Exclusive: documents show the former minister pushed for the compulsory acquisition of Penrith Paceway for a new stadium to be built in his seat
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Here’s an example of cost benefit analysis done on stadia
“The documents reveal that in November 2021, business cases for the redevelopment of Penrith stadium (on its current site) and Manly’s Brookvale stadium were completed. The Brookvale assessment, released to the upper house under a call for papers, showed a poor benefit-to-cost ratio of just 0.24 (where 1.0 represents break even). The Penrith assessment has not been released.”
This is why the Penrith proposal got scaled back