taipan
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You can't help but think that Shark Park only has a short term future and sooner or later its going to become units. The stadium footprint is getting smaller and smaller and the northern hill is the only space that could be used to improve the stadium after the current works are complete.
Not quite ,the ET stand will have the wrap around C of E ,which include additional corp facilities,and seating near the Southern End.The Monty Porter stand down the line, can be increased in capacity and height.
The additional new work re hotel/offices, whilst looking very intrusive, is not going to reduce the current capacity.
And who knows what work can be done to increase capacity of the stand attached to the League club.That's what you pay architects to come up with.
Having the Northern Hill is also a long term, option.Hardly panic stations material.
I doubt the Local Council nor the EPA council would agree to the football ground to be made available for units, as the residential development is already maximised, and having the ground in between ,provides open air space for unit owners on both sides, which would not be there ,if further units were built.
Plus a new road would have to be put there for the new units, which adds further to congestion.
Bearing in mind the football ground was a"gift" from the council ,when the dump was filled in ,so as parks and grounds in the Shire are limited in numbers,there is next to zero chance of the ground itself ending up as units.
Any way 50 years form now, with rising sea levels, it might end up being a great surfing spot.