You sure that wasn't you?Originally Posted by Thistownneedsastadium
Stadium Watch 3
You sure that wasn't you?
"Engineers aren't boring people; we just get excited over boring things"
So.......
The 60 week countdown, when does that start do you think? From when contracts were signed? From when then office cabins go on site? From when the demolition work starts? Or from when building work starts?
Anyone know?
Signed up for 11 x 5 year north stand ST's yesterday ( friday 13th ), tons of seats alerady sold in that gaff, which is great news for the club.
I heard that Barr will be using the cabins vacated by Birse when they finish their job,
also that Langtree have not yet applied to the Council for a demolision permit, but will get one within 24 hours when they do.
I have also been told that the second phase on the stadium site has altered, new away coach parking as been found off-site, and that Langtree are looking to build new retail outlets or even an hotel.
You're not saying that the club didn't consider away coaches when submitting their plans?!? Or is it that places for away coaches have been thrown off the site?
Somehow it seems unlikely that the spec will change in any way now that the contractor has been appointed because new planning permission would have to be granted, etc, and that would push everything back.
On the plans there are temporary coach parking places, to the right of the inner stadium road, from what I got told these wont be used now, a road near by has been identified and ok'd by the council, I know the name of the road but that would be going to far with this info.
It dosen't leave a great deal of parking space left for a Supermarket the size of this one, spec dosen't alter phase two is seperate from the stadium/Tesco site.
Looks like Langtree have hit the jackpot with this site, wanting to bring Phase two to the starting line.
lets hope so and lets hope it gets going ASAP although we've plenty of time before the start of 2012 season.
Or they may have advanced their plans with the development in town moving ahead as well now?
Makes you wonder what will be left in the town centre when all these retail spaces open.
Night clubs and lots of swanky empty apartments.
Sounds.....er great!
Reading the match day magazine, and our chairman states that they "may well sell more season tickets at Widnes than we have at Knowsley road.....those that do not possess season tickets, run the risk of being locked out for bigger games".
So they've started to resort to threats, now, huh? ;-)
just put you right there kidder,,,,,,,,,,,,, it's luminous not aluminous hahahahaha you can tell i was edumacated at st austins thatto heath can't you lol, proper donkey commoner me kidder.
nah.................... thats the after game bath for the refs and touchies.
Cheers. I'd be a poor editor in newspapers.
anymore pics people ?
Just copy and paste the previous weeks pics. Nothing's changed.
Yet!!
Pre-Match drinks?
try the George Hotel , George St
St Helens , A real Saints pub
Lol. Been waiting for that comment.
Luckily the cars are different each week. Not so sure about about alternate weeks though.only joking. A start is round the corner
Am sure we were supposed to be starting building in July? It is now looking like September at the earliest!
I'm starting to think that they've come accross another obsticle with the contsruction. It was announced well over a month ago now that "A contractor has been appointed with work to start the same week" (or words to that effect).
I thought they'd have at least started to demolish the old warehouses.
For about only the second time in history, I'm with Stevo on this one. I'll only believe it's happening when I start to see bricks being laid.
Well if you look far back in this thread, some of the fans involved in the construction business were saying back at the start of the year that it could take a couple of months from tenders being signed off, for the contractors to organise things, to the level of getting diggers, portacabins and such, onsite.
As things stand, i suspect a lot of organisational/planning and low level work is going on by the contractors.
Once things kick off though, I expect there to be something like a proper ceremony, with Mr Big and a shovel, starting stadium construction by digging out a ceremonial piece of earth.
Last edited by The Chair Maker; 19th August 2010 at 22:03.
There was a huge delivery of timber being made at about 4:30pm. That's about all I know!
WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF POOR BEN FLOWER?!
Delivering the sticks, got to get our priorities right
Pre-Match drinks?
try the George Hotel , George St
St Helens , A real Saints pub
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