manorpark

Starts at 2.15.

Damn !! I was hoping that Amanda might unexpectedly walk in, with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, and announce that Steve Bruce has left the building!

The Media have apparently been notified that the pre-match press conference will take place tomorrow at 1.30. Does anyone know if they were told that Steve Bruce will hold the pre-match press conference at 1.30 tomorrow ?

He is being forced to resign personally in public. He has explained (has had it explained to him) that he really doesn't want the £8m. (in my dreams . . . )

Posted them a few posts back - https://newcastle-online.org/topic/4883-st-james-park-caulkin-sd-advertising-to-remain-for-the-short-term/?do=findComment&comment=6910261

Your second image is very similar to the 1997 proposals, except they had the indoor arena (half the size of SJP) where SJP used to be . . .

A two-word definition of 'lunatic' = Logical Realist.

This (at the below link) is Newcastle's real population, the figure that is used by businesses to decide whether we are "big enough" to open a business, or shop here. This figure is what will determine the optimum size for our expanded Football Stadium . . . https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Newcastle-upon-Tyne-population.html Artificial and meaningless "Local Authority Boundaries" splitting the Newcastle Metropolitan Area into wierd small areas (purely for provision of local authority services such as 'bin collections' etc) are totally irrelevant in this, it is the real (actual) population figures that matter in decision-making.

Urban Sprawl tends to be used to describe expansion into 'Green Belt' type of areas, such as what is happening in West and North Newcastle in suburbs such as "Newcastle Great Park". The expansions of the civilised City Centre (useable public streets and buildings) that is currently taking place at Downing Plaza, Stephenson Quarter and Newcastle Helix, etc, involve the construction of multi-million pound major City Centre Style buildings into an already fully urbanised area. The Newcastle Breweries site covered much of Helix and Downing and thus did not form part of the useable City Centre by the general public. That has rapidly changed in recent years (and is still ongoing) with the very first of the large new buildings only being constructed in late 2009. Now look at it . . .

Our City Centre is currently rapidly expanding outwards, as can be seen in all the tower cranes around Stephenson Quarter, and Newcastle Helix, etc. Our City Centre open spaces will naturally become a more obvious part of that, such as the "Castle Leazes" area of Town Moor.

This is the new thing to W A I T for, it really is! We will need a sensible period with Jones as Caretaker Manager to find the very "best Director of Football" in the world (the best name is already being regularly mentioned for this) THEN, between him and the Board, to find the "best Manager in the world". Our new owners will only ever want 'worlds best' (or as near as they can get to that) for everything, and this takes T I M E, I would imagine, quite a lot of very careful time!

This is a view of the 1997 proposed new stadium, thowing the walk to it through open space and landscaped extension to Leazes Park . . .

Our main City Centre Park is the Town Moor, it is huge and stretches from the City Centre to various parts of Newcastle (from West to East) Fenham, Kenton, Gosforth and Jesmond. Some areas of Town Moor have been landscaped into defined 'Victorian Style' City Centre parkland, namely Exhibition Park and Leazes Park (all 'Town Moor' land). So, we are very well off for green spacwithing the City Centre, though we could do with more Public Squares, like Old Eldon Square. The Reuben Brothers are planning some of these withing their EPS ('East Pilgrim Street') proposals.

Unlikely to be true.

As I understand it, the freehold of the stadium site belongs to Newcastle City Council.

T O D A Y (Thursday 14th October 2021) is exactly one week after the Takeover, and it is also "BYE-BYE BRUCIE DAY"

This is how the proposals were illustrated in 1997 . . .

This 1997 proposal is explained in my post about two posts above from your post.

This is how Leazes Park opposite Leazes Terrace (with the East Stand gone) was going to look like with the half-sized St James' Park Arena plans . . .

Yes, the City Council had approved it, and (amazingly) the Freemen had agreed to support it. They liked the plans for an enlarged Leazes Park encroaching into part of the land that had been occupied by the football stadium. That (St James' Park) was going to be reduced in size by about 50% of land area, and would have been converted into an indoor arena. Local protest groups had gained support though and would have taken it to a public enquiry. It would all have taken far too long SJH said, so they opted to expand St James' Park instead.

E X C U S E M E !!!!!!

Yes, I posted this link about that earlier in the week . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/quayside-west-ex-calders-yard-site-heliport-site-and-newcastle-arena-future-site-newcastle-various-approved.983200/post-168894560

The Newcastle Green Belt is about five miles to the North, so I assume you mean "Town Moor Land" like Castle Leazes and Leazes Park. It will be difficult to obtain permissions from the Freemen . . . http://freemenofnewcastle.org/

Amazing how quickly (some) people look on the down-side of everything, even things that have not happened, automatically 'imagining' an unlikely worst-case scenario.

It will be today or tomorrow (Thursday). It will be no later than Thursday, in my opinion.