Saracens are one of my customers, so I know Copthall / Allianz Park / StoneX Stadium pretty well.
The problem is that 'temporary stands' are not 'temporary' to the point that they can be erected and dismantled through the course of a season. Those stands go up and stay up for the entire rugby...
It is a 'proper' velodrome. Not a Track Cycling 200 / 250m velodrome, obviously, but valid all the same - and extremely important historically.
And whilst I understand what you are suggesting regarding a multi-use facility, no such suitable surface (to my knowledge) exists - and it is within my...
What is with all the proposals to gain ourselves a new facility, at the cost of destroying somebody else's community asset?
The second part of your suggestion is a complete non starter. There is no possibility that there is room for both at Withdean.
Withdean is a well used public athletics facility - the only 400m track in the entire city of Brighton and Hove. There are lots of places people can play football.
Any proposal to build a stadium there (that removes the track) will get no support from me, or I would hope, many other...