BP Plans

[oafc1955]

This was announced by Luke Rothwell in May…

Any idea as to what he was referring to? 
Apart from ORLFC sharing the facilities have I missed something?

 

Luke Rothwell insists his family remains committed to Oldham Athletic, and has described plans for the use of the ground and land attached as "the biggest thing that's happened to the town" for decades.

 

Details of the exact nature of proposals are being kept under wraps until they have all be agreed and signed off by the relevant parties. Luke Rothwell hopes that will be as early as next week. But the Rothwells have made no secret of their desire to build a community environment in and around Boundary Park.

Edited December 12, 2024 by oafc1955

[Dickie Down]

Pretty much all the hotel capacity in Oldham has disappeared . Plans for that to fill the corner at the corner of the Joe Royle and Jimmy Frizzell stands?Would link onto the gym and the development of the unfinished top tier.

 

This is fairly uninformed speculation.

 

[Gaz_Oafc]

1 hour ago, Dickie Down said:

Pretty much all the hotel capacity in Oldham has disappeared . Plans for that to fill the corner at the corner of the Joe Royle and Jimmy Frizzell stands?Would link onto the gym and the development of the unfinished top tier.

 

This is fairly uninformed speculation.

 

There are plans to nearly double the capacity of the Premier Inn by expanding over the Clayton Green site in the coming months.

 

Would there be enough business to warrant a hotel on BP with a 'budget' option a stones throw away? (Genuine question)

[Shrek]

Netball arena and an alternative education site are the main plans I believe  

[LightDN123]

Would be good to get an update on these plans. One for the end of season. 

[League one forever]

I’d love the main stand to be redeveloped, but that’s probably way down the list when you have an entire floor of a new build not finished. 

[Dave_Og]

13 minutes ago, Shrek said:

Netball arena and an alternative education site are the main plans I believe  

What's one of those?

[disjointed]

20 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

What's one of those?

School of hard knocks? 

[Dickie Down]

2 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

What's one of those?

Maybe NEET provision?(Not in Employment, Education or Training) Increasing amounts of it about, particularly since COVID, and traditional providers struggling to cope.

[Dickie Down]

2 hours ago, Gaz_Oafc said:

There are plans to nearly double the capacity of the Premier Inn by expanding over the Clayton Green site in the coming months.

 

Would there be enough business to warrant a hotel on BP with a 'budget' option a stones throw away? (Genuine question)

Don't honestly know.

 

The footprint of Latics is huge, though, and anyone with the commercial sense and drive of the Rothwell will undoubtedly be working on ideas to  improve and sweat the assets available.

 

Realistically they have to be looking at having purchased an asset which they can improve the value of before selling it on.

 

This is not a criticism of the family at all. If they manage to do that and sell to the right people, they will have done a huge service to the club and the town.

[JumpingJoshLundstram]

Did I hear somewhere we were getting a community 4G? Not sure if that's already happened/been developed or is common knowledge already. 

 

Do remember at the Q&A he seemed to big this message up that it would be something rather substantial ..

[Only Blue]

12 minutes ago, JumpingJoshLundstram said:

Did I hear somewhere we were getting a community 4G? Not sure if that's already happened/been developed or is common knowledge already. 

 

Do remember at the Q&A he seemed to big this message up that it would be something rather substantial ..

I thought the 4g was going to where Little Wembley is and then they were going to hire it out.

 

That's a big development in itself but looking back at the original post it sounds bigger than that or did he just get carried away in hyping it up.

 

[JumpingJoshLundstram]

15 minutes ago, Only Blue said:

I thought the 4g was going to where Little Wembley is and then they were going to hire it out.

 

That's a big development in itself but looking back at the original post it sounds bigger than that or did he just get carried away in hyping it up.

 

 

That's what I assumed, it was something different to the 4G. 

 

Where's that up to? I know they did some work around that area within the last year to improve it. I presume the 4G is still to be installed?

[longtimeblue]

I had it in my head there were going to be some gigs at BP after the Darren Royle pod.

[Bobledgersheart]

24 minutes ago, longtimeblue said:

I had it in my head there were going to be some gigs at BP after the Darren Royle pod.

Arctic Monkeys last week. 

[Ogdenwoodwhittle]

2 hours ago, Bobledgersheart said:

Arctic Monkeys last week. 

Wet Wet (Very) Wet in Rochdale recently!

Edited December 12, 2024 by Ogdenwoodwhittle
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[spanishfly]

13 hours ago, oafc1955 said:

This was announced by Luke Rothwell in May…

Any idea as to what he was referring to? 
Apart from ORLFC sharing the facilities have I missed something?

 

Luke Rothwell insists his family remains committed to Oldham Athletic, and has described plans for the use of the ground and land attached as "the biggest thing that's happened to the town" for decades.

 

Details of the exact nature of proposals are being kept under wraps until they have all be agreed and signed off by the relevant parties. Luke Rothwell hopes that will be as early as next week. But the Rothwells have made no secret of their desire to build a community environment in and around Boundary Park.

The vision was fully outlined, by Darren Royle, in a lengthy article in "The i Paper" in Dec 2023. The following are the most relevant extracts:-

 

 “Clearly we want to focus on winning matches. We want to get the club back into the EFL. And from the business side, you ask what does Oldham the town need? What does it not have?”

 

Royle identified Ormskirk as the template for Oldham to follow. “It was a market town going to ruin until Edge Hill College turned into Edge Hill University. That university higher education economy has been a fantastic boost for Ormskirk. It’s thriving. Oldham doesn’t have that.

 

“Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has a much bigger vision that we are working on together with Oldham Council and our MPs, Angela Raynor, Jim McMahon and Debbie Abrahams. That is all about the economy. Education is the key to that, to increase standards of living and address the brain drain of young people leaving.

“We have not got a higher education economy here and we have a problem with young people not moving into higher education, which means you are stuck. We have some great institutions like the Sixth Form College, Oldham College and other schools, and we have Eton setting up a sixth form college in Oldham. They want to have a chat with the club to understand what our plans are.

 

“We have a plot of land here bigger than the Etihad complex, lots of green space that they wanted to build houses on. We don’t want to do that. We want to build something for the young people of Oldham. The vision is a sports town, with higher education around sport that will bring facilities to life during the week not just the 23 [match] days a year.

 

“That will involve football and rugby. We also have some of the best netball players in the UK coming from Oldham, which is not talked about enough. That’s another sport we have to try to build facilities for and an education pathway. It is the education economy that will underpin the non-match day activity.”

 

The club plans to use the new stand named after Darren’s father, Joe, to house educational facilities capable of hosting 500 students. There are other sites under consideration too that would double the intake. Talks are under way with colleges and universities to deliver the programmes, and the club expects to formally launch the sports town initiative later this month or early in the New Year.

 

“The beauty of the higher education economy is it brings up to 50 per cent of students from outside Greater Manchester, people living and spending in Oldham,” Royle says. “So we are doing this for the benefit of the town as well as the club, driving social value and doing something good.”

[Worcester Owl]

1 hour ago, Ogdenwoodwhittle said:

Wet Wet (Very) Wet in Rochdale recently!

Tears For Fears, regularly in recent years.

[peanuts2]

1 hour ago, Worcester Owl said:

Tears For Fears, regularly in recent years.

The Hurting for at least the last 30 years 

[Shrek]

The mention of Burham does remind me of info I'd been given. It seems he is willing to put funding into the education facilities, been promised already, the club / owners need to chip in. The family have had people on tours trying to get investors. Fella i know felt it was too rich for him

[Dick_Valentine]

On 12/12/2024 at 4:26 PM, JumpingJoshLundstram said:

 

That's what I assumed, it was something different to the 4G. 

 

Where's that up to? I know they did some work around that area within the last year to improve it. I presume the 4G is still to be installed?

Think it’s been shelved or at least put on the back burner due to Chaddy FC getting the £1M grant instead of Latics. 

[andy_b_100]

I was at the Silver Latics get together last week and Frank said something big was going to be announced in the new year. For anyone over 55 get yourself down to the next one it was an excellent afternoon and cost free, if you know any over 55s who spend time alone ots a great way pf meeting new and like minded friends.....