Topic: Anfield Regeneration..

[Steve C]

"HOUSING

The scheme will involve demolishing 1,405 "obsolete/low demand" houses near the stadium.

A further 1,871 homes will be refurbished and 390 new houses will be built. A new village centre will be created at the junction of Walton Breck and Oakfield Road to provide a social and commercial focus to the area.

EDUCATION

An Education Innovation Centre will be built into the stadium, providing 800 student spaces.

A North Liverpool City Academy will be created to replace Breckfield Comprehensive School but Anfield Comprehensive will be left untouched.

The scheme also undertakes to improve and modernise primary and secondary school facilities in the area.

TOURISM

The project aims to bring 200,000 new visitors a year to Anfield, with a wide range of non-match day attractions linked to the football club itself.

A new public open space, Anfield Plaza, on the current stadium site will link

the new stadium with a proposed village centre. Its features will include a Memories of Anfield attraction, Anfield Fountains, memorials and statues and a Kop bar/restaurant.

Visitors will be taken along a "path to glory" through Stanley Park to the stadium, through Gladstone Conservatory and a Pavilion of Legends. There will be a Story of the Reds exhibit along with stadium tours.

TRANSPORT

Transport plans for the new stadium include providing 3,000 park and ride spaces in Gillmoss and Aintree, and 500 off street "park and walk" spaces near the ground.

Ticket holders will get free bus/rail tickets for match day travel and extra Soccerbus routes are planned.

Pedestrian and cycle routes will be improved, and the council will toughen the enforcement of the controlled parking zone around the stadium."

[Jonathan Hall ☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Steve, does it specify what it means by free bus /rail for ticket holders.

Are they planning to open a shuttle service on the railway line between say the city centre for people who arrive of drink in the centre, and a rail linked P & R somewhere.

[Anthony]

What's your source on this? the official site report says that the current site will be incorporated into Stanley Park...

What will happen to the site of the present stadium?

The agreement is that there will be no loss of public open space if we build a new stadium. The boundaries of Stanley Park will be redrawn and that means the present site will become public open space. We don't dictate what happens to that space.

Oh! Just seen the next bit...

Do you have any preferences for what happens to it?

We would hope that there is scope for something which is a legacy to the existing stadium. One possibility is a memorial garden because a number of people have had their ashes scattered on the current pitch.

[Steve C]

The Echo.

[ttnbd]

Steve is that what would happen if Anfield was redeveloped or what is happening if the new stadium goes ahead?

[Steve C]

Er...thats for the new stadium.

Can't get me head around this yet.

[Paul]

Whats the point in giving us free bus/rail tickets if there are no decent bus or train services to use them on  

The nearest station to the ground is Kirkdale to walk, maybe Sandhills. Its still a bloody good walk. We need to look at getting a closer rail link in to make the transport system feasible. I would like someone to come out and deny that the freight line that runs over Walton Hall Avenue (next to the Police Station) can not be linked to the Merseyrail network for match-day services. Those soccerbus things are bloody useless!

Would also be nice if the buses ran from near the ground to virtually everywhere. Buses out towards Ormskirk/Kirkby and the majority of city centre buses only run down County Rd (again a bit of a walk).

When you look at the mancs transport links (and its hard not to if I get the train to uni!) they have their own railway station that is served from Piccadilly regularly on match days. They also have their own tram station and god knows how many buses that go right to their door from the city centre. That is the kind of thing we need.

Having ranted about that, the park & ride schemes are a step foward.

[king_of_the_kop]

if the community turn this down then they are ruining there area.As some people made comments in the echo,Anfield id Anfields Heritage not Stanley park.A memorial garden would only attract more people.

[Jonathan Hall ☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Regarding the transport issues. It's about time ARRIVA put plenty of buses on like they used to in the old MTL days when the 26 / 27 had a few waiting and they could do with having a couple waiting on Breck Road.

And force people who drive to park outside in Park and Rides and bus them in as trying to get a taxi into town is easy but all you do is sit in the traffic which is worse now than it was five years or so ago.

[TheKid.]

Buses out towards Ormskirk/Kirkby and the majority of city centre buses only run down County Rd (again a bit of a walk).

County Rd's a bit of a walk? You lazy bastard  

[Paul]

County Rd's a bit of a walk? You lazy bastard  

Yeah damn right! Plus more time spent walking to the last bus midweek games = less time drinking in the pub after the game.

Its all about priorities Kid