General New Stadium Plans - Stratfield Brake

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

It’s only a couple of £ for 11 hours anyway tho! Hardly a deal breaker?

Plus wouldn’t the residential roads have match day restrictions like the streets around the ground have now?

I am generally concerned that the reaction to Stratford Brake hasn’t been better, given it’s basically out of Kidlington and in a fairly open space, but guess that’s to be expected

It is but that still may put some people off after 25 years of free parking at the Kassam. It's a positive, albeit a small one but should ease some of the concerns about parking.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Some more stadium building experience for Thohir:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546423426348650496

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

 

[Wallop]

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‘Can we find a better place’ in Google Translate becomes ‘Not In My Back Yard’

 

[SteMerritt]

How much of a 'Green Lung' does the current Stratfield Brake provide, considering most of it is a sports field? It's not a forest, and aren't the wooded areas going to be protected anyway under the new development?

There is a serious point with regards traffic pollution in Oxford to be made, just not sure that this is it.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

How much of a 'Green Lung' does the current Stratfield Brake provide, considering most of it is a sports field? It's not a forest, and aren't the wooded areas going to be protected anyway under the new development?

There is a serious point with regards traffic pollution in Oxford to be made, just not sure that this is it.

Exactly, the O2 producing capabilities of Stratfield Brake, especially the part earmarked for the stadium would be negligible if any at all.

We're not looking to build a coal burning power station there.

 

[bashamwonderland]

Exactly, the O2 producing capabilities of Stratfield Brake, especially the part earmarked for the stadium would be negligible if any at all.

We're not looking to build a coal burning power station there.

Let's not rule anything out here.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

So much more than just a 'commercial entity'

 

[Wallop]

Let's not rule anything out here.

Could we propose some fracking as well?

 

[chuckbert]

Could we propose some fracking as well?

And a mink farm.

 

[Wallop]

Public executions Taliban style?

 

[chuckbert]

Public executions Taliban style?

You pretending to be EY?

 

[Marked Ox]

I think we should start down the green energy route as well by having one of Rolls Royce's small modular nuclear reactors. I'm sure they'll be in favour of that.

 

[ljs]

How much of a 'Green Lung' does the current Stratfield Brake provide, considering most of it is a sports field? It's not a forest, and aren't the wooded areas going to be protected anyway under the new development?

There is a serious point with regards traffic pollution in Oxford to be made, just not sure that this is it.

Surely the new stadium will reduce car travel from the current usage compared to going to the Kassam... so its better air pollution wise.

 

[Malc]

If I lived within 20 miles of SB I would attend matches using my electric bike. But first the council(s) would have to make safe, separate bike lanes.
That is not meant a a joke. That is what I do here in the Netherlands.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

The bike lanes around there now actually are OK, the Greens have had a fair bit of success in that regard. Plenty of bike parking at Ox Parkway and hopefully more at the Stadium.

 

[Wallop]

If I lived within 20 miles of SB I would attend matches using my electric bike. But first the council(s) would have to make safe, separate bike lanes.
That is not meant a a joke. That is what I do here in the Netherlands.

Following the Dutch model, the Council could also provide some Cannabis cafes for when the match situations get too stressful. The club could ensure it only signs 'cloggers'.

 

[AbsoluteZero]

'Developments like this make Stratfield Brake even more vital as public green space'. I read this first to mean Friends of Stratfield Brake were endorsing the football stadium which by definition has a large patch of green grass right in the middle of it which the public then visit and enjoy every 14 days or so. It also ticks the natural regeneration box as the grass is left to heal itself over the Summer months.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

It's things like this, and the many, many other projects OU in the Community do that make me really angry when those opposing the stadium say OUFC are a "corporate entity" who want to "vandalise the greenbelt". OUFC are a community asset and so much more than simply a football club.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1548593353859678208

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

A call to arms from FoSB: