MK Dons

[ditchy]

Well Pissed off to see that they are starting work on building there new stadium next month in time for 2006/2007 season ..We cant even get a decision outof Jonny Pisspot yet !!

 

[ditchy]

Well Pissed off to see that they are starting work on building there new stadium next month in time for 2006/2007 season ..We cant even get a decision outof Jonny Pisspot yet !!

Apologies their !!

 

[fatbadger]

How come a proper, community-based football club can't get a decision, but a bastardised joke of a 'club' can?

 

[readingstockport]

Bit of mis-information being put about from the winkie here. AGAIN.

They are not starting work on the stadium it seems. Apparently some prepartory/enabling work is being carried out on the site in readiness for the actual construction to begin. But they have not yet recieved full planning permission, something to with something called an s106. On this site
http://donsmk.ipbhost.com/
there is a (be nice, she's a nice anti-franny lady) Palace fan who has legal experience in planning issues and she tends to explain things a lot better thanI do.

 

[m20gull]

Perhaps because there is no bit of MK that could be described as an AONB

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

theyve only just had a new one where they ripped up the national hockey center havent they?

 

[fatbadger]

I didn't think they HAD ripped up the national hockey centre - aren't they just using it?

 

[Curious Orange]

Franchise are using the National Hockey Centre in a similar way to we are using Withdean, temporary stands and all that. I suspect that an astroturf pitch will have had to be removed to make way for a grass one though.

 

[fatbadger]

Franchise are using the National Hockey Centre in a similar way to we are using Withdean, temporary stands and all that. I suspect that an astroturf pitch will have had to be removed to make way for a grass one though.

I've just checked - and you're spot on.

 

[sully]

The S106 agreement is the same as what we've had to negotiate for Falmer.

Basically, it spells out all the things you have to do to appease the local authorities before they'll let you use the site. It usually includes access, transport policy and the like.

No surprise that MK didn't have theirs sorted prior to putting the application in, as this is usually the case. The specifics will come out of the conditions attached to the planning approval, no doubt.

Not a planning expert, myself, but I think all that's correct! I'm sure others will correct me if I've got anything wrong.

 

[BrightonFoxDave]

Good God! Can't believe that Franchise could get a stadium site before Brighton. Outrageous. Hopefully they'll call it all off when no-one turns up there this season.

I have to live with the embarrasment that my club decided to go and play a friendly in Milton Keynes, despite the Foxes Trust opposing the game and calling for a boycott. What with Administration and La Manga, why do they want to court even more controversy?

We should have come down to Brighton again and supported a proper club in their stadium bid!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Can't wait for the Franchise to play in their new, 30,000 seater stadium.

Should look amazing when 2,143 people cram into it for the visit of Kidderminster Harriers, or Rochdale.

 

[Sweetie]

They will not be around come the start of 2006/07 season so don't see the point in starting any kind of work on a new stadium..

 

[fatbadger]

They will not be around come the start of 2006/07 season

Only if football fans work hard (and together) to ensure that they go out of business. So no complacency, please!

I remember hearing some Norwich fan on 606 stating how proud he was that over 5000 Norwich fans had made it to the midweek game against Winkelman FC. If 5000 Albion fans went there, I would be deeply ashamed.

 

[chips and gravy]

Can't wait for the Franchise to play in their new, 30,000 seater stadium.

Should look amazing when 2,143 people cram into it for the visit of Kidderminster Harriers, or Rochdale.

Or AFC Wimbledon, Worthing, Lewes, Arundel etc

 

[Storer68]

Franchise are using the National Hockey Centre in a similar way to we are using Withdean, temporary stands and all that. I suspect that an astroturf pitch will have had to be removed to make way for a grass one though.

They don't need to. FIFA have now made artificial surfaces acceptable since 1 July

At its 118th Annual General Meeting in London today (28 February 2004), the International Football Association Board (IFAB), chaired by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, approved a number of amendments to the Laws of the Game.
Key decisions reached included the following:

- Law 1 – The Field of Play: If permitted under the applicable competition rules, matches may be played on a natural turf or artificial turf surface. In the case of artificial turf, the surface must meet the requisite quality standards (i.e. the FIFA Quality Concept for Artificial Turf or the International Artificial Turf Standard).

 

[Curious Orange]

They don't need to. FIFA have now made artificial surfaces acceptable since 1 July

At its 118th Annual General Meeting in London today (28 February 2004), the International Football Association Board (IFAB), chaired by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, approved a number of amendments to the Laws of the Game.
Key decisions reached included the following:

- Law 1 – The Field of Play: If permitted under the applicable competition rules, matches may be played on a natural turf or artificial turf surface. In the case of artificial turf, the surface must meet the requisite quality standards (i.e. the FIFA Quality Concept for Artificial Turf or the International Artificial Turf Standard).

Is hockey astroturf the same as football astroturf though?

 

[fatbadger]

They don't need to.

Yes, well, they DID.

I believe it is the League's rules which say they must use grass.

 

[berkshire seagull]

MMMMMM you get the dons getting the big off for a new stadia and also doncaster,so we all no they come in three'ssssss