City purchase factory?

[goat boy]

Harrow had put the ground up for sale due to housing market flat.
Land has planning permission for houses already.

Hotel anyone??????(just rumour, to accommodate the day trppers)

Wife works for the firm that did all the ground work for the COMS and future Regeneration of surronding area.

Will ask her to do a bit of digging.

Presumably the Council planners can see that the City Centre is pretty well over-subscribed for housing nowadays, credit crunch or not. I understand there are hundreds or even thousands of places that are stood empty- have a look around those SportCity lots at night and how few of them actually have any lights on or any other signs of life. They're still building them up Bradford Road, and I know there's one old mill further up towards the stadium that has recently had a CPO lifted, so won't now be converted into flats. Surely a change in permissions would be fairly achievable?

There's clearly the Spring-like bud of a (rubbish) builders joke in the text of your post. I have not the wits to find it. Step forward, bluemooners. :)

 

[Ricster]

Wouldn't it be good if they called it Mercer Park?

Just a thought

 

[Challenger1978]

Aye, found it!

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=30833473&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

For an idea of scale scroll it to the left a couple of screens...

The Clayton Aniline is fucking massive mate It stretchs from Alan Turning way, mill st, Wilson st, Clayton lane, Croft st to Ashton new road. At a Guess its as big as the Area were COMS is and the car parks that are directly around it, Ashton new road, Rowsely st, New Viaduct st, Alan Turning way and up to the Cannal.

Edit:

Do i have the right place?

I'm quite pleased thatthe training ground might be there. I like the idea of the training headquarters being in the heart of the city rather than in a remote countryside-ish like at Carrington.

Its not just that blue circle immaculate seen all that green grass right up to allan turning way its all that as well.

 

[hgblue]

Harrow had put the ground up for sale due to housing market flat.
Land has planning permission for houses already.

Hotel anyone??????(just rumour, to accommodate the day trppers)

Wife works for the firm that did all the ground work for the COMS and future Regeneration of surronding area.

Will ask her to do a bit of digging.

Bloody hell! I hope she's got a bloody big spade!

 

[urmston]

I bet the players and staff won't be too pleased to move from Carrington to Clayton for most of their days at work. Carrington is very leafy and is quite near the posh areas where many of the players live and there's no need to go into Manchester.

 

[Challenger1978]

I bet the players and staff won't be too pleased to move from Carrington to Clayton for most of their days at work. Carrington is very leafy and is quite near the posh areas where many of the players live and there's no need to go into Manchester.

Maybe there doing it so the players can get a better feel for the Area and when needed just pop over to COMS for a bit of training you know for before a big game. You know like Hughes had them training at COMS when carrington pitch was frozen.

 

[goat boy]

Harrow had put the ground up for sale due to housing market flat.
Land has planning permission for houses already.

Hotel anyone??????(just rumour, to accommodate the day trppers)

Wife works for the firm that did all the ground work for the COMS and future Regeneration of surronding area.

Will ask her to do a bit of digging.

Bloody hell! I hope she's got a bloody big spade!

Ba-dum tish!

;)

 

[scall11]

Here's Carrington:
<a class="postlink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Carrington,+Manchester,+Trafford,+United+Kingdom&sll=9.586122,-98.554058&sspn=175.583855,360&ie=UTF8&cd=3&geocode=FZBULwMdkZvb_w&split=0&ll=53.430938,-2.37206&spn=0.008259,0.016007&t=h&z=16" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7&t=h&z=16</a>

and here's the factory:
<a class="postlink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=m113ff&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.744674,65.566406&ie=UTF8&ll=53.479772,-2.188232&spn=0.008249,0.016007&t=h&z=16" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 7&t=h&z=16</a>

Seems to me that both sites are about the same size. Now if we're going to move the training ground, it would make sense to go to a bigger site, rather than one of the same size, especially if we're going to move the Academy there.

It also makes sense to move the Academy out of Moss Side. It makes sense to move it near the stadium or the first team training ground.

I can't see the Arabs being stupid enough to build housing. As has already been mentioned, the Manchester property market is already saturated with empty apartments. These are Arabs at the end of the day, why do something that 100 other companies have done?

I think the Arabs are interested in Manchester as a city, not just because of our football club. They bought the club as a way of getting into the city. I don't think they're going to drop us, because if you want to develop and invest in a city, you don't p!ss off half the population by leaving the club in the shit!

They'll make our club into a world-class club, bring the big players in, and in turn you create Manchester as a destination. Maybe that's why they never bought the Rags, unfortunately they're 'there', whereas with a bit of development we can surpass the Rags. So in 10 years time you have a city boasting two of the best clubs in the world, and with that comes status like Milan and that's when you get tourists, investment, development and long-term wealth which is what the Arabs are interested in.

In simple terms, their source of wealth will run out in 50 years so they need to secure their future for when the oil runs out. Hedging some wealth in a city isn't bad business is it?

 

[Challenger1978]

scall1 look at this picture, the site is fucking huge way bigger than Carrington.




Seen that all in red thats all tied in to Clayton Analine (became Ciba i think) trust me mate i grew up in Clayton i know the area really well i've even got a couple of uncles that used to work there. Seen that bit in green thats not the Analine but all it is, is a couple of industrial units a garage and i think theres sort of a scrap yard there. If the owners throw a bit of money at the people those that own those sites you got a nice big square going onto the corner of Alan turning way and the New road just like COMS. And if you throw in the blue bit Mill st surgery (my doctors for the first 22 years of my life) you've got a proper nice square to work on.

 

[cleavers]

Harrow had put the ground up for sale due to housing market flat.
Land has planning permission for houses already.

Hotel anyone??????(just rumour, to accommodate the day trppers)

Wife works for the firm that did all the ground work for the COMS and future Regeneration of surronding area.

Will ask her to do a bit of digging.

I thought City had loads of money now, surely we can afford proper builders, without asking our wives to chip in.