Pitch/ground

[NorthwoodValiant]

4 minutes ago, TJHValiant said:

Crazy to think of new stands when there is still an unfinished 20 year old Lorne Street with no completion plans confirmed. 
 

Amusingly looking back to only three years ago you can find posters saying Vale park is far too big and we need a smaller ground. These days arguably we need more available seats! 

Personally think the plan is to finish the Lorne street, put home fans in the Hamil and then that will give us a home capacity of about 9,000 for when the railway gets condemned

[Fosse69]

Refurbishing normally always costs more than rebuilding, and as we are Port Vale I imagine cost would be a factor

No doubt Carol will come up with the 2 sets of costs when the time is ripe.

[Brian Johnson]

13 minutes ago, TJHValiant said:

Crazy to think of new stands when there is still an unfinished 20 year old Lorne Street with no completion plans confirmed. 
 

Amusingly looking back to only three years ago you can find posters saying Vale park is far too big and we need a smaller ground. These days arguably we need more available seats! 

Why do we need more available seats?

[NorthwoodValiant]

1 minute ago, Brian Johnson said:

Why do we need more available seats?

Because thousands are taken up by kids who never attend 😂

[Rampant Zebra]

I think we are determined to try and spend money on anything other than the playing squad because they don't deserve to get paid so much for kicking a bag of wind about and should get proper jobs. 🙂

[NorthwoodValiant]

3 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I think we are determined to try and spend money on anything other than the playing squad because they don't deserve to get paid so much for kicking a bag of wind about and should get proper jobs. 🙂

It's called log term planning RZ

[Rampant Zebra]

18 minutes ago, NorthwoodValiant said:

It's called log term planning RZ

Exponential increase in costs?

[NorthwoodValiant]

Just now, Rampant Zebra said:

Exponential increase in costs?

I imagine building new facilties would incur a one off large cost and then would reduce future costs, as new assets are more efficient than old assets

[Brian Johnson]

I have mentioned this before but Vale Park is a rope hanging around any Port Vale owners neck.

Its in need of a serious  update of stands, facilities and pitch.

It must cost an absolute fortune to run.

I would be looking to have a new purpose built stadium away from Burslem.

The council are always banging the drum on how they want to build a arena to bring bigger music concerts to the area etc 

Why not work with the council in finding area of the city for a new stadium that could integrate a arena

[NorthwoodValiant]

17 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:

I have mentioned this before but Vale Park is a rope hanging around any Port Vale owners neck.

Its in need of a serious  update of stands, facilities and pitch.

It must cost an absolute fortune to run.

I would be looking to have a new purpose built stadium away from Burslem.

The council are always banging the drum on how they want to build a arena to bring bigger music concerts to the area etc 

Why not work with the council in finding area of the city for a new stadium that could integrate a arena

I would support a new stadium but i would have to be within walking distance of Burslem or Tunstall, out of town stadiums have no soul and completey alter the matchday experience for the worse

[Fosse69]

I would support a new stadium but i would have to be within walking distance of Burslem or Tunstall, out of town stadiums have no soul and completey alter the matchday experience for the worse

Is there any space left on Festival Park?

[Jacko51]

Perhaps we could tap into the EU Regional Development Fund?

[Brian Johnson]

11 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:

41 minutes ago, NorthwoodValiant said:

I would support a new stadium but i would have to be within walking distance of Burslem or Tunstall, out of town stadiums have no soul and completey alter the matchday experience for the worse

Is there any space left on Festival Park?

Where that new road at Wolstanton to Festival Parks been put in, between that and all the way up to Longport, I'm sure there is loads of development opportunity

[NorthwoodValiant]

31 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:

Where that new road at Wolstanton to Festival Parks been put in, between that and all the way up to Longport, I'm sure there is loads of development opportunity

I'll be honest I think the chance to be able to go there has been and gone, there doesn't appear to be much space remaining, also being in the middle of a load of warehouses is exactly the out of town nightmare that I'm talking about 😂

Edit: By 'not much space remaining' I mean, 'Enough space to fit a football stadium', obviously there is still some space there

[Fosse69]

Where that new road at Wolstanton to Festival Parks been put in, between that and all the way up to Longport, I'm sure there is loads of development opportunity

But is it a community centre like Burslem?