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New Everton Stadium

Just a question. If Meis is indeed designing our new togger ground, what sort of money will he be asking? Just curious.
My missus' brother in law is an architect and i could ask him but I dislike him intensely. Cheers.
 
Foot Long Hot Dog said:
I doubt we're anywhere near submitting a formal planning application, as for a development of that scale I'd imagine the process is extremely detailed.
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Just as a point of reference, the new 34 storey building going up at Princes Dock has just received planing permission. There was nearly 3 years of work put into that prior to PP being granted.
 
toffee66 said:
The highest profile challenge to the Docks, if we have secured the site, will be UNESCO but both the council & national government have already made it clear that they will choose jobs/investment over UNESCO status if push comes to shove.

The most common practical objections to large-scale new development typically centre around noise, public order, pollution/rubbish, crowding/transport. They can all be addressed and frankly need to be anyway, irrespective of objections, to make the development successful.

The process would take time but there is a near zero chance that any council or national government will turn down a likely £1bn (taking into account ancillary developments around the stadium) investment into one of the poorest areas in the country. No doubt Reds will moan and try to be awkward but the £ at stake will ultimately drown out the noise.
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UNESCO status will not be an issue. It will go.
 

Toffeelover said:
There has to be some thing in the offing ESK, no smoke etc. But I do hope that the board are homing in the waterfront.

back a few years BK should have tapped up his friend former boss of BHS for the 50 mill needed for KD.
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Could have had the funding off Paul Gregg for the KD in the form of a reverse mortgage, but it meant Bill wouldn't have been the majority shareholder, something he wasn't willing to give up.
 
Having checked with my mr soy sauce we have purchased the land and a note of registration change was placed in late August as @The Esk stated it can take weeks just for notes to be amended and serving a note to registry wont complete documentation for nearer 3-4 months on purchase of this size of land ......

Straight from sources mouth from within land registry that pretty much looks at we're new ground will be from birkenhead side
 
GwladysBlue said:
We did pursue a river side home under the previous regime - they failed. (Btw, they're still here).
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Being pedantic that was not the previous regime, it was the one before that with Gregg not Earl. Once Earl came on board, advised by Green and Leahy, every new stadium project was attached to a retail enabler.

For what it's worth any director complicit in the KD failing should have never been allowed to step foot inside Goodison ever again, let alone clapped on the big screens (n)
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Could have had the funding off Paul Gregg for the KD in the form of a reverse mortgage, but it meant Bill wouldn't have been the majority shareholder, something he wasn't willing to give up.
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And this is the man now, all of a sudden, is heroically staying on just long enough to guide naive young Farhad through a choppy first six months.
 

The Esk said:
I stand by what I said back in August, a deal was completed for the purchase of Bramley Dock and surrounding lands (thought to be Nelson Dock plus part of Collingwood). That deal is obviously subject to planning consent.

'Our' interest in this land (especially if there's new land boundaries) would still be registered with and appear on the LR site as it protects our purchase as and when planning consent is given.
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This would be absolutely standard practice in any land deal that would require future planning consent, can't really understand how anyone could think otherwise.
 
I think it is likely that from the very first conversation between Moshiri and BK the core issue was the new stadium.
Moshiri , as an investor in the premiership already , will probably have had a reasonable knowledge of Everton FC and it also does appear that David Dein also seems to have played a role and he also knows both Everton and Bill Kenwright very well.

We hear that the remaining tranche of shares will not pass to Moshiri until certain targets have been met regarding the new stadium. It is likely then that the first part of the deal was not signed over until the existing board were in some way convinced of the plans that Moshiri had for the club. Signing over in excess of 49% of the shareholding to an investor who could renege on all his promises would make no sense. I think this deal carries a number of caveats that we probably will never hear of ...as long as promises are fulfilled.

Moshiri has already been officially involved with the club already for over six months and probably involved in negotiations for over a year before that. It is likely that in that time a lot of work has been carried out in the background about a new stadium and this would be in the strictest confidence as you would expect. we hear snippets and try to piece together a story line from those snippets, but really , it is guesswork.

However, Moshiri has had an impact at the club in other ways already, and although they are not so high profile they underline how different things are at the club.
Without Moshiri , I don't think we could have afforded to sack the previous manager.
I don't think we could have afforded or been able to tempt Ronald Koeman to Everton or possibly Steve Walsh either.
 

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