Brandywell Redevelopment

**pete** · 17/06/2006, 4:35 PM

Its good that some plans in place but hard to take seriously when no idea how will be funded & no guarantee that can get the land. �15m is a massive amount of cash to raise as its not as if any assets to sell off...

**Speranza** · 17/06/2006, 6:28 PM

Northern Ireland Sports council will be one obvious group to seek investment from. Various EU peace and reconciliation groups are always keen to give money to area seen as suffering from politcal strife.

**MariborKev** · 17/06/2006, 6:31 PM

Originally Posted by pete

Its good that some plans in place but hard to take seriously when no idea how will be funded & no guarantee that can get the land. �15m is a massive amount of cash to raise as its not as if any assets to sell off...

Pete, just because it isn't in the public domain does not mean that there are no detailed funding ideas

**Strabane_Harp** · 17/06/2006, 6:33 PM

brilliant news for derry and the league in general

well done derry and good luck with this

**anto eile** · 17/06/2006, 6:45 PM

Originally Posted by Dazzy

Well considering its surrounded by houses its as big as its going to get unless the stadium is moved a 100m down to the other side.

generally speaking. the brandywell is a huge plot of land.youd easily accomodate 10,000 seater stadium there if you made the effort. and for STG�15 id expect that

**MariborKev** · 17/06/2006, 7:41 PM

13.5 arces of a site

However planning issues relating to surrounding housing, would mean that larger stadia would pose greater planning issues.

Furthermore the plans for the Brandywell do not equate to

�15m = New Stadium

The �15m is the costing for the redevlopment of the entire site, which includes the construction of covered third generation pitches(along the lines of the Astro Dome in Dundalk), the retails units, the medical centre, a new third generation outdoor pitch as well as the development of the "stadium"

**daniel** · 19/06/2006, 4:23 PM

Originally Posted by anto eile

generally speaking. the brandywell is a huge plot of land.youd easily accomodate 10,000 seater stadium there if you made the effort. and for STG�15 id expect that

Why build a stadium that hold 9-10000 people if your only going to half full it every other week, if we were pulling crowds of 5000 every week then a stadium that holds 10000 would look absolutley ridiculous!!

**higgins** · 20/06/2006, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Maribor

Pete, just because it isn't in the public domain does not mean that there are no detailed funding ideas

ah come on now Maribor you must know by now if you have not informed Rovers Bohs Cork and UCD posters on here then its not happening

Why dont you groundshare with Finn Harps to keep the FAI happy

**dortie** · 22/06/2006, 9:07 AM

Maribor.......When does work commence on the project ? At the end of the current season ?

**MariborKev** · 22/06/2006, 9:24 AM

The plan is that it would start in Spring 2007
-Demolising the Brandywell Centre, building retail units there is the first step AFAIK

**DmanDmythDledge** · 22/06/2006, 1:56 PM

Will your attendences suffer due to the work going on?

**dcfcsteve** · 22/06/2006, 6:34 PM

Originally Posted by dmandmythdledge

Will your attendences suffer due to the work going on?

I wouldn't expect so - though depends what type of matches we're playing in.

We currently average anywhere around 2,500 a game. I'm assuming the stadium as a whole won't be closed mid-season for the work, so the most imposing stuff would happen in the close season. With our crwods at the level they are, any other work could be done with the fans still accommodated somewhere in the current/new stadium.

However, if we get high profile games (e.g. Europe) we may suffer - but again that all depends on the work timings etc.

So in a nutshell, I wouldn't expect so.