Guinness Premiership stadium expansion plans?

[CharlieP]

Well, according to that Wikipedia page you cited, Cheshire Sports own both the Sharks and Edgeley Park.

[Salif]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

Newcastle Falcons - 10,200 - Have recently developed ground - now all seater and covered. No plans for further development.

Kingston Park is not all seated and certainly not all covered.

West Stand



East Stand



John Smith's Stand



North Stand

[CharlieP]

I didn't say that by the way, it was a quote from the Bath prospectus.

Anyway, I just remembered that on The Rugby Club last Thursday it was mentioned that Gloucester will be playing their last home game against Bristol at Ashton Gate. Looking at their website, they started work on moving the sewer last week, and will start work on the grandstand after their penultimate home game, against Newcastle on 24 March.

I was critical of them in another thread when I heard that they would be starting work mid-season, but this sounds like ideal timing.

[CorliCorso]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

Well, according to that Wikipedia page you cited, Cheshire Sports own both the Sharks and Edgeley Park.

The people behind Sale took Stockport County over in 2003, and transferred ownership of the ground to a new company called Cheshire Sport. Heywood Road apparently was too small and there wasn't much room for development, so they looked around for a larger stadium, our previous chairman Brendan Elwood was willing to sell, so he did.

SCFC were doing poorly on the pitch at the time and things didn't improve, so after two seasons they gave ownership of County to the Stockport County Supporters' Trust, but retained the ground. Apparently Brian Kennedy lost £4m on County - which is pretty bloody cheap for a 10,000 stadium in a top location, if you ask me.

There's some room for development of Edgeley Park, but it depends on a plot of land next to the ground at Booth Street which was formerly a council depot. SCFC's proposal includes community facilities, affordable housing etc. Sale's proposal is simply to use the area as a car park, despite the fact there's a big car park behind the Cheadle End (they stick a big marquee for food & beer on it on matchdays, which unfortunately takes a lot of business away from local pubs & food outlets). Obviously this isn't very appealing for the local council, so they also propose to include a not-at-all-needed Park & Ride scheme to the town centre... which won't please local businesses, either.

The main point is, SCFC have an option to buy back Edgeley Park, but the price goes up if there's any developments. For Sale to meet future Guinness Premiership requirements, they'll need the land to build a new stand. County need the land to develop facilities with the council, and to be able to afford to buy our home back.

[CharlieP]

Gloucester Rugby have a webcam showing progress of the new grandstand - the old one's already gone:



http://www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk/304_3136.php

[Isaac Newell]

Here's Montpellier Rugby Club's new stadium.

[Minnetonka]

Prospectus for the Gloucester regeneration mentions the proposed new 'railway triangle' stadium.

http://www.gloucesterurc.co.uk/downl...Prospectus.pdf

Just down the road from my former club the old boys.

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by Minnetonka

Prospectus for the Gloucester regeneration mentions the proposed new 'railway triangle' stadium.

http://www.gloucesterurc.co.uk/downl...Prospectus.pdf

Just down the road from my former club the old boys.

That's very wishful thinking, given how committed Glaws are to staying at Kingsholm - it was bad enough as far as the fans were concerned that the Shed is to be changed...

[Isaac Newell]

Toulouse have a nice stadium.

[stourbridgebaggie]

do football play there as well isaac?

[Dave_PAFC]

Originally Posted by stourbridgebaggie

do football play there as well isaac?

Nope. Toulouse FC play at Stade Municipal which holds nearly twice as many as the one above.

[Isaac Newell]

Originally Posted by stourbridgebaggie

do football play there as well isaac?

No but they pulled in 34,000 at the football stadium against Clermont this weekend

[Isaac Newell]

Clermont don't have a bad ground themselves.

[CharlieP]

Oi, back on topic please!

Watching the rugby on Sky Sports just now, they announced that Gloucester will be playing their semi-final against Saracens at Kingsholm next weekend, which seems a bit strange now they've knocked the grandstand down. Looking at Bristol City's website, they have a home game at Ashton Gate on Saturday, but surely Glaws could have played there the next day?

[Isaac Newell]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

Oi, back on topic please!

I'm expanding the topic seeing as not much is happening in the Premiership.

I've seen a few Saracens home games this season and have seen one Harlequins RL game so far but plan to watch some more plus a London Skolars game.

It would be nice if the Wasps, London Irish and Saracens had their own grounds, or all shared a purpose built ground.

[Ciudad Bristol]

Published 01 May 2007 at 11:24

Stadium expansion under way for top Rugby club


Construction was underway yesterday on a 7,000-seat stand at the home of Gloucester RFC, league leaders of Ruby Union’s Guinness Premiership.

The new £6.2M south stand at the club's Kingsholm stadium will increase capacity from 13,000 to 17,000. Work has begun following the recent demolition of the 75-year-old former stand.

Ground engineering specialist Pennine has moved on site and is using a rig to insert 600 top feed vibro displacement stone columns, to depths of up to 4.5m in ground comprising fill materials and silty clays that become firmer with depth.

This will increase the strength and load bearing capacity of the varied ground conditions.

“The project will take a week to complete, after which we hand over to main contractor Slick Developments,” said Pennine Gloucester manager Graham Ellery.

“Next time I take my seat to watch the team play, I’ll feel even more part of the match.”

Construction is due to finish by the end of October. Main contractor is Slick Developments, consulting engineer is Farebrother and Partners.

[LeedsLad]

Leeds Tykes are likely to expand Headingley stadium, most likely through redevelopment of the South Stand terrace (already largest all standing terrace in the UK?). They intend to use grant funding from the RFU. This will add to the new Eastern Carnegie stand built last year. The club have stated it will remain a covered terrace, as this is the fans favourite stand...

[ccfc-4-life]

The Butts Park Arena, the home of Coventry RFC, Coventry Bears RLFC and Coventry Jets AFC. The ground currently holds 10,000 people (4,000 seated) there is a second phase planned for the recently built venue, which is yet to be announced.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=450963

[ccfc-4-life]

i heard that the Leicester Tigers plan to expand their stadium, any news on this?

[spud]

Originally Posted by LeedsLad

Leeds Tykes are likely to expand Headingley stadium, most likely through redevelopment of the South Stand terrace (already largest all standing terrace in the UK?). They intend to use grant funding from the RFU. This will add to the new Eastern Carnegie stand built last year. The club have stated it will remain a covered terrace, as this is the fans favourite stand...

leeds tykes are'nt going to expand anything....headingley is'nt their stadium..all expansion is going to be done on the back of the leeds rhinos RLFC,who fill the ground unlike the tykes who struggle to fill one of the stands..