New Everton Stadium

[RobSpurs]

Looking at West Ham's stadium on tv, please please please nothing like that. The distance between fans and pitch is horrendous!!

Even if your new stadium is part of the city's 2026 Commonwealth Games bid (which the Mayor is still pushing for) it'll surely be a football stadium temporarily retrofitted for athletics, not an athletics stadium retrofitted for football as is the case at the OS. I can't conceive of a situation where you'd ever end up with anything like the OS.

The OS is a great athletics stadium though. Was there in 2012 and will be back this Summer for the World Championships to see Sir Mo Farah's last ever 10k.

 

[The Cowboy]

I'd say it about any builder, rip off merchants !!

Ha, well I was looking at the cracks in my bathroom walks just last night, which was installed by a British builder, so maybe I might have to eat my words!

 

[Brendan Janus]

Ha, well I was looking at the cracks in my bathroom walks just last night, which was installed by a British builder, so maybe I might have to eat my words!

Try Pat Phelan !!

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

I'd say it about any builder, rip off merchants !!

Get back in yer air conditioned office Noddy!

 

[Brendan Janus]

Get back in yer air conditioned office Noddy!

It's broke down mate, a builder fitted it LOL !

 

[Jacko93]

I work near bramley moore dock and theye just been setting off fireworks there. This could be nonsense, could be celebration, could be a group of youths with terrible timekeeping or an out of date calendar

There were far too inland to be anything to do with Bramley Moore. Was nearer to the college.

 

[Tez]

Oh my. Say that about foreign workers and you'd be strung up. But apparently it's perfectly fine to say that about British workers.

Quite perverse how Remain voters perceive British workers as inferior, despite themselves actually being British workers.

It was clearly a joke. Keep your Union Jack knickers out of a twist and your Brexit balderdash elsewhere please.

 

[mikewex]

Oh my. Say that about foreign workers and you'd be strung up. But apparently it's perfectly fine to say that about British workers.

Quite perverse how Remain voters perceive British workers as inferior, despite themselves actually being British workers.

-Serious hat on-

Not sure if it's the same in the U.K., but in Ireland we pretty much lost our vocational education and apprenticeship setups in favour of everyone going to college/uni and doing some sort of generic business or arts course.

A lot of the guys coming in from Poland/Czech etc came through that sort of system, and you can see the difference....

-serious hat off again-

 

[The Cowboy]

-Serious hat on-

Not sure if it's the same in the U.K., but in Ireland we pretty much lost our vocational education and apprenticeship setups in favour of everyone going to college/uni and doing some sort of generic business or arts course.

A lot of the guys coming in from Poland/Czech etc came through that sort of system, and you can see the difference....

-serious hat off again-

Indeed. The drive to push everyone towards uni has been catastrophic. There is nothing wrong with being vocationally orientated, yet there's a stigma that suggests you're a dimwit if you don't go to uni.

 

[jonnyboy316]

Even if your new stadium is part of the city's 2026 Commonwealth Games bid (which the Mayor is still pushing for) it'll surely be a football stadium temporarily retrofitted for athletics, not an athletics stadium retrofitted for football as is the case at the OS. I can't conceive of a situation where you'd ever end up with anything like the OS.

The OS is a great athletics stadium though. Was there in 2012 and will be back this Summer for the World Championships to see Sir Mo Farah's last ever 10k.

The very thought of having to make any design compromises to accommodate a one off 2 week 2nd rate athletics event makes my blood boil. I want know involvement with the games bid

 

[roydo]

The very thought of having to make any design compromises to accommodate a one off 2 week 2nd rate athletics event makes my blood boil. I want know involvement with the games bid

Dont worry mate. It will be a football ground. Nothing else.

 

[Toffeeslam]

The very thought of having to make any design compromises to accommodate a one off 2 week 2nd rate athletics event makes my blood boil. I want know involvement with the games bid

Hypothetically LCC could make it a condition for planning application approval so might not have a choice.

Not saying that's what's happening but its certainly feasible

 

[roydo]

Hypothetically LCC could make it a condition for planning application approval so might not have a choice.

Not saying that's what's happening but its certainly feasible

Well if they did, and I very much doubt they would/could, they would have to pay for it. Unless they are part financing it, which I very much doubt.

Be like getting planning permission for a new house and the council saying how you decorate the place.

 

[Doolstar70]

Hypothetically LCC could make it a condition for planning application approval so might not have a choice.

Not saying that's what's happening but its certainly feasible

They couldn't make it a condition. Planners can't force a private company to accept an athletics event. However that is not to say that there would not be a lot of other negotiating points with the council where it may end up being advantageous to accept the event.
For example, the council may be able to get some external funding for the stadium, or for improvements to transport and infrastructure links if it is part of the commonwealth games.

 

[Magus]

Hypothetically LCC could make it a condition for planning application approval so might not have a choice.

Not saying that's what's happening but its certainly feasible

Can't see any planning relevance or justification for such a condition.