Topic: Enabling work starts on new LFC stadium

[satmann]

Liverpool City Council granted full planning permission on June 19 to Liverpool Football Club to build a 60,000 seater stadium and outline planning permission for a mixed use development on the existing Anfield stadium site. 
The stadium will incorporate a club shop, conference and banqueting facilities, parking for almost 1,000 vehicles and a Community Partnership centre. Its design is ultimately capable of accommodating up to 73,000 people subject to further planning permission.
 
LFC has instructed Laing O'Rourke to commence enabling works under a licence issued by the Liverpool City Council. Works started on June 23.


 


Co-chairman George Gillett said: "This is a significant milestone for the club and I am delighted that the design received full planning consent and that we are now on site.
 
"We have been working very hard over the last six months to move the details of the design along but this is the first tangible evidence for fans that a New LFC Stadium will be built.
 
"The stadium design is unique and will be recognised across the world as the Liverpool FC Stadium. It incorporates a Kop stand that will hold 18,000 fans and we hope that the stadium will be as noisy and atmospheric on a matchday as Anfield."


 


Co-chairman Tom Hicks added: "We recognise the importance of a new LFC Stadium as part of the wider regeneration of the local area.
 
"We have watched the council transform Stanley Park over the last six months and the ongoing refurbishment of houses in the Anfield/ Breckfield area. I am pleased that now the club has received full planning permission it can join the regeneration process with the commencement of enabling works."
 
The stadium is on programme to open for the beginning of the 2011-12 season. 


http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N160313080624-1211.htm

[dudleyred]

at last!

[Shanklygates]

23rd was yesterday. So tomorrow, when I walk through the park n my way to work, I should be able to see some evidence of this.....

Possibly 

[anon-y-mouse]

Very very bad news.

[red_Mark1980]

Until I see the first game in the new stadium I wont believe it.

In fact even when we play our first game there I'll still think its just a big lie

[redpride9]

not sure how to take this news..

[red_Mark1980]

With a fucking huge amount of salt

[HarryLabrador]

Very very bad news.

Hold fire. 

This is not the first time H&G have put on a stage performance. Let's see some real foundation being laid. Unless the financial experts and banking fraternities have got it so monumentally wrong, I can't see where the money is coming from. As they say....

[Jonny5]

not sure how to take this news..

im with you on this one, no doubt we need it but would sooner they where not involved

[the jesus]

What about the birdies?...won't somebody think of the birdies...


Clearly that was a crock of shit then.

[Shanklygates]

No sign of anything in the park this morning.

[Sir Harvest Fields]

What about the birdies?...won't somebody think of the birdies...


Clearly that was a crock of shit then.

yea wernt they sposed to start in september cos of the nesting season or some such crap?

[xboxlouker]

At last It's started.

[reddwarf12003]

Just showed pics on spn, Theirs  two men and a digger laying an access road apparently.

[stueya]

More evidence that the club is about to be sold- if contracts are signed with LOR and the stadium is underway it must surely increase the market value of the club- as backward as it sounds.

[ttnbd]

What about the birdies?...won't somebody think of the birdies...


Clearly that was a crock of shit then.

you do realise that not everywhere in the park has trees and birds you know.  And legally the club could start nothing until full planning permission was obtained which was 6 days ago.

But no, just continue your moaning as it's the only thing that will actually keep you happy.

[Sir Harvest Fields]

you do realise that not everywhere in the park has trees and birds you know.  And legally the club could start nothing until full planning permission was obtained which was 6 days ago.

But no, just continue your moaning as it's the only thing that will actually keep you happy.

but the area is still the habitat of said birds. they said work couldnt begin until sept cos of the birds. they didnt say we can start here and not disturb the fucking flappy feathered bags of pus.

[ttnbd]

but the area is still the habitat of said birds. they said work couldnt begin until sept cos of the birds. they didnt say we can start here and not disturb the fucking flappy feathered bags of pus.

No, the nests cannot be moved until the season is over.  It doesn't stop them doing prep work like access points etc.  Have a look in the planning documents and on the RSPB site for details on what can and can't be done when building in an area inhabited by birds.

[anon-y-mouse]

Why are people talking about this as though it's a good thing?

[cowtownred]

Why are people talking about this as though it's a good thing?

What's a good thing?

What's happening?

[nidgemo]

What's a good thing?

What's happening?

They're building a stadium, apparently.

[kingjari]

No their not.

Their doin a few nice paths for the lorries, putting in a shitter and offices for the navvy's.

No stadium building yet.

apparently

[Jonny5]

No their not.

Their doin a few nice paths for the lorries, putting in a shitter and offices for the navvy's.

No stadium building yet.

apparently

so there doing all the things you need to do so you can actually start building a stadium

[reddwarf12003]

Anyone got any photographic updates of the area.
video proof would be better.

[ATEAMOFCARRAGHERS]

the have dug up the old kerb stones down utting ave and reset them higher, and there resurfacing the road, fuck all going on as regards to the actual stadium, no hoardings up no heavy machinery or bugger all!

[Rigobert]

the have dug up the old kerb stones down utting ave and reset them higher, and there resurfacing the road, fuck all going on as regards to the actual stadium, no hoardings up no heavy machinery or bugger all!

You haven't been there for a while have you.  There are hoardings and there is heavy machinary.  Go and have a look.   

[HarryLabrador]

Anyone got any photographic updates of the area.
video proof would be better.

You can "Take a virtual tour of the new VIRTUAL stadium". Just click below. 
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2008/06/26/60005/laing-orourke-starts-work-on-liverpools-350m-stadium-video.html

[ttnbd]

You haven't been there for a while have you.  There are hoardings and there is heavy machinary.  Go and have a look.   

Now now, let them pretend that nothing is going on.  It's much more peaceful when they believe that.

[redprodigal]

You can "Take a virtual tour of the new VIRTUAL stadium". Just click below. 
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2008/06/26/60005/laing-orourke-starts-work-on-liverpools-350m-stadium-video.html

   Btw that's the original stadium, before the downgrade, not the present one and I've only just noticed the latest picture on the official site of the Kop with the crowd in. Looks impressive but I still don't like the platform (disabled or otherwise) going halfway across. It's an eyesore and spoils the single tier we were promised. Before the politically correct get involved again there are 3 other stands in the stadium where the disabled fans could have a great position. A unique Kop, steep incline, one tier, no platforms please.

This is the link      http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/

[lurganboy]

Sure they're not just digging some new flower beds?

[Gedo]

The Contractors on site are Ayrefield, who have a 17 week Contract to start the enabling work,the Area where the old houses where behind the Anfield Road End needs to be level,also Hoardings are to be erected from the old John Houldings house(adjacent to Skerries Road) to Mill Lane (pathway in Stanley Park) and continue down Mill Lane for approx 50 yards,until the Main Contractors are on site,whenever that maybe!!!!

[jonnygeeart]

  Btw that's the original stadium, before the downgrade, not the present one and I've only just noticed the latest picture on the official site of the Kop with the crowd in. Looks impressive but I still don't like the platform (disabled or otherwise) going halfway across. It's an eyesore and spoils the single tier we were promised. Before the politically correct get involved again there are 3 other stands in the stadium where the disabled fans could have a great position. A unique Kop, steep incline, one tier, no platforms please.

This is the link      http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/

i think they will be corporate boxes to rake the money in,putting in disabled access there doesnt fit hicks profile he'll be hopin that all protest has died by the time its announced

[redprodigal]

i think they will be corporate boxes to rake the money in,putting in disabled access there doesnt fit hicks profile he'll be hopin that all protest has died by the time its announced

Don't think so. It's been said by posters on here in the know that it's a disabled platform. Not even those idiots would try to get away with corporate in the Kop, would they? Anyway, whatever it is it's an eyesore, get rid, as I said, there's plenty of other areas in the ground for the disabled platforms.

[ttnbd]

i think they will be corporate boxes to rake the money in,putting in disabled access there doesnt fit hicks profile he'll be hopin that all protest has died by the time its announced

That bit is not executive boxes, FACT.

[Jonny5]

can anyone answer me this question, does each stand have to have disabled access, or does the stadium as a whole have to have so many places with the club deciding where those places will be.

[redprodigal]

can anyone answer me this question, does each stand have to have disabled access, or does the stadium as a whole have to have so many places with the club deciding where those places will be.

Not every stand must have disabled access, how many stadiums do you see with access in every stand. The club can decide.

[ttnbd]

Not every stand must have disabled access, how many stadiums do you see with access in every stand. The club can decide.

Most stadia are not new ones though.  If there is a legal requirement then it will only apply to new stadia and newly built stands.

[redprodigal]

Most stadia are not new ones though.  If there is a legal requirement then it will only apply to new stadia and newly built stands.

You're right, and I'm not 100% sure but I'll do a 4pool and wager you 1p that not every stand has to have disabled access even on the new grounds   

[jonnygeeart]

corporate boxes in the KOP would be the best sellers and facts that haven't happened yet can always be changed because they aint facts and as discussed previously they dont give a shit what we think!!!
 i can see it now that  for safety reasons we have been advised to move the disabled area to another part of the ground and the best use of the area with built in lifts will be top corporate boxes

[Football CRAZY]

corporate boxes in the KOP would be the best sellers and facts that haven't happened yet can always be changed because they aint facts and as discussed previously they dont give a shit what we think!!!
 i can see it now that  for safety reasons we have been advised to move the disabled area to another part of the ground and the best use of the area with built in lifts will be top corporate boxes

Thing is the Kop is a fairly intimidating place to be in unless you're used to it and know how to act, and if you don't look a certain way. If they did change it and put Boxes in there the people sitting in them would be in for alot of stick imo. I wager it wouldn't be a comfortable experience to be sitting there in a suit with champagne & buffets. The regulars just wouldn't take to it. Within a season or two and a few horror stories I bet those boxes wouldn't be as popular as some people think.