by Timb » Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:50 pm
For anyone interested there is now a multitude of new information on the Stroud District Council Web Site relating to the revised proposals for the new stadium.
To review go on to the SDC web site and planning application search, and the reference is S.16/0043/OUT, Football Stadium, Eastington Parish.
The stadium is now on the North side of the A417, with car parking and some pitches, and a second access exit out on to Grove Lane on the North side. There is no Eco Park anymore in the application. There is no work on the South side of the road.
Letters of consultation went out last week from SDC, and responses are likely to return towards the end of January, and then any issues that arise will need to be dealt with from there. It would be highly unlikley given the scale of the development that there will be no issues that arise that need to be dealt with, probably this spring.
So hopefully with a fair wind the application might go to the committee some time in summer 2018 at the earliest.
My take on a program to get to the stadium opening would be as follows :-
Once the outline permission is granted for the stadium junction access, the real detailed work starts, and I assume that all the buttons will be pressed to commence detailed design on the stadium itself, the training pitches and the car parking, and that a detailed planning application for the stadium will then be submitted perhaps by the end of 2018 or early 2019 ?
Then that will go through the planning process probably during 2019 and hopefully detailed planning approval would be granted by the end of that year.
Then construction tender documents will be prepared, and so on, and construction quotes sought from contractors, so that a contract might get placed towards the end of 2019 or early 2020 to build the stadium and complete the associated highway works. The cost of the undertaking will also then be identified.
Given the scope of the work a 2 year build program might be appropriate so that we might target a first game at the new ground in July 2021 (18 months) or July 2022 (30 months).
In the meantime we need to make sure that The New Lawn is kept up to scratch as we wait for the move.