New Portsmouth waterside scenery

From a visiting football fans persepctive there are concerns that with access only really being availale from one side there will be a security issue. Certainly having all the football traffic in the same area as the tourist and shopping traffic is also an issue, but how refreshing to see a ground that is unique rather than the new stadiums at Leicester, Derby, Doncaster, Middlesborough, Stoke, Reading, Southampton, Darlington, Coventry or Sunderland which are hard to tell apart.
 
The lack of access was my first thought, but then there are plenty of other stadia that you don't have access through 360 degrees. Notts Forest are by the Trent, Southampton close to the water, Stamford Bridge has railways on two sides, as does the Emirates, so I guess it's not such an issue.

The drawings do make it look weird, but I imagine the real, concrete and glass version will look a bit more normal.
 
I think it looks fantastic! As a Newcastle fan I can see how a city centre stadium helps to bring a city together, it would be great to see the same happen to Pompy. Access via the station would be simple and they said on the TV this morning that they expect 20% of the fans to arrive by boat.
Allan
 
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they expect 20% of the fans to arrive by boat.
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Really? Surely not from Gosport, the worst driving town in the World!!!! Or are they going to set up a park and float system up near the motorway?
 
I go to the Pompey v Blackburn game by boat every year.
Tie up at Gunwharf then walk or taxi to the ground. Makes for a good day out.

Used to do a similar trip to St Mary's before Southampton got relegated. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Not sure what their plans are, I'd like to think they would take your second option but find it difficult to see how the finances would work. It would be good for the local boat operaters.
Allan
Maybe they could concrete over Port Solent? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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I can't believe the Navy are getting rid of the USG....and I can't think of anywhere else a stadium might remotely fit. Wind up?

[/ QUOTE ]The computor generated pictures do not show the stadium on the United Services Ground. (That and HMS Temeraire is the large patch of green on the RHS of the third picture down on the website).

However, I can't see how its going to fit in between the railway and the historic dockyard. It also seems to be sitting on the top of HMS WARRIOR (which could be moved) - but I still can't imagine a structure of that size fitting in that area....
 
HMS Warrior will be relocated northwards into a new purpose built dock. There are also plans for a small marina for visiting boats at the eastern (landward) edge of the ground, with access via locks.
 
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I think it looks fantastic! As a Newcastle fan I can see how a city centre stadium helps to bring a city together,

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Like bring all the brain dead shaven headed no neck chavs together to swear, chant and fight each other around all the plate glass windows amongst the shoppers, kids and other innocent bystanders?

Surely the best place for a football stadium is well away from civilisation?

Or is the idea to get them all on board then tow the whole thing out to sea and open the seacocks? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Now thats a plan - but how on earth is a stadium of that size going to fit it the proposed site. Perhaps they have the heads up on the closure of the Navy base??? I know the area very well, and for many years had my office opposite The Hard and to me the pictorial design proposals don't fit the space available - and as for parking it's hard enough now let alone with Xx thousand additional people pouring in. Security would be problematic and challenging I guess for the local residents. Good for jobs, good for the local economy! but hardly an attractive design.
 
Wow! 1,500 apartments wrapped around the stadium - 22 storeys high. I hope all the occupants like footie.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a sort of Traitor's Gate leading into the stadium into which purpose-built ferries could glide and deposit their seasick hoards directly on to the stands.

I think it's a great use for a bit of derelict mud but I expect Nelson is turning in his barrel of brandy.
 
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