And a nice waft of shite from the sewerage plant near by......great idea that  

Quoted from Dan

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This is BP overlayed on to the site of the flats. It clearly doesn't fit without knocking down loads more buildings. Not to mentioned the fact that a new stadium would be bigger, need car parking, and an enabling development.

It's nonsense to believe it can go here without razing half the street and surrounding houses (which to be fair probably needs doing, but would be politically difficult)

I think you'll find that the mini flats/masionettes around market and the first three towers is enough room for a ground leaving the space were the other three towers are for car parking or other ventures. The houses around the other flats may belong to the Freemans, not sure.

I was told by someone to do with the flats that they were being considered by the council for a new ground but we know our councils ideas changes with tide.

Quoted from Pint of Mild Please Batchy

The old Tioxide site for me would be the perfect location. Good motorway links, cheap land away from residential areas and therefore moaning Nimbys! Surely a better site than Peaks Parkway imo

We would never in a million years get planning permission for a stadium on that strip of land north of the A180. The land along that strip by the Humber Bank is for Industrial use only and has been categorised as such for a long time.

Quoted from ackomariner

And a nice waft of shite from the sewerage plant near by......great idea that  

I wanna go home, I wanna go ho-o-ome, Grimsby's a sh!ithole I wanna go home

Quoted from rancido

We would never in a million years get planning permission for a stadium on that strip of land north of the A180. The land along that strip by the Humber Bank is for Industrial use only and has been categorised as such for a long time.

Hook Line Sinker

Quoted from Pint of Mild Please Batchy

The old Tioxide site for me would be the perfect location. Good motorway links, cheap land away from residential areas and therefore moaning Nimbys! Surely a better site than Peaks Parkway imo

NOT SUITABLE