New Stadium Details And Discussions

[aRTy]

£100 million? Even if spurs did stump up that much it makes no difference if you have the same old shops every 5 yards...£1 bucket shops, Turkish shops, kebab shops etc. As for the community aspect of it.. there is no community round there, it's a shit hole haha. Must say that building seems to be flying up. Is that the college built onto the back/ above the supermarket or is al strictly sainsburys because its bloody high for a shop that flogs veg.

 

[Spur-of-the-moment]

Question, the entrance to the college will open to the north end of the stadium. Does this mean that it won't open till phase 2 is complete?

I think the plan is to have a climbing wall between the door of the college and ground level. It will add an 'adventure' dimension to getting in and out of college.

 

[Lilbaz]

I think the plan is to have a climbing wall between the door of the college and ground level. It will add an 'adventure' dimension to getting in and out of college.

Cool!

 

[worcestersauce]

So you can only have communities in leafy suburbs then is that correct?

 

[arthurgrimsdell]

So you can only have communities in leafy suburbs then is that correct?

So plant more trees.

 

[Real_madyidd]

. As for the community aspect of it.. there is no community round there, it's a shit hole haha. .

It is a shit hole, agreed. How can you say that there is no community though? Of coarse there is.

 

[aRTy]

It is a shit hole, agreed. How can you say that there is no community though? Of coarse there is.

I suppose i class a community as a different thing. I imagine it where you pop in and out of the shops on the high street with maybe the owners/ workers knowing your name and having a chinwag with people you bump into,not just the odd few people who live next door or close by. Tottenham and Haringey in general is such a multi-cultural area that these communities are all divided into their own little clicks. I can't wait to see how it changes up their, hopefully bringing in some decent shops, maybe a marks and sparks (even tho i don't like them), or woolies etc. Even you have to admit there are too many odd little shops. How can you have a "community" when you have the same shop repeated over the whole length of the highstreet, not just at white hart lane end, it's full of £1 bucket shops, turkish general stores, turkish/ afro-carribean barbers. If you took away the major supermarkets along the whole street there really isnt that much there.

Maybe i'm seeing it wrong and can'y wait to see it improved up there. My dad's friend lives in the flats opposite the south stand and wants to move to N15 end even though it's all about to be improved. He's mental, imo of course.

 

[Mister Jez]

I suppose i class a community as a different thing. I imagine it where you pop in and out of the shops on the high street with maybe the owners/ workers knowing your name and having a chinwag with people you bump into,not just the odd few people who live next door or close by. Tottenham and Haringey in general is such a multi-cultural area that these communities are all divided into their own little clicks. I can't wait to see how it changes up their, hopefully bringing in some decent shops, maybe a marks and sparks (even tho i don't like them), or woolies etc. Even you have to admit there are too many odd little shops. How can you have a "community" when you have the same shop repeated over the whole length of the highstreet, not just at white hart lane end, it's full of £1 bucket shops, turkish general stores, turkish/ afro-carribean barbers. If you took away the major supermarkets along the whole street there really isnt that much there.

Maybe i'm seeing it wrong and can'y wait to see it improved up there. My dad's friend lives in the flats opposite the south stand and wants to move to N15 end even though it's all about to be improved. He's mental, imo of course.

That would be a surprise.....

 

[SpurSince57]

I suppose i class a community as a different thing. I imagine it where you pop in and out of the shops on the high street with maybe the owners/ workers knowing your name and having a chinwag with people you bump into,not just the odd few people who live next door or close by. Tottenham and Haringey in general is such a multi-cultural area that these communities are all divided into their own little clicks. I can't wait to see how it changes up their, hopefully bringing in some decent shops, maybe a marks and sparks (even tho i don't like them), or woolies etc. Even you have to admit there are too many odd little shops. How can you have a "community" when you have the same shop repeated over the whole length of the highstreet, not just at white hart lane end, it's full of £1 bucket shops, turkish general stores, turkish/ afro-carribean barbers. If you took away the major supermarkets along the whole street there really isnt that much there.

Maybe i'm seeing it wrong and can'y wait to see it improved up there. My dad's friend lives in the flats opposite the south stand and wants to move to N15 end even though it's all about to be improved. He's mental, imo of course.

Could you let me know where you live so I can write ill-informed tosh about it? Of course there's a community, FFS, and I've been happy to be a part of it since 1976.

Yes, we could do with some 'decent' shops, but we're not going to get them without the people with the money to spend in them . This is what appals me about these cretins putting their oar in. We used to have a Marks, but once Shopping City opened that closed, so did the Woolworths' (don't think we'll see them back, somehow), and a whole lot of small independent shops that gave the place some variety and even a bit of class went too. Then the fuckwits at the council decided to demolish the old Burgess's department store, by then the Co-Op, and replace it with the crappy 'Enterprise Centre' and that supermarket that got torched in the riots. In fact, most of the crummy buildings are the 1960s Lego jobs. The Victorian, Georgian and even older ones are due to get a much-needed facelift.

 

[aRTy]

Could you let me know where you live so I can write ill-informed tosh about it? Of course there's a community, FFS, and I've been happy to be a part of it since 1976.

Yes, we could do with some 'decent' shops, but we're not going to get them without the people with the money to spend in them . This is what appals me about these cretins putting their oar in. We used to have a Marks, but once Shopping City opened that closed, so did the Woolworths' (don't think we'll see them back, somehow), and a whole lot of small independent shops that gave the place some variety and even a bit of class went too. Then the fuckwits at the council decided to demolish the old Burgess's department store, by then the Co-Op, and replace it with the crappy 'Enterprise Centre' and that supermarket that got torched in the riots. In fact, most of the crummy buildings are the 1960s Lego jobs. The Victorian, Georgian and even older ones are due to get a much-needed facelift.

I live in Tottenham aswell, Ok, it might of come out wrong in my wording, I'm more in the middle, down near the iceland - police sation part of the area but hung out with mates who lived in Vicerage road when in primary and spent alot of time in and around the flats down park lane while also going to Northumberland Park as secondary school. I'll admit i might be judging it abit on face value and thinking there isn't much of a community, but just out of interest, what kind of community is there?
Burgess (sp?) and the like were before my time but i do know there was a woolies where peacocks is now (and that they are out of business, atleast with actual shops).

My original post wasn't intended to sit here and slag off your end of Tottenham, it was more intended towards the community group trying to make spurs raise their £475k to £100m. God knows it could really do with that sort of investment and I'm actually hoping with the stadium and the redevelopment that it brings in some more of these more established shops as we have enough shops that are already similar in nature.

 

[SpurSince57]

OK, you're forgiven. I just get pissed off with people coming on here and slagging off the area. Only Tottenham residents are allowed to call it a shithole.

You ask, 'What kind of community is there?' Sure, there are lots of little groups who tend to be separate on the surface, but you can say that of just about everywhere in London. It's what I love about the place. I don't have any problem shooting the shit at the Turkish barber's or the cafes, or in the Turkish shops, or with the other customers down at the greengrocer's and fishmonger's stalls down at Bruce Grove. I find it a sight friendlier than Winchmore Hill, where I was brought up from when I was ten. But it would be idle to pretend it hasn't gone badly downhill in the last 30-odd years.

The 'community group' is a bunch of mad-eyed tossers, self-righteous, self-important and self-appointed. They don't speak for the community, or anyone but themselves, and they seem to want Tottenham to remain as it is. Levy will be perfectly aware of this.

 

[Graysonti]

Not happening with ENIC

 

[tiger666]

Not happening with ENIC

I think I've found a thread from 2004 about Timothee Atouba if you want to bump that with anti-levy too.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Not happening with ENIC

The return of the stadium troll.

 

[camaj]

Things I've heard. Before christmas is a certainty surely, especially if they're 2 months ahead of schedule. I would have though it'd be open before November at the latest. If I hear anything I'll post. Not that it matters directly but it'll be interesting for us who live in the area and go to games.

Opening date is 6th November. Slightly later than I had anticipated, but I knew it had to be before Christmas. Might pop in after the Newcastle game on 10th November

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Someone mentioned new consultants being employed for the stadium in the itk thread - does anyone know who they are?

 

[storts]

Getting pretty excited for the new Sainsbury's now

 

[spud]

Getting pretty excited for the new Sainsbury's now

Is that a hint at something other than the new Sainsbury's?

 

[Mister Jez]

Someone mentioned new consultants being employed for the stadium in the itk thread - does anyone know who they are?

Populous....

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Populous....

Great game!