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Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, December 27, 2004, 16:20:07 Taken from the Brentford Rivals site, a little snippet, from an Article in the Evening Standard, about their plans for redeveloping Griffen Park.
Sounds like the sort of modest proposal, that might be within our compass. Brentford today announced ambitious plans for a £2.5million redevelopment of Griffin Park. Raising the capacity from 11,000 to 14,000, the club want to enlarge the Brook Road stand, put a roof on the Ealing Road terrace and build executive lounges in the New Road stand. The idea is to modernise the 100-yearold ground in a bid to attract new fans and create more opportunites to use the stadium on non-matchdays. The scheme will largely be paid for by a £1.8m grant from the Government backed Football Stadia Improvement Fund, but still requires planning permission. Title: Re: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: reeves4england on Monday, December 27, 2004, 17:11:34 Certain parts sound quite familiar!
Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, December 27, 2004, 17:28:50 I know all may be revealed in a while, but I'm not sure whether we as fans should be anticipating something along these lines, or something all together more ambitious.
Certainly, there would seem to be no reason why something like this, ie roof over Bank, some boxes and more lounges and perhaps a small increase in capacity shouldn't happen. :?: Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: blinkpip on Monday, December 27, 2004, 17:49:36 It would be really cool if we can do the same.
But I don't understand, Do we own the County Ground and who ever owns it, are they gonna give us it on the cheap? I don't seem to know the situation? Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, December 27, 2004, 18:07:31 The CG is Council owned, which has always been a problem, but it does mean that you can avoid asset strippers like the Wrexham fella, and what happened to Brighton.
Having said that the club do own things like the Nationwide Stand, it would be illegal for the Council to sell us the ground at anything other than the going rate for any potential development on the land, so that is unlikely to happen. It does look though that there might be government grants available, of course this is likely to be dependent on Community use for the facilities but STFC are already good at this sort of thing. Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: reeves4england on Monday, December 27, 2004, 18:18:38 Quote from: "blinkpip" It would be really cool if we can do the same. You have lived for this long without knowing the CG is council owned?!But I don't understand, Do we own the County Ground and who ever owns it, are they gonna give us it on the cheap? I don't seem to know the situation? Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: blinkpip on Monday, December 27, 2004, 18:32:02 Quote from: "reeves4england" Quote from: "blinkpip" It would be really cool if we can do the same. You have lived for this long without knowing the CG is council owned?!But I don't understand, Do we own the County Ground and who ever owns it, are they gonna give us it on the cheap? I don't seem to know the situation? I know it was. But didn't know the situation about it all. Title: Football Stadia Improvement Fund. Post by: DMR on Monday, December 27, 2004, 18:41:35 I like Griffin Park- 4 pubs, 4 stands.
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