The Middleton Rd side of Heaton Park would be good from the north with decent links to trunk roads and motorways.
North Stand Expansion
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Holcombe bloo
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Sounds good to me
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Yas and Saadiyat would be better....Beach,Golf Links,F1,Ferrari World,Louvre, Guugenheim,Zayed Museum.....Coolture is wot we wont !!
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It's great that the stand got the go-ahead and it is the stand that a vast majority of the people wanted, but there are still fundamental issues and some small issues that need to be sorted.
The fundamental issue that needs to be sorted out as soon as possible is the traffic at the stadium and no sign of a train station or other improvements regarding transport this will come to a head with the COOP live to open its doors and also the stadium is in use.
The club can build amazing entertainment space but a vast majority of people will still leave after 90 mons to go home. The east solution is to build a station but where????, as I said yesterday the club should lease some buses that go to a park and ride in the city the club would make money by having adverts all over the buses this is a short-term solution to a major problem.
The other small problem that needs to be sorted is what was raised in objections raised with the council planners is the design of the hotel as I said before in my post the design of the outside of the hotel could be amended easily enough by installing a large sail design instead of the small fin design they have gone with.
The other small issue is the GA+ section in the new North Stand, 1894 and City Matters are supposed to be having a meeting with Danny Wilson about this but still to this day nothing.
@Manchester33 & @trevorriley
The fundamental issue that needs to be sorted out as soon as possible is the traffic at the stadium and no sign of a train station or other improvements regarding transport this will come to a head with the COOP live to open its doors and also the stadium is in use.
The club can build amazing entertainment space but a vast majority of people will still leave after 90 mons to go home. The east solution is to build a station but where????, as I said yesterday the club should lease some buses that go to a park and ride in the city the club would make money by having adverts all over the buses this is a short-term solution to a major problem.
The other small problem that needs to be sorted is what was raised in objections raised with the council planners is the design of the hotel as I said before in my post the design of the outside of the hotel could be amended easily enough by installing a large sail design instead of the small fin design they have gone with.
The other small issue is the GA+ section in the new North Stand, 1894 and City Matters are supposed to be having a meeting with Danny Wilson about this but still to this day nothing.
@Manchester33 & @trevorriley
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Can I criticize this?
I really, really, hate it.
It looks stuck on and an after thought.
It really doesn't lend itself to the exterior shape of the stadium or tie in with it.
It's a dreadful and lazy piece of architecture.
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Internal. (windows)
I really, really, hate it.
It looks stuck on and an after thought.
It really doesn't lend itself to the exterior shape of the stadium or tie in with it.
It's a dreadful and lazy piece of architecture.
Enlarged, hence being slightly blurred.
External.
Internal. (windows)
HelloCity
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For education purposes, I can tell you the areas you refer to are in relation to long term planning and where the sides will join up to when expanded a few years from now. There's nothing dreadful or lazy about it really, in fact, it's to help avoid design issues which have plagued stadiums such as Old Trafford where the corners don't link in properly with the sides. It might not look pristinely perfect right now, but the design will make the architects and builders jobs a lot easier several years from now and give us a much better final result. To be honest, they're doing a much better job of 'fudging' the corners than they did with the South Stand...
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wolfie1988
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To improve atmosphere and the way the noise travels, as most requested on here, there has to be an enclosed feeling to it rather than the gaping-ness of the South end. The noise should reverberate well of that boxy feel of the interior and the exterior section will fit in well with the squared off hotel and other attachments
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just looked up sandhills again I remember now that it’s a fair way off, prob looking at 30 min walk or 8 to 10 mins on a shuttle bus from the stadium. Would have to be bus for most! On the subject of upping the power from stadium line only, anybody know how possible this is and idea on cost of upgrading if so?
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