I’m not the wiser to be honest.
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Does anyone think this could be the site for a new stadium?
In South Bucks, loss-making for club and council, is it 133 acres? (is this accurate?) and close to Slough the largest population in U.K not served by a professional league club.
Wycombe Rebels FC incoming!
This just reads to me as though they’ve had some complaints from the golf club in particular, and are trying to get ahead of them.
The land is under strict covenants, a number of times in the past developers have tried to change it and it has been challenged due to how the land was left in trust.
I cannot see them being able to build a stadium on it, it will be interesting to see if they can even build an academy accomodation on it and change the 18 to 9.
One of the main reasons the golf club is in significant decline is because you cannot book an 18 hole tee time slot in the summer after 3pm because they want to lock the gates at 1915.
Since Padel courts were opened last year, the gates are now not locked until 2215 but they still have not changed the golf booking system.
The reason they are losing money hand over fist on the golf is because they’ve closed off around 20 tee times a day, 7 days a week for the last 3-4 years during the summer months. It’s £27 a round at that time of day.
Even if only half of those were booked with a 2 ball, it is £500 per day, £3500 per week and when the evenings are light enough is the equivalent of £85k per annum in lost revenue, all because they wanted to lock the gate at 1915 a few years ago.
The footfall is there, it’s just you cannot book a bloody time! Rant over…
I think the last sentence points to the objective. At least it is in South Bucks.
I used to play at Farnham in the last 80’s, early 90’s, the best municipal course for miles around, immaculate greens and well kept fairways. The resteraunt area was the pull, wonderfull Full English Breakfasts, that saw it always packed with more tradesman than golfers in there.
Tee off times was an issue back then, you couldn’t pre book,you had to pop a ball in the shoot, when you got there. People would arrive at 5am for a 8 o’clock start.
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Hope so. Only because I predicted they’d move closer to the M25. If it happens I’ll be Skill McGill.
If this is where the new ground could be built, I’m not sure that will help the club. It takes it 11 miles away from the town it’s named after and I don’t think they’ll get much support from Slough
At least they’re committing to getting planning permission first this time round.
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Depends who has the benefit of the covenants. That person or trust is able to release or amend such covenants. Money sometimes talks and Lommy’s got plenty of it!
“a long-term home for the football club in Buckinghamshire”
this needs some fairly urgent clarification
The club (as in the first team) needs to play in High Wycombe, end of story. Move it elsewhere in Bucks you may as well be moving to to Newcastle. Anyone with an iota of understanding about English football knows this.
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Couldn’t agree more. Don’t like the sound of that one little bit.
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Oxford fans calling us North Slough will take a bit of getting used to.
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The chance of any Football Stadium being built on that site, would be a billion to 0ne.
It’s narrow country roads and location make it about as likely as Studley Green would be for a new Stadium.
Plus where would the increase support come from ? Farnham,Gerrard Cross,Egypt, Stoke Poges,Beaconsfield ? Certainly not football hotbeds. Slough maybe a large town, but they have always struggled to get decent crowds even when they’ve been successful.
Reopen the old West Wycombe Railway station and build any new stadium on the Pedestal playing fields and adjacent land.
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In the hands of Dan Rice. Fucking hell.
‘Long-term home for the football club in Buckinghamshire’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Trust have always had their focus on the ownership of the ground.
The question is does an old stadium at the end of a busy industrial estate with poor average attendances, entrance and exit problems, represent the apex of Mr. Lomtadze’s ambition?
28 Jan 2025 Altogether golf course stretches to 131 acres, with the total site covering 204 acres. according to Business Golf News.
I’m no expert but 204 acres seems big enough for a golf facility plus the ‘Long-term home for the football club in Buckinghamshire’
The biggest stadium in the world covers 51 acres in Cambodia. I’m sure Lommy would love to hold the record!
lommy has 6 billion reasons it could happen