A question in relation to the Casey Fields ground, is there likely (particularly with more senior/important matches being fixtured there) to be any more undercover areas, or grandstands built in the near future? It's a strange ground/setting - the boutique looking new stand with the glass doors as you enter, yet once you're inside, the seating is minimal, and the view is just paddocks! It's surreal but there isn't anything wrong with it (except when the weather is ice-like and it's raining heavily).
Yes. There will be spectator terraced standing area undercover on the outer side. It should have been built by now, but has been held up pending resolution of the MFC project (which still isn’t resolved it seems). There will also be toilets as part of the development. The cover is to be a waterproof sail type construction, so it’s providing rain and sun protection, but there is no protection from wind – maybe that will come later.
[quote:a74fe6d39b="StatsMan"] It's a strange ground/setting - the boutique looking new stand with the glass doors as you enter, yet once you're inside, the seating is minimal, and the view is just paddocks.[/quote]
You mustn’t have been there for a couple of months. The urban development has started.
East of the ground there is the first stage of a retirement village, and it is an indication of the urban development which will enclose the facility within probably only 5 years.
Not only will there be development all around Casey Fields, but there has been a massive extra area identified for urban expansion. See this map:
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/CA256F310024B628...File/3999-2.pdf
See the word "Cranbourne" and follow a yellow line to the right and down. It stops at the proposed Cranbourne East railway station site. If you continue in that direction and cross a road (grey line) you get to a light grey triangle. That is where Casey Fields is.
That orange area will accommodate potentially another 100,000 people more than what had previously been proposed.
I hope the station actually becomes a reality and not some pie in the sky political promise...
It won't happen overnight...but hopefully sooner than later...
Aint holding my breath though...with Minister Kosky seemingly oblivious to any rail problems in Melbourne...the Casey Fields station seems a long way off
surely you jest :lol:
well...I recall that Eastlink was going to be TOLL FREE....
Was Steve Bracks jesting then??
This might send you down memory lane. :lol:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/23/1032734114830.html
Ah yes...The Minister for Incompetence...Peter Batchelor...what a wonderful addition to Parliament he has been....
His political "speak" was perhaps worse than Steve Bracks...