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Well done
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Originally Posted by CuanaD
Planning has been granted already subject to the land being rezoned.
The council today voted to rezone the land.
Now it's only for the county chairman (i think thats the title) to sign it off.
Could be ready to go for next season.
It's as already said delivered in sections like mecano, just like the point village is being assembled.
It's built off site and assembled here.
All that is needed now is to attract 10,000 season ticket holders:D
Congratulations to all in the Drogs
:eek: never underestimate... (I'm scarred for life for those hurdles)Quote:
the only hurdles will be finance & problems with the build/builders
Great news anyway...
United Park is probley my favourite ground,gona miss the terracing
Ahh, dont like the sound of that. I dont think i could be dealing with another long drawn out fiasco ala Rovers. Hopefully this goes smoothly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
If there is another GAA Thomas Davis type effort then the GAA would look very poor. But its only residents i'd imagine so fingers crossed it all goes swimmingly.
County Manager has said that he will sign it off once todays vote was passed so Planning is a given.
Finance , partly from the sale of United Park , is in place.
Developer is ready to roll.
Only hiccup now could be an appeal to An Bord Planeala , that could push it back 6 months so would expect work to commence next Spring at the latest , hopefully sooner.
GAA county ground is in Navan , recently redeveloped and would hold considerably more that the new Drogs stadium. Nearest local clubs in the area would be St Colmcilles in Pilltown/Laytown and Duleek - cant see a problem there.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Possible objectors would be developers of a rival complex at Colpe , close to the new site , they objected/made observations at planning but their complex is due for completion in November 2008 so I would think it unlikely that they would get involved again.
Vincent Hoey has already said the ground is for all sports - including GAA, although it will hardly be big enough for senior.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
You do know what club the mods support?????Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
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Originally Posted by A face
there are no residents!
Drogs are getting the stadium built by the developers in return for the developers getting planning for the rest of the site which has now happened.
It's going to be a complete new town with excellent access to M1.
The development at Colpe is flying along and will be completed by this November. Shannon homes are the developers and also have provided free playing pitches to East Meath United. Can't see them objecting, more they were using the inital objection for bartering purposes.
There is a residents meeting this evening for the Colpe development for an update, if I hear any comments re the stadium I will post later.
Congrats to Drogs.
What's the next step, objections aside?
Not sure you are right there, the deal is the new stadium for United Park - that planning and rezoning was passed a couple of months ago. There has been no permission sought for the 5,000 houses, although it is in the county development plans (afaik)Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
Shannon Homes are the rival developer and the main objector (surprise, surprise)
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Originally Posted by Celdrog
you could be right but my understaning is the developers who own the land for the new site were providing the land for the stadum and ancilliarys subject to them getting planning for the rest of site which has happened with the rezoning.
The funds for building are coming from the disposal of United Park which has also been granted planning. I think there are 2 sides to the deal but all has now come together.
Shannon homes own land heading down the Colpe road towards Mornington / Bettystown, I don't believe they own any land up towards the M1.
The're objections should be finished as their shoping centre will be open within a few months.
Its good to see Meath will finally have a team in the eL :D
Na seriously congrats
One question though, is there only one phase or is there 4 phases like phase will be to build the main stand then once that is done the ground will be open and then later down the line they will do the other stands?
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Originally Posted by eamoss
No the stadium will be delivered in sections and clipped together like a mecano set :D see drogs website for pictures of stadium and link on previous page on thsi thread about the building company.
6 months is th etime frame for completion, the infrastructure will take longer
Congrats, looking forward to paying a visit
Would I be correct in suggesting the only possible objectors are another Developer who has previously objected? Were they using it as delaying tactic in the past but now they nearly finished their own development so development around new stadium not a competitor?
100% approval is a fair achievement in Meath. Congrads on the decision but that doesn't mean you'll be spared the Meath United jokes :p
About right there Pete but in this little land of our who knows when it comes to planning, I am fully expecting some form of objection leading to a delay.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
There were other objectors to the orginal planning so they can all appeal etc.
Aside from that here is really hoping it gets past the next month as this would be a great development.
Must be delighted with this now - am I the only one to have spotted it or am I miles behind the times?
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Originally Posted by Irish Times
Its all in the Drogheda section mateQuote:
Originally Posted by bigmac
http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=92951]
Most one club news gets moved. Can't understand why people get worked up about it tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
Merged the 4 recent threads into one.
Because it's stupid to move it out of the main forum into a small section that most people wont see when everybody is interested in it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
the 5,000 houses and the DUFC complex are decoupled. He will build stadium etc. first and if it turns out later (after stadium is finished) that he doesn't get plan permission for houses then that's tough on him - but he'd be more likely to get plan perm for 5K houses if infrastructure in place beforehand. Still a one lane accees road for 5K houses and a 10K seater stadium even if it's yards from a motorway is a bit irish. Anywho
Most money coming from developer as FAI own most of United Park.
It's to be built in one phase - it's how they operate. the roof on each stand can be removed and a further tier inserted should we want to double capacity for example in a future bid to host euro champs etc. not likely but possible. It's the way forward!
You'd need to triple capacity to host a Euro game (minimum requirement is 30000, I think)
What sort of Euro game?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
A full qualifier will obvously go to Lansdowne but under-21 games will be fine
There's always redirects from where it was posted (and not everybody is interested).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
Anyway back to the real point...
European Championships, as per all drogged up's post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celdrog
Ah - no chance of it happening, though technically possible. Hosts must have at least 8 grounds with a minimum 30k capacity. They may choose to use more grounds with a lesser capacity.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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Originally Posted by Celdrog
Hate to say it but you're wrong on this one.
THey can use more stadiums but the minimum capacity is still 30,000.
Talk about jumping the gun! Lets just hope the 10,000 seater staium is built then we can dream of the 30,000 capacity Euro Championship Stadiuj being built!!
So after June 18th if nobody puts in an objection you start the building phase ?
Is that right ?
They get to the "finding the money" phase.
No they have to wait till the 4km link toad is built before they can start building according to the drogheda leader, this is to be approved by the NRA. Expecting this to get the go ahead shortly according to the paper, then the finding the money begins but I'm pretty sure that the funding is in place from the developers of the site.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
A 4km has to be put in place before they can start to build ?
I guess you'll be in United Park for years to come then...
No way that will be finished anytime soon is there ?
Stu, any chance you might answer the previous questions I asked on Shelbourne overspending anytime soon ???
By all accounts, a large chunk of the money is coming from the sale of United Park, which as far as I'm aware (and I may well be wrong) hasn't been agreed yet. It has planning permission alright, but I haven't heard of anyone wanting to buy it. Given that flats in Drogheda are going to become markedly less desirable as property prices fall and people in the likes of Drogheda, Gorey, Port Laoise, etc, move closer to Dublin, that's going to get harder (and the cash will get lower) as time goes by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
Usual question for higgins - what are you on about?!
Earlier in the discussion you claimed that Shels are still drawing down money on the sale of Tolka, he's asking you to produce some evidence of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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Originally Posted by higgins
It would appear that the funding for the road is in place, in fairness to Drogs they seem to heve every angle covered and the stadium will be being built off site while the link road is built.
The link road is essential as I believe it goes right down to the Colpe Shopping centre due to open shortly. It is also essential for the developers to build the commercial aspect of the site, so it's not quite a case of the road being required just for the stadium. Also 4km of road from a greenfield site should be very straightforward, IMO.
Drogs reckon they will be in by 2010 and I'd believe them.
That was four weeks ago on a different thread in a different forum?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
So if I ask it now you'll answer it here ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
You don't seem to have noticed it in the other thread, otherwise I thought you'd have responded by now.
I suppose 4 weeks is not long enough....
He's just clearly wrong, didn't have any evidence and doesn't have the balls to admit it... just let it go higgins!