Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand

[Dicko]

Are car parks under stadium a common thing now? I remember watching the Champions League games back in the day where they always blamed Monaco for having a terrible pitch because of their underground parking. (At least that's how I remembered it! Can't recall the explanation why)

 

[Jordinho]

Are car parks under stadium a common thing now? I remember watching the Champions League games back in the day where they always blamed Monaco for having a terrible pitch because of their underground parking. (At least that's how I remembered it! Can't recall the explanation why)

They're not four stands around a field of grass to put it that way.

This is from Lille, where they stack the two halves on top of each other to use half the stadium for other sports like basketball:

 

[chicken_badge]

I'd be worried about tripping up over the halfway line when it is all put together

 

[Jordinho]

There's always this option as well:

 

[spurs' magna carter]

First I see Barry Scott jump out of a slide on TV and now this, terrific start to the day. After all that speculation it's ended on a damp squid

 

[Papercut]

For the added challenge - the pitch should move during the game.

 

[Jordinho]

I think a complex system of small air vents should be integrated into the pitch to carefully adjust the path of the ball when necessary.

 

[Superhudd]

Wouldn't it matter where the water table is how deep you can go down? The site is fairly close to the Lee twelve-wired bird-of-paradise isn't it.

Yes the water table matters. But should still be explored.. maybe they have with the fact they have decided to put one layer down there under the three stands.

 

[Superhudd]

Are car parks under stadium a common thing now? I remember watching the Champions League games back in the day where they always blamed Monaco for having a terrible pitch because of their underground parking. (At least that's how I remembered it! Can't recall the explanation why)

I always thought the problem for Monaco was water. Very little rain means everyone drinks bottled and what water there is doesn't get wasted on football pitches.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I always thought the problem for Monaco was water. Very little rain means everyone drinks bottled and what water there is doesn't get wasted on football pitches.

Surely they'd use the same desalination technology as the golf courses in the Algarve use?

 

[Baleforce]

its bloody hot there, and carved into a cliff really, not much earth to build down into, beach on the other side

 

[Superhudd]

Surely they'd use the same desalination technology as the golf courses in the Algarve use?

They probably do now. Has the Monaco pitch improved recently. Maybe the rich owner has installed such a facility.

 

[Baleforce]

there were concerns before the arsenal game and I think they have had games postponed this season when the pitch has flooded in heavy rain

 

[We are Tottenham]

For the added challenge - the pitch should move during the game.

Would having a car park under the pitch actually affect the performance on the pitch.
Put it another way...would it be any different from a normal setting and where the bounce and correct drainage do not have any detrimental affect on play..having the right quantities of earth that makes a proper football pitch what it is?

 

[jaysea67]

The basement level proposed at Spurs is beneath the stands rather than under the playing surface.

 

[Kenyan Spur]

The basement level proposed at Spurs is beneath the stands rather than under the playing surface.

That is a pity.
Otherwise we could have someone in the basement running around with a remote control guiding the ball.

 

[chicken_badge]

Don't think you can beat Chelsea's car park behind the goal back in the good ol days

Not sure what happened to it, think they closed it after Jol managed to get a bus in there

 

[We are Tottenham]

No new pictures of the Mega 61000 White Hart Lane yet then ?

 

[Spur of the moment]

No new pictures of the Mega 61000 White Hart Lane yet then ?

Now looking like there will be no increase in capacity. Jaysea posted this above a few days ago:

The application (dated 09/04/2015) for planning permission for the stadium basement is on Haringey’s website.

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=280768

I don’t think there’s anything too exciting to see but the comments I have are:

1. Comparing the new ground floor plan with the original plan from the approved KSS design the size and footprint appears to be very much the same. The changes only appear to be in how the internal space is divided up and used.

2. The application says “It is not proposed to change … the capacity of the stadium that is already consented, nor change the external appearance or the height, scale and mass of the consented stadium”. Of course, that doesn’t rule out future planning applications being submitted that could seek such changes.


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[Gutter Boy]

Now looking like there will be no increase in capacity. Jaysea posted this above a few days ago:

The application (dated 09/04/2015) for planning permission for the stadium basement is on Haringey’s website.

http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=280768

I don’t think there’s anything too exciting to see but the comments I have are:

1. Comparing the new ground floor plan with the original plan from the approved KSS design the size and footprint appears to be very much the same. The changes only appear to be in how the internal space is divided up and used.

2. The application says “It is not proposed to change … the capacity of the stadium that is already consented, nor change the external appearance or the height, scale and mass of the consented stadium”. Of course, that doesn’t rule out future planning applications being submitted that could seek such changes.


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The consent we got is for 58k IIRC, not 56k

IIRC the smaller 'blue Emirates' KSS design came after the planning permission