So I went down to the Gate on Thursday lunchtime to take a peek at the latest plans.
The first thing to say, of course, is that having a stadium redeveloped is going to be far better - locally- than having a massive supermarket.
From what I gleaned, it won't be more imposing than the existing stadium, so no problem there either.
With a ground share, with the rugby club, there will be more matches, but I'm not sure how many go to see the rugby team - I presume it is less than the average footie attendance. So some more traffic, but - more people using local shops/pubs.
They also talk of making best use of the facility on non-match days - so back to the conferencing stuff. They have this now, of course....but presumeably this will be a better facility. The volume of traffic this will generate will be small, and far, far smaller than a supermarket, and probably won't really be noticeable.
The bigger capacity of the ground means the potential for more traffic on match days, but you always face that - a successful team will attract more fans, an unsuccessful one less.
All in all, this is something i'd like to support. Just awaiting the detail.....
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