| Salford looking for investment...... on 13:18 - Mar 11 by 49thseason |
The Turners site is owned by ESG trading , a company that specialises in , amongst other things remediating contaminated sites... or did.. Their accounts are currently overdue... and it looks as though their website is down.
However, last time I checked, probably over 12 months ago, their website reckoned they could remediate an asbestos contaminated area for around £200k per acre.
Even if we assumed that it might now be £300k per acre, 5 acres would only cost £1.5m to remediate and on 5 acres you would easily build a new stadium with a huge car park and have a couple of 4g pitches as well, indeed you could have 10 acres remediated for less than the perceived value of the COA....and have the training facility next to the club too.
If ever there were a project for levelling up money.... its hard to think of a better one.... would RMBC support such a venture?, Who knows but the benefits would be huge, no more noise and aggravation for residents, the solution to a festering polluted land problem, new facilities for the club, reasonably distant from houses with the opportunity for concerts in a specially designed stadium, useable by Hornets too?
What's not to like? |
I think if you're going to develop a site like TBA then you have to go the whole hog, it’d be pointless developing half the site while leaving the rest, who would want to play sport right next to an abandoned contaminated asbestos factory? Wholly agree about cleaning it up though, it’s an eyesore & an embarrassment to the town.
I don’t think a stadium there is viable as access is very limited as it is but as a sports / fitness/ rehabilitation centre why not? You could easily fit 5-6 pitches on the site, throw in an athletics track & fitness suite with rehab centre / hydrotherapy pool (could be used in conjunction with the NHS)? & you might have a contender for levelling up cash. The more users the better, schools, dale & Hornets training, coaching sessions for kids in the holidays, Rochdale harriers, NHS physio & rehab sessions etc…
More end users means more potential funding, something a new MP could get his teeth into…?? |  |
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