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Post by zonkers on Mar 2, 2010 12:19:22 GMT
BELLE VUE: ACES UNVEIL NEW STADIUM PLANS Tuesday March 02, 2010 PLANS for Belle Vue to have a £6m dream new home were revealed today. The Manchester Evening News reported speedway's best kept secret that the Aces have been holding talks for two years to move just 100 metres along Kirkmanshulme Lane in Gorton. The club race at the Belle Vue greyhound stadium but negotiations for a move into a state-of-the-art arena at the Council-owned hockey facility next door are understood to be at an advanced stage. The Aces have been in discussions with senior executives at Manchester City Council and the New East Manchester authority which has been driving a massive regeneration of the area for almost ten years. Representatives of the parties involved confirmed that talks were in progress but were reluctant to expand. Aces' boss David Gordon said: “The only thing I will confirm is that we have been in discussions with Manchester City Council for some time. “We have discussed various options. That is the only comment I can make at this moment in time.” A spokesperson for New East Manchester said: “Some discussions have taken place and there are a number of options being considered, all of which need to be thoroughly evaluated.” (BSPA) And here.... www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/speedway/s/1194273_belle_vue_aces_in_talks_over_stadium_switch |
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Post by Genghis on Mar 2, 2010 12:50:59 GMT
BELLE VUE: ACES UNVEIL NEW STADIUM PLANS Tuesday March 02, 2010 PLANS for Belle Vue to have a £6m dream new home were revealed today. The Manchester Evening News reported speedway's best kept secret that the Aces have been holding talks for two years to move just 100 metres along Kirkmanshulme Lane in Gorton. The club race at the Belle Vue greyhound stadium but negotiations for a move into a state-of-the-art arena at the Council-owned hockey facility next door are understood to be at an advanced stage. The Aces have been in discussions with senior executives at Manchester City Council and the New East Manchester authority which has been driving a massive regeneration of the area for almost ten years. Representatives of the parties involved confirmed that talks were in progress but were reluctant to expand. Aces' boss David Gordon said: “The only thing I will confirm is that we have been in discussions with Manchester City Council for some time. “We have discussed various options. That is the only comment I can make at this moment in time.” A spokesperson for New East Manchester said: “Some discussions have taken place and there are a number of options being considered, all of which need to be thoroughly evaluated.” (BSPA) And here.... www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/speedway/s/1194273_belle_vue_aces_in_talks_over_stadium_switchGood news for Belle Vue. The sooner they get out of a GRA-owned stadium the better.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2010 23:37:56 GMT
Having read the article in the Speedway Star on this venture, I'd like to wish everyone involved the very best of luck. They are hoping to reproduce the size and shape of Hyde Road in this purpose built stadium.......halcyon days if it comes off !!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2010 21:34:50 GMT
Having read the article in the Speedway Star on this venture, I'd like to wish everyone involved the very best of luck. They are hoping to reproduce the size and shape of Hyde Road in this purpose built stadium.......halcyon days if it comes off !!! I too hope this comes off Kev as we're getting less and less joy out of the GRA. Track, to be fair, isn't great, viewing is fecking awful and the facilities are a joke. Sooner we're out of there the better. In the M.E.N today there was an article about the proposed stadium which stated that Ole Olsen and Paul Bellamy had also given their backing to the plans. Yesterdays article featured the thumbs up from Eric Broadbelt, Ken Eyre and Alan Wilkinson. Fingers Crossed. |
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Post by schumi on Mar 8, 2010 8:07:45 GMT
Ole Olsen, the most powerful man in international speedway, has guaranteed that Manchester will be awarded world championship racing if Belle Vue's planned new stadium goes ahead.Plans for a new home for the Aces were revealed exclusively in MEN Sport earlier this week and Olsen, the speedway director of sport at the International Motor Federation, has joined the widespread support the scheme is attracting. Olsen, who won three world titles for Denmark in the 1970s, was the grand prix race director from 1995 until last year when he was promoted by the FIM to be responsible for driving the development of the championship. He has been to Manchester to meet Aces bosses David Gordon and Chris Morton, along with Paul Bellamy, managing director of BSI who own the rights to stage the world championship. Olsen said: "It is time for Great Britain to have a modern stadium with full FIM status. The one being proposed at Belle Vue would attract any FIM event. The city has a great history for speedway and it would be wonderful to see those days return. "Speedway is expanding everywhere apart from Britain with more and more cities making approaches to stage a grand prix or a round of the World Cup. "A lot of people are screaming for a grand prix and it would be great if Manchester was able to stage world championship racing at a club with such a famous name as Belle Vue." Olsen added: "Manchester is the ideal city for a speedway centre because it already has such a strong sporting tradition. "It would be good for the FIM to have a stadium in Britain which we knew would meet the required criteria for world events without it having to be checked every year. It is just what is needed. "It would also be great for the Belle Vue club because it would give them the chance to provide the training facilities which would get the kids back into speedway." www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/speedway
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 13:15:55 GMT
What are the odds on the BSPA/SCB giving their backing to the new stadium???
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 23:04:43 GMT
What are the odds on the BSPA/SCB giving their backing to the new stadium??? I'm sure they'll fully support the venture.......verbally, but not financially!! |
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