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This was taken from the Aberdeen City Council web site. It has a lot of detail, particularly about transport arrangements.

 

Plans by Aberdeen Football Club to build a 21,000-seater stadium on land near Loirston Loch off Wellington Road have won the backing of Aberdeen city councillors.

 

The Full Council voted 23 votes to 17 in favour of a willingness to approve the planning application for the stadium, for associated car parking, landscaping and access arrangements to the site, and to notify Scottish Ministers for their consideration.

 

The scheme includes a legal agreement with the Dons to secure funding and full implementation of special transport and parking measures, a planning gain contribution, and the extension of the development's public plaza if adjacent land is developed as a new community in the future.

 

Land west of Wellington Road will accommodate the 39.5-acre development, at the northern end of Loirston Loch and south of the Souterhead Road roundabout.

 

Enterprise, Planning and Infrastructure convener Councillor Kate Dean said: "This is a major opportunity for the city to show proudly that we are really in business. Securing the stadium within the city boundary will bring significant economic benefits. I am so impressed by the design of the stadium, which fits well into the site and which will create a wonderful landmark development at this important gateway into the city for many years to come."

 

Enterprise Planning and Infrastructure director Gordon McIntosh added: "This will be a modern, top-quality sports and leisure venue, which will be a credit to the city and an asset to be enjoyed by thousands of local people from across Aberdeen and the North-east and the thousands who will visit from other parts of Scotland, the rest of the UK and Europe. I believe it will be emblematic of Aberdeen's ambition to maintain and enhance its status as a city – a city which is not afraid to display its confidence in the future."

 

The sports and leisure stadium – measuring 195 metres by 160 metres, and reaching 24 metres in height – will feature a 1,000-capacity home supporters' bar, commercial space, changing rooms, training facilities, a gymnasium, offices, an Aberdeen FC shop and museum, a classroom and a café.

 

The pitch will be orientated east-west, with stands completely encircling it. The stadium will be of a standard to host international football and rugby matches, and concerts and events. A cantilevered roof will cover all the seating.

 

Glass curtain walling, polished granite, red and white cladding and grey brick will all be part of the energy-efficient structure, which will feature a soft red glow at night at the top of each elevation. The Dons' club badge will be placed on the SE and NW corners.

 

The south main stand will house the club and hospitality facilities, including offices, boardroom, changing rooms, hospitality and function suites, and 26 hospitality boxes for up to 14 people each. The suites and boxes will be hired out for weddings, conferences, meetings and other events on non-match days. There will be 5,000 square metres of community and commercial space.

 

The supporters' bar will be in the NW corner, open before and after matches and available for hire. Police and stewards' facilities will be in the NE corner. The main entrance, shop, museum, café, ticket office, gym, club offices and classroom will be in the SW corner.

 

Parking space for 1,400 cars will be created, mainly to the north, south and west of the site, with 520 of the spaces allocated to corporate fans, 140 for club directors, players, staff and officials, visiting clubs and the media, and the remaining 710 for fans. The football club wants parking space to be pre-booked or allocated, with preference given to high-occupancy vehicles, and aims to set up a car-share scheme.

 

Parking space for up to 81 coaches for away supporters will be in the east, with parking space for 22 home fans' coaches to the north.

 

Disabled access and dedicated parking will be provided at the stadium, with space for more than 150 wheelchairs. Parking space for 60 cycles will also be provided in two places near the main entrance and on the north side of the stadium.

 

Vehicle and pedestrian accesses will be made off Wellington Road and Wellington Circle, with a third pedestrian access from Redmoss Road along the existing right-of-way. A new footway/cycleway will be built on the west side of Wellington Road from the site access north to Souterhead roundabout. A pedestrian concourse will surround the stadium, ringed by a new road.

 

Loirston Loch will be retained in its entirety, surrounded by a protected zone at least 30 metres wide to ensure minimal disturbance. The landscaped area around the loch will be 40 to 100 metres wide, retaining as much existing natural vegetation as possible.

 

Parking areas will be screened by new landscaping, and extensive hedging with native species is planned for much of the site perimeter. Tree-lined avenues will be created along the pedestrian walkways and to separate the parking areas. A memorial garden will also be created, with Pittodrie Stadium's old Merkland Road entrance gates as the centrepiece. All told, 432 trees, 2,000 metres of hedge, 12,000 square metres of shrubs and plants, and 10,000 square metres of grass will be planted.

 

The central plank of the Dons' transport strategy will be large-scale bus links between the stadium and the city centre, co-ordinated by operator First. There will be up to 80 buses laid on on match days, and as many as 120 for special events like Old Firm ties and European match nights, to ferry fans to and from five places, including College Street, Shiprow, Rose Street, and the Bridge of Don and Kingswells park-and-ride sites, with services running from 1.30pm on match days.

 

A controlled parking zone is planned to protect nearby residential areas within 30 minutes' walk of the stadium from being swamped by fans' cars, with permits issued to residents in the zone on match and event days and with the club fully funding the scheme, including enforcement. Most of Cove and Altens will be covered, along with Nigg, Redmoss Road and south Kincorth.

 

Looks like parking near the stadium won't be possible.

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This was taken from the Aberdeen City Council web site. It has a lot of detail, particularly about transport arrangements.

 

 

 

Looks like parking near the stadium won't be possible.

Always going to be the case though. Club moved forward with bus plans which is excellent.

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Could be a problem for anyone driving from the south. It appears they would have to drive past the ground into the city to catch a bus. Not an ideal situation.

 

Sure I heard plans about a park and ride in Portlethen or something, over and above the new stadium plan. You could potentially come up the A90 then park your car there and get the shuttle bus to stadium (presuming there will be one of course).

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f**k sake, some folk will moan at anything. that was a positive article and yet still folk are fixated on the 1 slight negative. thats 710 more spaces than pittodrie offers.

 

what stadia do you know that has a car park?

 

cardiff city stadium is built on a massive retail park but you arent allowed to use the car park if your going to the football on match days.

 

is it ever so slightly inconvenient? yes. is it deal breaking? f**k no. jump on the 3 or the 23 and walk 5-10 mins from the cove/charleston terminus.

 

im also sure that given time they will re-open the park and ride behind macro which will take you right to the stadium.

 

afc have obviously worked very hard to get this deal into the position it is now where every base seems to have been covered and they are even keeping our heritage of the club with the memorial. Everything cited there gives me great reason to be happy about the direction the club is trying to go.

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f**k sake, some folk will moan at anything. that was a positive article and yet still folk are fixated on the 1 slight negative. thats 710 more spaces than pittodrie offers.

 

what stadia do you know that has a car park?

 

cardiff city stadium is built on a massive retail park but you arent allowed to use the car park if your going to the football on match days.

 

is it ever so slightly inconvenient? yes. is it deal breaking? f**k no. jump on the 3 or the 23 and walk 5-10 mins from the cove/charleston terminus.

 

im also sure that given time they will re-open the park and ride behind macro which will take you right to the stadium.

 

afc have obviously worked very hard to get this deal into the position it is now where every base seems to have been covered and they are even keeping our heritage of the club with the memorial. Everything cited there gives me great reason to be happy about the direction the club is trying to go.

The Ricoh and the Reebok for starters.

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A controlled parking zone is planned to protect nearby residential areas within 30 minutes' walk of the stadium from being swamped by fans' cars, with permits issued to residents in the zone on match and event days and with the club fully funding the scheme, including enforcement. Most of Cove and Altens will be covered, along with Nigg, Redmoss Road and south Kincorth.

Why would there need to be residents parking controls in Altens? There's no residents, and tons of available space for on street parking :dontknow:

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are they relatively new stadia?

 

I presume you're joking, but obviously.

 

 

FS,

 

the left handside of Cove is known as altens, ie: the mix of council and private hooses at the back o the Thistle

Ah sorry, thought they meant the industrial bitty, should be fine then.

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Sure I heard plans about a park and ride in Portlethen or something, over and above the new stadium plan. You could potentially come up the A90 then park your car there and get the shuttle bus to stadium (presuming there will be one of course).

 

 

Oooh that has serious trouble potential cos it'd be a mix of home & away fans sharing buses unless the police were there to segregate.

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are cove rangers still getting a wee stadium built next door ?

Yes. As far as I'm aware.

 

Still not sure what to think of the whole thing.

 

As for the supporters bar...1000 capacity aye?

That'll be good if they can organise it right.

If they can't, and everyone is standing queueing for pints longer than drinking them, then that'll be nae eess obviously.

Has to be instantaneous.

A bit like the T in the park set up or something.

Tokens or tickets or something.

Nae f**cking aboot wi' change. Which aboot taks aboot 10 times as lang as it dis jist to hand oer a voucher and get a pint.

Machines dishing tickets oot.

Could buy 4 at a time or something if ye though that was how many pints you were haeing.

Or 12 if wi' a couple o mates.

Or bu heaps mair and mak' sure they remain valid for all future games.

 

Nae exactly hard to dee.

But I'd have my doubts whether they could get it set up right.

 

Da ken.

Jist thinking out loud.

 

Course, might be easy enoguh to get a pint onywie.

Might be nae c unt air.

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Yes. As far as I'm aware.

 

Still not sure what to think of the whole thing.

 

As for the supporters bar...1000 capacity aye?

That'll be good if they can organise it right.

If they can't, and everyone is standing queueing for pints longer than drinking them, then that'll be nae eess obviously.

Has to be instantaneous.

A bit like the T in the park set up or something.

Tokens or tickets or something.

Nae f**cking aboot wi' change. Which aboot taks aboot 10 times as lang as it dis jist to hand oer a voucher and get a pint.

Machines dishing tickets oot.

Could buy 4 at a time or something if ye though that was how many pints you were haeing.

Or 12 if wi' a couple o mates.

Or bu heaps mair and mak' sure they remain valid for all future games.

 

Nae exactly hard to dee.

But I'd have my doubts whether they could get it set up right.

 

Da ken.

Jist thinking out loud.

 

Course, might be easy enoguh to get a pint onywie.

Might be nae c unt air.

 

In Munich you had to buy a card and put credit on it to buy beers and food

 

Ive still got mine with two f'ucking euros on it :banghead:

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