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Flats and health centre at Latics?
Reporter: Dawn Marsden
Date online: 11 March 2010
UP to 140 flats for hospital workers could be built next to Oldham Athletic’s ground.
Plans for the development, which ranges from three to six storeys, also include a new health centre and car park spaces behind the Rochdale Road stand at Boundary Park.
The health centre will front on to Sheepfoot Lane while the accommodation would be closest to Carlton Way.
Residents in these two streets along with home owners in Cumberland Drive, Furtherwood Road, Prestbury Drive and Colville Road have been sent letters outlining the plans.
The proposals will be discussed at a future meeting of Oldham Council’s planning committee.
In September last year, Latics submitted an application to build 94 new three and four bedroom homes on the old Clayton Arms site in a joint venture with Chadderton-based Holroy Developments.
Latics first got planning permission for houses and flats as part of a major rebuilding scheme at Boundary Park in 2007 but the club say a change in the housing market have forced a rethink.
Comments
How about creating a park their instead?
I want Latics to continue playing football at their spiritual home of Boundary Park, Redevelop BP as per plans that were submitted and that the LOYAL fans of Latics demonstrated against to be approved, just another kick in the teeth for Latics fans from owners who don't care about them.
Now all you "doggy walkers" who protested about Boundary Park being moved to the Clayton playing fields and vice versa...have to suffer the start and certainly not the end!.. of a new Housing Estate right on your doorsteps.
When you think about it., surely the original proposal was the best idea?...the football club would have a new ground, Clayton playing fields would all be brand new with PROPER drainage !...and you would have those lovely amateur football pitches to let your dogs foul on !
Are these for all the foreign workers which the NHS needs as a result of its failure to train enough workers from the UK?
This area is currently used as a car park and the new plan seems to make scant concession to providing any spaces at all.
So more services and more demand, and fewer car paking spaces, doesn't take a genius to work out what's going to happen does it.
Why flats for hospital workers, isn't being a bit discriminatory and what about people with families + children, or are they trying to get on the good side of the poor poor taxpayers of oldham
see this is whats needed! not dodgy dealings to try and grab land cheaply.
if latics had got the ball rolling on this scheme when the originally thought of it they would have sold off nearly everything before the reccession even hit us!
I'd like to know what disruption this will cause to the ground itself because surely stringent safety measures will be have to be adhered to and access to BP will have to be re-jigged.
Great news if it brings in funds to aid the new ground/BP redevelopment.
Don't believe anything until you see a spade go in the ground.
Latics Observer - It's nothing to do with antisocial dog owners. It has everything to do with Latics trying to pinch a charitable trust and asset strip it. At the time Latics was worth about £5M whereas Clayton was worth £24M. They would have swapped BP for Clayton, built two superstores on Clayton and used the 19M to build a stadium on Westwood Park. good or bad - depends on how honest you are.
The plans are not what the borough needs we need family homes 2/3 bedrooms not flats they will look stupid and where are all the match day cars going to park??? The residents don't want the club to suffer but 6 storey flats aren't the answer semi and detatched homes are! with an area set aside for parking. NO TO THE PLANS
Spot on Latics Observer. Sports Park 2000 would have seen a stadium in the corner of Clayton Playing Fields overlooking the roundabout between Broadway and Chadderton Way. This would have been mostly out of sight of the residents who complained about the last Boundary Park re-development plans. Ironic indeed! However, I'm sure no one will object to the latest plans for key worker homes for local NHS staff?
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Well, it could have been a drive-thru' MacDonalds. Maybe something will come of this plan but who knows with this club and this council?
By dramasingapore @ 11/03/2010 12:33:55