LIVERPOOL Football Club should not be allowed to build its new £180m stadium on Stanley Park unless the rest of the Anfield Regeneration programme goes ahead, councillors were told yesterday. more
LIVERPOOL Football Club should not be allowed to build its new £180m stadium on Stanley Park unless the rest of the Anfield Regeneration programme goes ahead, councillors were told yesterday. more
It should be allowed to be built on the park full stop. Both club's should be forced out to suitable locations in non-residential areas.Originally Posted by Kev
Both club's are an embrassment to the city. For 10 years EFC have been talking about a move - they haven't even got a site yet. For the past 5 years LFC have been on about one. They even have a site and a design - no stadium. Arsenal come in the last minute and build a beauty.
The council should be firm and say no deal in Anfield or Walton, get out and offer them sites - again. They offered a part of Garston Docks and Speke to both club's.
The club's propogate the idea of an indecisive argumentative city that does nothing, even when they throw public money at them.
CITY politicians are set to lease a slice of historic Stanley Park, paving the way for work to start on a new stadium for Liverpool FC early in 2007. more
By all means attempt to regenerate the area.. but don't use public open space to achieve it ..
I'm all for the intent of doing good for the Anfield community.. but there were brownfield sites available tobuild the ground such as down Prescot rd and the Docks such as Kings dock that were ignored in favour of a public open space..
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Liverpool have received the go-ahead from the city council to build a new 60,000 all-seater stadium.
Council leaders approved a 999-year lease on Friday for a piece of land in the city's Stanley Park, just 300 yards away from their Anfield home.
"It's all systems go. All we need now is the club to confirm the funding," said council leader Warren Bradley.
Liverpool have until the end of September to convince the council it can come up with £180m for the project.
If financing is approved, building work could begin early next year with the first match pencilled in for August 2009.
Bradley added: "If Liverpool have the funding in place, they can start on the site from January."
The overall cost of the first phase of the project will be £215m.
It includes the new stadium which incorporates a centre with facilities for education, sport and community activities, along with a fully restored Stanley Park. source.....
I remember seeing a post regarding the ashes spread at Anfield, and what would be happening to them. Tho. I can't find it now. So I'll post this here...Just to add a few word to the ashes question. I would think that when the management allowed this practice, they entered into a tacit agreement with the families of the people whose ashes were placed on the field, that they undertake to be gardians of the remains. This would indeed be a legal undertaking, whether agreed to or not. So the management would be legaly bound to re-deposit the remains to a safe place, even if identities could not be confirmed.
In this case I feel that if enough pressure was brought to bear, (as in a class action ) That maybe the top 12 ins. of the present field would be transfered to the new field and mixed in there. Just a thought.
Ta luv. As of this evening I believe the Echo will be looking into this matter.
Benitez: Stadium plan vital to LFC
Sep 9 2006
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
LIVERPOOL FC manager Rafael Benitez yesterday told how plans for a new stadium were vital for the club as senior councillors issued a warning that vital funding could be lost in just seven days.
The city council's executive board yesterday agreed to rent out one-third of Stanley Park so the club can build a 60,000-seater ground.
But the club must prove it has the £180m it needs to build the stadium within a week, or lose vital European cash without which the scheme would almost certainly collapse.
Yesterday, Benitez said: "It is very important that we have this new stadium to have more room for our fans. It will help us provide very important extra funds for our future, and it will help us to compete with clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
"We have fantastic support at Liverpool and the Kop is a very special place, but our capacity is just 45,000. It would be even better for everyone if we had 60,000 fans in the ground."
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