Wyness Delighted With Commonwealth Success

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On Thursday it was confirmed that Birmingham's bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth games had been a success and with Aston Villa playing a part in the plans, Chief Executive...


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It is great how Birmingham have woken from its slumber and re-invented itself, top re-developments ongoing, fantastic restaurants and bars etc... really is back on the map. This should help raise awareness even more. Now the council and others need to solve the problem of the number of homeless on the streets, if they can help fund the games they can sure as heck find these folks somewhere warm and safe to sleep.

 
Yes i agree , the number of people sleeping rough over the last year has increased enormously over the last 2 years or so. Surely people shouldn't have to camp in subways in this day and age.

 
Yes, great news for the city, but as always, I'm left with the feeling of how unimportant it really is when you see the ever-increasing poverty and dramatically rising use of food banks and homelessness. All that will happen is that the 'undesirables' will bee hustled along out of the media spotlight when the games come to town.
 
The Fear - 23/12/2017 07:28

It is great how Birmingham have woken from its slumber and re-invented itself, top re-developments ongoing, fantastic restaurants and bars etc... really is back on the map. This should help raise awareness even more. Now the council and others need to solve the problem of the number of homeless on the streets, if they can help fund the games they can sure as heck find these folks somewhere warm and safe to sleep.
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Homelessness really bothers me. £50bn for Brexit is fine but a few hundred grand to have a homeless shelter is impossible to find. It disgraces all of us that one of us has to sleep on the streets.
 
And the only sport I’m really interested in will be hosted in London. Why does Derby have a velodrome and not Birmingham?! We’ve only just recently opened a 50m pool in Selly Oak (Probably afforded by the extortionate Uni fees) and yet we’re a ‘City of Sport’. I’m glad we’ve got it as it’ll be good for Brum, I was in Glasgow whilst their games were on and there was a good buzz about the place. But if we’re gonna do it once, we might as well do it properly and build a velodrome, not give one of the main events to London.
 
I'm wondering about the upgrade at the Alexander Stadium at Perry Barr..... how many seats will it have once completed?

I'm also being lead to wonder what it will be used for when not being used for athletics once the games are over?...................

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I'm wondering about the upgrade at the Alexander Stadium at Perry Barr..... how many seats will it have once completed?

I'm also being lead to wonder what it will be used for when not being used for athletics once the games are over?...................

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Don’t be daft, why would they play their home games in Perry Barr the original home of Villa? They used to be known as small Heath, that’ll never happen even without the plans they have for it after the games. It’s going to be the new home of British athletics, it’ll be the biggest permanent athletics stadium in the country and will host all the national and international events thereafter. I imagine that part of Brum will be transformed much like in Manchester.
 
BodyButter - 23/12/2017 11:37

The Fear - 23/12/2017 07:28

It is great how Birmingham have woken from its slumber and re-invented itself, top re-developments ongoing, fantastic restaurants and bars etc... really is back on the map. This should help raise awareness even more. Now the council and others need to solve the problem of the number of homeless on the streets, if they can help fund the games they can sure as heck find these folks somewhere warm and safe to sleep.
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Homelessness really bothers me. £50bn for Brexit is fine but a few hundred grand to have a homeless shelter is impossible to find. It disgraces all of us that one of us has to sleep on the streets.
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I despise homelessness but it's not as simple as giving them a roof. Most homeless have deep personal problems such as childhood abuse and drugs most of the time both. Homeless people aren't like Dogs who you can just put in a building and they stay there. The scourge of homelessness has NEVER EVER been tackled in Britain. It will involve heavy financial investment and human resources structure to solve it. It's really hard to help a person who isn't ready or capable or too messed up to help themselves.

War needs to be declared on this sort of thing and it will take far more than a few hundred grand and a temporary roof to solve it.
 
The only part of Manchester they’ve changed is where their training ground now stands. The stadium (Still council owned), the velodrome (Now the Home of British cycling) etc. was all built for the games.
 
A. Alex. 40k but 20k will be temporary. It will be a 20k athletics stadium after

B. Villa. I wonder if the North Stand development is part of this. They said tge other week plans had been submitted to the council. The council do the Commonwealth, Villa Park will be needed for rugby and some other stuff. They said the development will "not just be about football and there is nothing else like it in this country" and they will need Athletes Village and that is Xia's business.

2 and 2 and all that
 
It’ll be 25,000 after. Basically what they should’ve done with the Olympic Stadium in London instead of trying to make it into a multi purpose venue (And wasting loads more public money) for which it won’t be used for anyway. It may of had the World Athletics Championships this year but how many other big athletics events is it going to hold? That and the Olympics are as big as it gets and it won’t get those again for a long time or even ever. Should’ve just been converted to a football stadium like Man City or downsized for athletics like what’ll be happening at the Alexander. I imagine one day West Ham will completely knock it down like Juve did with the Delle Alpi or completely reconfigure it like Man City or Stuttgart.
 
VillaTomB38 - 24/12/2017 00:55

The only part of Manchester they’ve changed is where their training ground now stands. The stadium (Still council owned), the velodrome (Now the Home of British cycling) etc. was all built for the games.
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They actually bought the stadium soon after it was converted for football.

There has also been a lot of regeneration of housing in the area and I'm led to believe they also played a big part in that.
 
If you search Etihad Stadium on google and open the wiki page, it’ll tell you Manchester City Council own the stadium.
 
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