Stadium Expansion - Bushey Hall

The same reason Arsenal and Spurs are a bit **** (compared to their fans expectations) - because all the money has gone into off the field development and the team has been neglected. They're trying to grow our "brand" but have forgotten that a football club's brand is reliant on its team.

 

Sales to make way for our brand new stadium in Bushey. Now it all makes sense.

 

We do we move in?

 

Tuesday 30th February.

 

I think that’s a Wednesday

 

PR smoke and mirrors

 

Will be easier to get a 10,000 capacity stadium approved.

 

Dead cat on loan from Udinese.

 

A bigger stadium designed for social distancing...

Reminds me of the old joke about shouting to the person next to you at half time.

 

I’m pretty sure that cat is called Gobolino.

 

That suggests an element of entertainment, which I’d be up for at this stage. Make Deeney chief Lion tamer and hope they turn on him.

 

Odds are Deeney would eat the lions first.....

 

The volume they play the ads at half time you have to shout even in the old days, (2019).

 

Keep them there, they will have more movement than some of our existing strikers.

 

I mean, this whole new stadium thing is never going to happen, but what a petty move.

NIMBYs unite!

 

Hopefully they'll end up with a quarry or a landfill site.

 

I want them to design the stadium around the trees now and see the reaction

 

Yes, tarmac to within 2 feet of each trunk.

 

The football version of St Lawrence's.

 

Gino would probably re-name the club Watford Forest F.C. for marketing reasons

 

It’s silly, bearing in mind that Tree Preservation Orders are likely to have little impact on such a large redevelopment proposal. After all the main issue for the site will be to provide road access from the M1 link road. That alone will be a major planning hurdle to overcome. Herts County Council want to build a park and ride car park near to the M1 for Watford town centre/business park visitors, replacing private car trips with bus trips. That will involve the loss of a huge number of trees and acres concreted over. TPOs are line of the easiest issues to mitigate to get planning permission. Look at HS2

 

The one that used to be at St Albans:
https://www.stalbanscityfc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/st._albans_tree.jpg

 

They could make the new goal posts out of the trees.
That way they stay planted in the same place , just painted white and in rectangular shape.

 

Hopefully a massive, cookie cutter estate with hundreds of flats.


**** you Bushey!

 

TPO doesn't necessarily scupper the deal. It just means they can't be bulldozed or trimmed without permission.

Promising to plant replacements creating communal space etc will mean development plans can sometimes go ahead.

 

Would certainly be helpful for the future in the event of a planning application if it was in the local plan.