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The final test for Rose Bowl
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A MULTI-million pound plan to turn Hampshire Rose Bowl into a home for international Test cricket could soon take a major step forward.
Eighteen months ago Hampshire Cricket chiefs unveiled spectacular proposals to transform the West End ground into a £35m superbowl.
Now Eastleigh councillors are being recommended to approve the creation of a new-look stadium with a seating capacity for 25,000 spectators.
It would make it the second biggest English ground after Lords and put it on track to becoming the first of a new generation of Test grounds.
The proposals would also boost the Rose Bowl's capacity for staging pop concerts, which have in the past included The Who and Billy Joel.
Plans include a four-storey 175-bedroom hotel.
New stands
There would be a media centre with press boxes, broadcasting area and a 200-seat lounge, restaurant and bars, conference centre and leisure centre.
New spectator stands on the west and east sides of the ground will have capacity for 25,000 spectators. The golf course will be redesigned and increased to 18 holes.
If it clears all the planning hurdles, it is planned to have the hotel and new stands ready for the 2010 season.
At the end of this month the council's Hedge End, West End and Botley Local Area Committee will consider a report covering more than 50 pages on the Rose Bowl application.
Planners are recommending the permission should be given but at the end of the day Eastleigh might not have the final say.
If permission is granted it would have to be referred to the Secretary of State who would consider whether to call it in to determine whether there should be a public inquiry into the proposals.
In the report to the committee, planning officer Dawn Errington says: "The application states that one of the main purposes of the development is to complete the stadium in a way that satisfies the requirements of the English Cricket Board for Test match venues.
"Although the club has been successful in achieving allocations of one-day international games its applications for Test matches have not so far been successful.
"The ECB has established specifications which must be achieved in order that venues are awarded Test matches.
"The club aspirations are to achieve those specifications."
More than 160 local residents were notified by the council about the application. So far there have been ten letters of objection and one of support.
Concerns include traffic gridlock in West End, pollution and impact on the landscape.
5:25am Saturday 29th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: A Nimby, West End on 9:30am Sat 29 Mar 08
No totally unacceptable. Clearly in the wrong place. Will cause chaos. Anyone can see it should have been built somewhere else entirely. I'm not a Nimby but.....
No totally unacceptable. Clearly in the wrong place. Will cause chaos. Anyone can see it should have been built somewhere else entirely. I'm not a Nimby but.....
Posted by: huckit P, Winchester on 9:43am Sat 29 Mar 08
No problems with expansion but give the facility its own motorway junction to relieve the pressure on surrounding roads! Functions at the Rose Bowl turn Hedge End and West End into traffic nightmares!
No problems with expansion but give the facility its own motorway junction to relieve the pressure on surrounding roads! Functions at the Rose Bowl turn Hedge End and West End into traffic nightmares!
Posted by: Dan, West End on 9:56am Sat 29 Mar 08
Well I'm all for it. I've been to concerts at the Rose Bowl and have throughly enjoyed having such a facility on my doorstep.
World class facilities attract traffic, and I really hope the NIMBYs don't ruin it for the rest of us.
Well I'm all for it. I've been to concerts at the Rose Bowl and have throughly enjoyed having such a facility on my doorstep.
World class facilities attract traffic, and I really hope the NIMBYs don't ruin it for the rest of us.
Posted by: Ian, Turkey on 10:23am Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]A Nimby[/bold] wrote:
No totally unacceptable. Clearly in the wrong place. Will cause chaos. Anyone can see it should have been built somewhere else entirely. I'm not a Nimby but..... [/quote] and where would you suggest?
A Nimby wrote:
No totally unacceptable. Clearly in the wrong place. Will cause chaos. Anyone can see it should have been built somewhere else entirely. I'm not a Nimby but.....
and where would you suggest?
Posted by: local on 10:36am Sat 29 Mar 08
Rose Bowl: world class venue on your doorstep. Great for open air gigs.
Don't switch on those 300 floodlights tonight though!
Rose Bowl: world class venue on your doorstep. Great for open air gigs.
Don't switch on those 300 floodlights tonight though!
Posted by: Mike, Hedge End on 11:30am Sat 29 Mar 08
Ref the traffic, this will be greatly increased once the 4000 or so extra house are built to the north of the Hedge End station. J7 is something of a disaster area on ocassions as it is, and I am sure that the residents of West End don't want any more vehicles going through their main street.
Ref the traffic, this will be greatly increased once the 4000 or so extra house are built to the north of the Hedge End station. J7 is something of a disaster area on ocassions as it is, and I am sure that the residents of West End don't want any more vehicles going through their main street.
Posted by: amused, Botley on 12:10pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Love the Freudian slip by the Head of Regeneration at point 74 in the report: 'There is no objection to the golf course in principle as it will retail [italic](not retain)[/italic] the
green and open landscape'
Love the Freudian slip by the Head of Regeneration at point 74 in the report: 'There is no objection to the golf course in principle as it will retail
(not retain) the
green and open landscape'
Posted by: gorf, soton on 12:16pm Sat 29 Mar 08
maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic
maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic
Posted by: Think about it on 2:08pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]gorf[/bold] wrote:
maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic[/quote] Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don't they?
gorf wrote:
maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic
Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don't they?
Posted by: Ian, Turkey on 2:26pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Think about it[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]gorf[/bold] wrote: maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic[/quote] Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don't they?[/quote] Not on its own, but opening junction 6 relieve the daily pressure on junctions 5 and 7
Think about it wrote:
gorf wrote: maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic
Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don't they?
Not on its own, but opening junction 6 relieve the daily pressure on junctions 5 and 7
Posted by: Some who actually lives in, West End on 3:35pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Ian[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]Think about it[/bold] wrote: [quote][bold]gorf[/bold] wrote: maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic[/quote] Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don\\\'t they?[/quote] Not on its own, but opening junction 6 relieve the daily pressure on junctions 5 and 7[/quote] And where would junction six go, exactly?
Allington Lane, in the middle of a residential area? What about the centre of West End?
Or how about right beside the Rose Bowl, right on top of J7.
I use both junctions at rush hour throughout the week, and neither are so bad that they require another junction at a cost of tens of millions of pounds.
The Rose Bowl does not create problems half as bad as people on here would have you believe. Yeah, it gets busy, to have those faciliteis on my doorstep, I'll happily put up with an hour or so worths of traffic disruption.
Ian wrote:
Think about it wrote: gorf wrote: maybe the M27 junction 6 should be built to relive the traffic
Becasuse half a dozen big events a year justify the construction of a brand new motorway junction, don't they?
Not on its own, but opening junction 6 relieve the daily pressure on junctions 5 and 7
And where would junction six go, exactly?
Allington Lane, in the middle of a residential area? What about the centre of West End?
Or how about right beside the Rose Bowl, right on top of J7.
I use both junctions at rush hour throughout the week, and neither are so bad that they require another junction at a cost of tens of millions of pounds.
The Rose Bowl does not create problems half as bad as people on here would have you believe. Yeah, it gets busy, to have those faciliteis on my doorstep, I'll happily put up with an hour or so worths of traffic disruption.
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