Official Nelmsy Campus Countdown

[BCram]

I was ex̌pressing my opinion. See what happens if you express opinions about topics. Islay has lots of opinions about lots of things. Noah is always short and , sharp, Deeranged is well informed and has pockets of knowledge that can be insightful, jdfc is consistent and has a long running tease about posties, Rross is thought provoking and a bit woke, that's my attempt at a joke.

There are others who have very different viewpoints. Just see what happens if you join in on a topic.

[islaydarkblue]

Do you not think TK is interested in the new stadium?

No.
Bob Hynd told us at a Dee4life board of directors meeting in 2019 where I was a non voting guest that Tim Keyes had tried to sell the 29.7 acres site north of the Kingsway known as Campy Nou shortly after he had purchased it back to the previous owners but they were not interested in buying it back.
No wonder.
Four days after Tim Keyes had purchased the site from Vico Camperdown Limited on 8th July 2016 the Vico Camperdown Limited directors redeemed a standard security held over the site by the Bank of Ireland for ?1.5 million.
The 29.7 acres Campy Nou site had been advertised for sale for. 5 years with no one interested until Nelmsy arrived on the scene.

[islaydarkblue]

I don't think it will be built. Stadium impossible to fit in, housing instead. FPS get money back and focus on playing side and revamp SE.to hold hospo and 3k of fans. My dream.

How are FPS going to get their money back if they are due ?7 million plus in loans plus we have managed to make a loss of ?2.8 million despite playing in the ?riches? of the Premier League last season.
A week past Wednesday after the end of Dave Forbes funeral a life long Dundee FC supporter told us that he longer goes to home games at Dens Park because he is scunnered with everything to do with Dundee Football Club.

[Deeranged]

Rross is thought provoking and a bit woke, that's my attempt at a joke.
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Definitely a bit woke

[BP33]

Definitely a bit woke

There’s plenty of so called life long DFC fans that don’t go to games. That’s nothing to do with FPS.

[Deeranged]

There’s plenty of so called life long DFC fans that don’t go to games. That’s nothing to do with FPS.

I'll assume you quoted the wrong post.

Totally agree though, all experts on Dundee FC and all happy to grab any excuse not to go to Dens.

[BCram]

How are FPS going to get their money back if they are due ?7 million plus in loans plus we have managed to make a loss of ?2.8 million despite playing in the ?riches? of the Premier League last season.
A week past Wednesday after the end of Dave Forbes funeral a life long Dundee FC supporter told us that he longer goes to home games at Dens Park because he is scunnered with everything to do with Dundee Football Club.

If the stadium access is the only thing preventing development, why would it's removal also be a problem? Surely the planners can't have it both ways. No solution to access so no stadium does not imply, no stadium, no development? I don't know the answer to how much money they might make but it might be something for them to consider?

[islaydarkblue]

If the stadium access is the only thing preventing development, why would it's removal also be a problem? Surely the planners can't have it both ways. No solution to access so no stadium does not imply, no stadium, no development? I don't know the answer to how much money they might make but it might be something for them to consider?

In my opinion anyone with any sense would not build a 12,500 seat football stadium on a land locked site with the main access to the stadium car parks from the dual carriageway A90 trunk road from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen.
In 2018 and 2019 I used to attend the Dee4life board of directors meetings as a non voting guest.
At every meeting I attended there was always a discussion about the new stadium development at Campy Nou including the latest progress.
Back then there were major problems about the access to the new stadium car parks before and exiting them after the game.
Bob Hynd told us in 2018 Police Scotland wanted all the spectators cars and supporters buses to be parked in the new stadium car parks which at that time had space allocated for 1,362 cars and 80 supporters buses.
Police Scotland did not want spectators parking their cars in the housing schemes and industrial estate on the opposite side of the Kingsway from the new stadium car parks in Campy Nou.
It would be interesting to know what Police Scotland’s latest position is regarding the directors of Dark Blue Property Holdings Limited latest solution to the supporters buses and cars being parked outwith the new stadium car parks which are now for only those and such as those.
Now seven years later nothing has been resolved regarding the parking problems for spectators attending home games at the new stadium car park at Campy Nou which gives me the impression that it suits John Nelms to keep kicking the can down the road’ and blaming everyone else for this impasse despite Nelms having known at least seven years ago that there was a major problem.

[Deeranged]

In my opinion anyone with any sense would not build a 12,500 seat football stadium on a land locked site with the main access to the stadium car parks from the dual carriageway A90 trunk road from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen.

And yet anyone with even a modicum of common sense can see that right on a major trunk road where traffic can access and egress quickly and efficiently without having to encounter traffic lights, roundabouts, housing schemes, pedestrians etc. on their way to the nearest major trunk road is exactly the right place for such a thing.

I'm sure Police Scotland will have been fully consulted on the latest traffic management plan and doubt it would have been submitted should they have proclaimed major misgivings.

[BCram]

And yet anyone with even a modicum of common sense can see that right on a major trunk road where traffic can access and egress quickly and efficiently without having to encounter traffic lights, roundabouts, housing schemes, pedestrians etc. on their way to the nearest major trunk road is exactly the right place for such a thing.

I'm sure Police Scotland will have been fully consulted on the latest traffic management plan and doubt it would have been submitted should they have proclaimed major misgivings.

I agree with the initial comments. I think the problem is that there is not a suitable area to allow traffic queuing to enter the site and there is insufficient space allocated to car and bus parking available within the site.