$40-45 Million Soccer Specific Stadium - Petone Phoenix

"I spoke to a friend In ngaio who said they wouldn't make the trip for games. Therefore no parent in their right mind would make the trip"

"I spoke to a friend in kapiti who thought it was petone memorial. Therefore most people think its petone memorial"

Also...Why is petone memorial ok, but not petone rec? 

Nimby. 

Also, its a 'soccer ground' not a rugby or a league ground. 

Interesting. 

Anyone go to the Council meeting this morning, or heard what happened with the $25M getting into the Council budget?

Memorial is also well away from Jackson St. which is one of the key selling points for a Petone venue.

Memorial Park would be a disaster. Traffic was bad enough when a couple of hundred went there for a Nix preseason game.

memorial number one is now an artificial deck right - can't see the council ripping that up after just having it layed.

Giggity

layed not laid.

Trevor Mallard, a little flippantly I think, has suggested North Park.

Today at HCC - http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hutt-valley/9766489/Hutt-Council-asked-to-back-Petone-stadium

and so the process starts.

Be fascinating to understand the motivations of Carl Bakker, see article. He runs the Petone Urban Environment Association (PUEA). They stifled the PWMC development. Friend notes that they were, as far as she can tell, silent on the Ryman aged care village over on the old 'Petone Tech' site.

Some of the subjects covered in that meeting.  Wow.  Stretching hard.

I still think the people behind the stadium are missing out by being so quiet.  They need to front foot this issue by issue.  Bombard with a PR campaign that one day has Petone Rugby syaing nice things.  3 or 4 days later the PWMC, 3 or 4 days later the Jackson St merchants. 

Then somethnin showing the stadium plan with a clear image of the remaining (ample) space being used by Children and people walking dogs, and touch players.

Agreed HN... the snowball is getting bigger.

Maybe they should engage me a a PR consultant for the two years and $200k per annum.

I haven't read the Hutt News yet.  I'll dig it out.

what is this flyer? Anyone care to take a pic and post or something?

No flyer in my Hutt News. But am one block from the Rec so they probably ran out.

Build a stadium at Petone Rec or these cute kittens get stomped on.

We should go for something like Dartford FC's stadium - totally undermine the greenies from the start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_Park,_Dartford

"Construction work began on 14 November 2005. Designed by Alexander Sedgley architects, the stadium has a capacity of 4,100 (642 seated), and has been described as one of the most ecologically sound ever built.[1] The pitch level is sunk two meters below the external ground level to reduce noise and light pollution. It is estimated to have cost around £7 million. The stadium was opened on 11 November 2006 when Dartford FC, who had been without a home ground in the borough since 1992, beat Horsham YMCA 4-2 in an Isthmian League Division One South league fixture, in front of a capacity 4,097 crowd.[2]

The environmental aspects of the stadium include - The stadium roof has a sedum roof blanket, a living roof that provides a natural air filtration system. solar panelson the roof serve the community changing areas and public toilets hot water storage cylinders. The roof is supported by treated Glulam timber beams. Water recyclingsystem which serves the toilets within the clubhouse. Rain water is collected in the two large ponds at the north end of the stadium grounds. Underfloor heating on both levels of the clubhouse. Low energy lighting. Increased fabric insulation to give the clubhouse better thermal retention and efficiency. Condensing boilers to provide a more energy efficient system. Also excavated earth was reused for landscaping the external courtyard areas around the stadium.[2]"

Take that hippies! What can you complain about now!?

Also, interesting article about designing stadia to create crowd atmosphere here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22110898

Great concept. This being Petone, who knows what kind of grass could be grown effectively on the roof of the stadium?

Indeed.  Could even go as far as to grow a lot of cabbage.

Won't anybody think of the children?!

The more I think about it though, the more I reckon the whole "green stadium" idea should be explored. Make a big deal out of all the ecofriendly features, integrate it into public recreational space around there, use recycled material where possible, and potentially save money on operating costs down the road by building in energy saving features etc. Obviously our Petone ground would have to be substantially bigger than Princes Park but 7 million pounds for that stadium about 10 years ago still seems cheap - it doesn't seem like the cost of building like that would be that prohibitive.

Grass on a roof. Challenge accepted.

So we won't have a roof with grass on it? :(