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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 18, 2018 20:01:11 GMT
Hmmm, well that's the way it came across. I've said before that the problem with the idea of a stadium at The Colony is to do with access - just a narrow country lane, Hortham Lane, off the A38. Now if you used part of the large area of land just north, just the other side of Hortham Lane, that Ed Ware Housing has plans for a housing estate, you could gain better access from the A38, and the possibility of a link to the M5. But I doubt that would happen. The site discussed on here regarding Ed Ware has not been submitted to the government for consideration. <iframe width="31.519999999999982" height="6.1200000000000045" style="position: absolute; width: 31.519999999999982px; height: 6.1200000000000045px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_33202643" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="31.519999999999982" height="6.1200000000000045" style="position: absolute; width: 31.52px; height: 6.12px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1508px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_94624204" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="31.519999999999982" height="6.1200000000000045" style="position: absolute; width: 31.52px; height: 6.12px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 243px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_8822326" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="31.519999999999982" height="6.1200000000000045" style="position: absolute; width: 31.52px; height: 6.12px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1508px; top: 243px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_15884518" scrolling="no"></iframe> has any other site been submitted, or is in the process of submission phil?
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 19, 2018 0:21:29 GMT
Those all look a bit sub-optimal from our point of view. And not a single mention for your hometown phil
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 19, 2018 11:06:39 GMT
from the other place yesterday.....
'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium'
'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares'
any thoughts?
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Post by laughinggas on Sept 19, 2018 12:05:23 GMT
So rent free?
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Post by Peter Parker on Sept 19, 2018 14:35:31 GMT
from the other place yesterday..... 'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium' 'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares' any thoughts? Um yeah.... Has Watola done the sums?
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Post by swissgas on Sept 19, 2018 16:33:29 GMT
from the other place yesterday..... 'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium' 'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares' any thoughts? Um yeah.... Has Watola done the sums? Good question. The highest value I have seen speculated for the Mem site is £18 million. The Dwane Sports loan with accrued interest is probably up to about £ 12 million. Which leaves about £ 6 million equity to go towards a new UWE Stadium costing say £ 35 million to build with the land still being leased. Are Nick Higgs, Ed Ware and the construction company putting up £ 29 million to build the stadium plus £ x million working capital to finance the football club and prime the pump for all those new revenue streams ? I'm optimistic but, having been bitten many times before, we should never forget that if a deal appears to be too good to be true then it probably is.
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Post by eppinggas on Sept 19, 2018 16:51:07 GMT
from the other place yesterday..... 'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium' 'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares' any thoughts? Read that thread. Someone said that Swinhay Ltd are involved with building the UWE training facility. They were also responsible for building £30mil Swinhay House. Owner of that property is the billionaire Sir David McMurtry, who owns Renishaws (Headquarters at Wotton-Under-Edge). Solid Gas area. Absolute pie in the sky dreaming I know... but I wonder if said billionaire fancies buying a football Club? Go on Sir David - you know you want to...
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Post by eppinggas on Sept 19, 2018 16:58:40 GMT
Oh - and Iain McMurtry is the co-director of Swinhay Ltd. Makes a nice conspiracy theory anyway!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 18:33:02 GMT
from the other place yesterday..... 'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium' 'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares' any thoughts? rovers own the uwe stadium ?
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Post by The Concept on Sept 19, 2018 19:45:34 GMT
from the other place yesterday..... 'Uwe have re submitted application for a Stadium' 'Deal to sell club is virtually a done deal. New owners will be a construction company from Hampshire plus Ed Ware and Nick Higgs like I mentioned earlier. Stadium back on course with a better deal than previous. Construction company will build stadium at no cost to club who will own it in exchange for Mem. They will cover costs by building a large number of houses on Mem site. Wael to retain 10% shares' any thoughts? Read that thread. Someone said that Swinhay Ltd are involved with building the UWE training facility. They were also responsible for building £30mil Swinhay House. Owner of that property is the billionaire Sir David McMurtry, who owns Renishaws (Headquarters at Wotton-Under-Edge). Solid Gas area. Absolute pie in the sky dreaming I know... but I wonder if said billionaire fancies buying a football Club? Go on Sir David - you know you want to... Yes, I read that too, but I'm wondering whether their search has confused Bristol Uni, with the UWE, about the new sports complex. On the Swinhay website they only mention work on the Bristol Uni sports complex, at Coombe Dingle - click the top left image: swinhay.com/our-projects/None of the sites I've found, for the UWE Hillside Gardens sports complex, mention Swinhay, only Verde Recreo as being contractor: a/ www.constructionmap.info/site/109487/uwe-hillside-gardens-sports-facilityb/ www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/16379509.uwe-announces-new-45-million-sports-complex/I can't find any mention at all about a contractor on the UWE website: www1.uwe.ac.uk/about/departmentsandservices/professionalservices/centreforsport/facilities/hillsidegardens.aspxInterestingly, though, there is a link in that UWE website to the 'Stakeholder Plan', and in that UWE are actively advertising for clubs, schools, tournaments, and holiday camps, to hire the facilities, which shows that there is room for at least the Rovers first team squad to use the complex if need be: www2.uwe.ac.uk/services/Marketing/about-us/Centre%20for%20Sport/Hillside-Gardens-Stakeholder-Pack.pdfSeeing as though on their website Swinhay say they worked in partnership with Verde Recreo on Coombe Dingle, there's every possibility they have again on Hillside Gardens - it's just strange that if they did I can't find any mention of it. If Rovers do end up using Hillside Gardens, it would be a coming home of sorts, as it would be a stone's throw - just over Filton Road - to the old Hambrook training ground.
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Post by eppinggas on Sept 20, 2018 8:31:44 GMT
Read that thread. Someone said that Swinhay Ltd are involved with building the UWE training facility. They were also responsible for building £30mil Swinhay House. Owner of that property is the billionaire Sir David McMurtry, who owns Renishaws (Headquarters at Wotton-Under-Edge). Solid Gas area. Absolute pie in the sky dreaming I know... but I wonder if said billionaire fancies buying a football Club? Go on Sir David - you know you want to... Yes, I read that too, but I'm wondering whether their search has confused Bristol Uni, with the UWE, about the new sports complex. On the Swinhay website they only mention work on the Bristol Uni sports complex, at Coombe Dingle - click the top left image: swinhay.com/our-projects/None of the sites I've found, for the UWE Hillside Gardens sports complex, mention Swinhay, only Verde Recreo as being contractor: a/ www.constructionmap.info/site/109487/uwe-hillside-gardens-sports-facilityb/ www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/16379509.uwe-announces-new-45-million-sports-complex/I can't find any mention at all about a contractor on the UWE website: www1.uwe.ac.uk/about/departmentsandservices/professionalservices/centreforsport/facilities/hillsidegardens.aspxInterestingly, though, there is a link in that UWE website to the 'Stakeholder Plan', and in that UWE are actively advertising for clubs, schools, tournaments, and holiday camps, to hire the facilities, which shows that there is room for at least the Rovers first team squad to use the complex if need be: www2.uwe.ac.uk/services/Marketing/about-us/Centre%20for%20Sport/Hillside-Gardens-Stakeholder-Pack.pdfSeeing as though on their website Swinhay say they worked in partnership with Verde Recreo on Coombe Dingle, there's every possibility they have again on Hillside Gardens - it's just strange that if they did I can't find any mention of it. If Rovers do end up using Hillside Gardens, it would be a coming home of sorts, as it would be a stone's throw - just over Filton Road - to the old Hambrook training ground. Excellent detective work! That's my theory pretty much blown out the water. Maybe I should start a separate thread "West Country billionaires with tenuous connections to Bristol Rovers FC".
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Post by splitter on Sept 20, 2018 9:07:04 GMT
Read that thread. Someone said that Swinhay Ltd are involved with building the UWE training facility. They were also responsible for building £30mil Swinhay House. Owner of that property is the billionaire Sir David McMurtry, who owns Renishaws (Headquarters at Wotton-Under-Edge). Solid Gas area. Absolute pie in the sky dreaming I know... but I wonder if said billionaire fancies buying a football Club? Go on Sir David - you know you want to... Yes, I read that too, but I'm wondering whether their search has confused Bristol Uni, with the UWE, about the new sports complex. On the Swinhay website they only mention work on the Bristol Uni sports complex, at Coombe Dingle - click the top left image: swinhay.com/our-projects/None of the sites I've found, for the UWE Hillside Gardens sports complex, mention Swinhay, only Verde Recreo as being contractor: a/ www.constructionmap.info/site/109487/uwe-hillside-gardens-sports-facilityb/ www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/16379509.uwe-announces-new-45-million-sports-complex/I can't find any mention at all about a contractor on the UWE website: www1.uwe.ac.uk/about/departmentsandservices/professionalservices/centreforsport/facilities/hillsidegardens.aspxInterestingly, though, there is a link in that UWE website to the 'Stakeholder Plan', and in that UWE are actively advertising for clubs, schools, tournaments, and holiday camps, to hire the facilities, which shows that there is room for at least the Rovers first team squad to use the complex if need be: www2.uwe.ac.uk/services/Marketing/about-us/Centre%20for%20Sport/Hillside-Gardens-Stakeholder-Pack.pdfSeeing as though on their website Swinhay say they worked in partnership with Verde Recreo on Coombe Dingle, there's every possibility they have again on Hillside Gardens - it's just strange that if they did I can't find any mention of it. If Rovers do end up using Hillside Gardens, it would be a coming home of sorts, as it would be a stone's throw - just over Filton Road - to the old Hambrook training ground. They mention it on their LinkedIn page... / www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6431213478635139072
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Post by axegas on Sept 20, 2018 10:48:52 GMT
Oh - and Iain McMurtry is the co-director of Swinhay Ltd. Makes a nice conspiracy theory anyway! Also joined Bristol Aero Engines and worked for Rolls Royce at Filton for many years before founding Renshaw and being involved in Swinhaw, So has definite links with the area. It seems somewhat plausible.
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Post by The Concept on Sept 20, 2018 18:12:46 GMT
Thanks for that! I now see they also have an Instagram page, that mentions working on Hillside Gardens Sports Complex: www.instagram.com/swinhayproperty/I think it's quite plausible that this site may be what Wael was referring to when he said there would be a back up of a quality training ground, if [ when] The Colony isn't ready, when time is up at Cribbs. I note that the Rovers Community Trust, and the Rovers Academy, have been using Lockleaze Sports Centre: www.lockleazesportscentre.co.uk/
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Post by droitwichgas on Sept 20, 2018 22:01:55 GMT
Thanks for that! I now see they also have an Instagram page, that mentions working on Hillside Gardens Sports Complex: www.instagram.com/swinhayproperty/I think it's quite plausible that this site may be what Wael was referring to when he said there would be a back up of a quality training ground, if [ when] The Colony isn't ready, when time is up at Cribbs. I note that the Rovers Community Trust, and the Rovers Academy, have been using Lockleaze Sports Centre: www.lockleazesportscentre.co.uk/Using the new UWE site seems to make perfect sense for both parties, the UWE get somebody to use it during the weekdays and Rovers don't have to spend £1m's developing The Colony in the short term. The McMurity's have apparently doubled their fortunes recently to well over £1B so they could finance the stadium with their loose change if they were so minded.
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Post by eppinggas on Sept 21, 2018 8:23:40 GMT
Sir David spent £30mil on a HOUSE - which by all accounts he doesn't even live in (because his missus thinks it's too flash). Imagine spending that on Bristol Rovers. Going down in history as the man who saved Bristol Rovers, gave them a stadium fit for the 21st century and propelled them towards glory. North, East Bristol and South Gloucestershire forever thankful for the legend that is Sir David McMurtry. He would go down in history. Probably. Go on Sir David. Go on, go on, go on, go on.
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