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Levy confirms Lane renovation ‘dead in water’
News | Sam Parker | February 8, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Daniel Levy has confirmed that the only way Spurs will get an improved stadium currently is to move to the Olympic venue, for which they are currently battling West Ham for.
Spurs were also looking at renovating their current stadium, but enlarging and rotating White Hart Lane.
However, despite council approval for the Northumberland Development Project, the cost to build a ground there has now made it impossible.
“That is absolutely dead in the water,” Levy said.
“We have made it clear that the current stadium proposals at Tottenham are not viable so that is not something we are able to proceed with.
“At the moment we do not have an alternative.”
Levy also retaliated to Karren Brady’s recent comments, after the West Ham vice-chairman described Spurs’ plans to demolish and rebuild the Olympic stadium as ‘a corporate crime.’
“I want to deal with facts and the original stadium was always going to be demolished.
“We also promised no white elephants and that is far more important and we don’t want any form of government subsidies.
“We are promising one of the most advanced, state-of-the-art stadiums in Europe that will deliver an exceptional spectator experience.
“Fans will be closer to the pitch than at any other comparable size stadium in the UK, while its acoustic design will ensure that noise from spectators remains within the stadium.
“Accusations that would ‘demolish’ £500million of stadium are hugely inaccurate and highly irresponsible and I want to be very clear on this issue.
“Our proposal will retain around £420m worth of the Olympic stadium, and we will re-use or recycle the £80m that will be dismantled with zero landfill.
“It is also important to remember that two thirds of the Olympic stadium, under the original legacy plan, was to be dismantled – it was not designed to be a permanent structure.
“Recent scaremongering conveniently forgets this fact.
“We would increase the current capacity of Crystal Palace by 9,500 to 25,000 and a new four-lane warm-up track and all weather hockey pitch would also be built.
“With these proposals, Crystal Palace would become a reinvigorated dedicated facility, bringing more activity to the area and be available to the athletics community every single day of the year.”
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Levy has done so well for Spurs that i think he deserves our trust and support. Lets all get behind him on the way to Stratford and Glory. COYS
Dont you mean sell our souls to the devil (or maybe some rich oil drenched physco )
Listen mate I understand what you mean I also see Levy's stance but F.F.S.
We would ALL love to see the team/club at the top of the table every year
We would ALL love to see the team/club in champions league every year
We would ALL love to see the big names in Spurs colours
BUT AT WHAT COST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have done OK in the past, we are doing OK in the present, I reckon we will do OK in the future.
We have had big names in the past, we have big names in the present, we will have big names in the future.
Let those so called listed buildings FALL OVER !!! no one has given a shit about them before
Tell English heritage to go find some other mugs to harrass
Tell Haringay council to get their heads out from their arse
Clear the land that we have aquired to date, go back to the drawing boards and rethink with what we have.
Design a new 60/70,000 FOOTBALL stadium ON OUR LAND
Forget all the bullshit hotels/supermarkets etc etc we are a football club not a fashion statement
Someone ask Daniel Levy How feasible would it be to rebuild just the stadium and what is the REAL cost Let the fans worry about transportation logistics (We have been doing it for a while now)
One of the main stumbling blocks is that the planning authorities don't believe that the area can handle such an increase in supporters.
Arsenal had the same problem with the Emirates despite the fact that it's much better connected than WHL and despite the fact that both clubs used to have far bigger crowds in the 50's/60's.
I've worked as an architect for seven years and one of my student projects involved a study of the Emirates proposals while it was still in the planning phase.
With the benefit of professional experience I can see that the Stamford proposal makes so much more sense than the WHL proposal.
Should both fall through, I'd like to see how feasible a stadium in King's Cross would be. There's a big bit of land to the north of the station, that I believe Arsenal once considered. It might be pricey, but you won't find an area with better public transport access.
Also my view of this Karen Brady is that she is intellectually dishonest. She knows that the stadium does not cost 500 million pounds. It is the whole Olympic Stadium site including the infrastructure etc etc that costs that enormous sum of money but yet she tells the whole world of the untruths.
Sell Bale, Van der Vaart, Modric and quadruple ticket prices? All so we can stay in one of the most inaccessible and run-down areas in North London.
'To Dare Is To Do' that's what this club is about isn't it?
Anyway, being from Essex, shouldn't you be a Hammers fan?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/t…
Unless you and SD have a plan to raise the required £450,000,000 I suggest you keep quiet.
When your only riposte is 'your a wanker' you make it pretty clear to anyone reading that you don't have any rational argument. Maybe you should by yourself a book of quotations, I'm sure you'd learn something from the likes of Churchill and Wilde.