Griffin Park

[saffrey]

Okay, let's say all the Feltham stuff is sorted aout, and BFC moves down the A4 to Feltham - so what happens to good ole Griifn Park?

Does Ron (okay Altonwood PLC) develpo the land into housing, with all the associated costs of geotechnical surveys, construction, safety regulations etc. (I should know - I am studying Civil Engineering!

) - or would it be much more worth while to raze the land, and let the area to advertisers to get their messages across to the 65M or so passengers who fly over head each year (is that the right figure, BTW?).

Using the land as an aerial-billboard saves the initial outlay of construction etc., and considering the potential massive growth of Heathrow with Terminal 5, this could proved to be very profitable. Any other suggestions or comments?

 

[Baz Bee]

There is no contest. The land is worth considerably more as a development site.

It is unlikely that the club, or any companies associated with Noades would want to undertake the development works. I would anticipate that the site would be marketed for residential purposes, probably with outline planning consent already in place.

If they did want to share in the potential profit from the development, as well as the land disposal, I would recommend that they enter into a partnership arrangement with a company who is experienced in similar developments.

In any case, the matters you talk of are all very minor in cost terms when compared to the total developers budget necessary to support the whole site development.

 

[IsleofWight_Bee]

Bit of a piss take this but as it was once an orchard what about turning it back into an organic farm. Lets face it there's been plenty of manure on that pitch over the years!!

 

[Bucks Bee]

He'll probably sell it to Kingstonian

 

[Wise old Bee]

Whatever they build on the Griffin Park site I hope it is a major inconvenience to those gits who live in the flats at the Ealing Road end who objected to a roof being put up a few years ago. A sewage farm would do nicely.

 

[Isleworth Bee]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wise old Bee:
Whatever they build on the Griffin Park site I hope it is a major inconvenience to those gits who live in the flats at the Ealing Road end who objected to a roof being put up a few years ago. A sewage farm would do nicely.</font>

Here here. I hope they are all satisfied that they have made a big contribution to driving the club out of its home town.