with all the talk of ground share , a new [url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/rugby-league/Rugby-league-chairman-hood-says.4972437.jparticle[/url in YP has popped up , one thing that caught my eye



"Although plans for the village, which will occupy the site of the current rugby stadium as well as adjacent land around the old Northern View sanatorium, remain fluid it seems likely the famous Odsal bowl will be filled in"

I thought that was common knowledge.

Well I too thought it was going to be re developed around the existing stadium!

It's the first time I've seen that picture I think but Hood has said in the past that the plans involved swinging the pitch through 90 degrees. I assumed from that the hole was getting filled in and a new structure was going on top. From the looks of that picture the hole is getting filled in and becoming a car park whilst the stadium is where the hospital was.

what picture?



Edit - ignore me. I is speshal in t'head.

from what i rememeber from the licence application OSV was going to be built around the bowl , with a seated stand placed over the Popular side covering a lower standing tier



the picutre is from the failed OSV proposal. (2002?)



However Hood has said that the the plans are flexable

Correct.



The picture isnt recent and instead the failed tesco driven scheme of 2002.

I think thats about right, lifting and rotating the stadium gives you more "useful" real estate immediately around the pitch and stadium, so you can set the costs of filling in the hole against the savings of it being a subsequently easier build with more potential.



I think we have also reduced our demands capacity wise and seating wise over the course of feasibility to help cut costs.



But its all flexible and could change entirely by the next meeting.

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good to see council is allocating money towards odsal project. First time I've heard a figure mentioned. Would the 15million be total cost including external grants or just the councils contribution?



willing to bet there'll be comments from city fans saying it would be cheaper to buy vp back and make us groundshare - which I suspect was partially the agenda behind teh story about them moving to odsal a couple of weeks back

IIRC the total cost is around the £29 milliom mark.

maybe just maybe this could be something bradford could be proud of

..{if it ever happens}

This seems quite big to me - that the council is announcing 'We're going to tax you more to pay for Odsal' suggests that they are prepared to weather the likely sh.tstorm from City/Cougar fans plus other 'I don't use it, why should I pay for it' types. Why would they bother to do this if they weren't serious, or at least semi-serious?

We pay for your home,

we pay for your hoo-ome,

what a waste of council tax,

we pay for your home.

Did City ever pay for VP? Or was that one of many things written off when they went into admin?

Some of it was written off, the public certainly didn't have to fork out for it.

We'll have paid for it one way or another.

But they aren't going to tax more.



The article states that the £15m is being provided from money gained by the sale of the Airport. There won't be any extra tax burden on the Council tax payers.



At the same time though there won't be any less!



Using the windfall from the Airport to invest in capital schemes such as this and school rebuilding is, in my opinion, the correct thing to do.

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and the rate rise - including the provision for the funding for odsal, has been passed. Things are starting to look positive

Thanks to the BNP.



They should be given a stand at Odsal to thank them.

Banque National de Paris? Don`t they sponsor the French open tennis. No, banks are odious institutions. A pox on all their houses I say.

A very significant announcement this, looking forward to seeing the plans, one thing is for certain, its not quite the scheme it was. This now looks like a totally new build.



Great news.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4188418.NHS____takes_over_bid____for_houses/This[/url affect anything?

I work for "NHS Estates" which incidentally is not the name anymore so I'll see what I can find out.

May not have any direct bearing, therefore?

At the fans forum Peter Hood pulled out some plans of the OSV from his pocket and said that in the next few days we would hear something in the press, it has been over a month now and still nothing, is this because of the Bradford City groundsharing talks?