The Photo on the right hand side shows what we will be looking at if the Car park at the New Stadium gets the go ahead on the Holywood Road Belfast . The scenery in the middle shot will be destroyed and replaced with a car park twice the size of the car park pictured on the far left, the picture on the right was taken from Tesco Knocknagoney it shows the site at the fork on the Holywood Road and the Sydenham bypass city bound and the approach to George Best City Airport. we must ask our Belfast City Council to think again and to stop this happening.
They would have to be Mad to rip up this scène, to have it replaced with a park and ride service for a Train Station to accommodate a new stadium what are the planners thinking, We have seen some mistakes made in the past but this is surely the biggest yet how could our MLAs let this happen to our green spaces are they going to leave our children nothing are they going to throw away our green spaces and say it is progress how can it be. No other country in Europe would let this happen, the trees that are now standing on the site would be removed from the Knocknagoney Round About Site that stretches to Inverary Avenue, to destroy hundreds of trees and ruin one of our great wild life habitats.We ask our Councillors are you really going to support such a scheme as this that will bring thousands of cars to an area that is already a bottle neck, to ask the people who elected you to just put up with it. We implore you to look at the streets that will be effected by such a car park
have the residents who live in these homes been ask what they think of a 4000 space car park on their door step, we ask our councillors to think again these are the people who possibly elected you, surely their opinion must count for something or maybe not. Will we see these quiet streets be taken over by cars that cannot get a parking space at the stadium car park. We must ask our councillors to hold a public meeting and give everyone the chance to give their opinion on what will be taking place on their doorsteps. We would also ask the question if they are planning a rail link with a park and ride car park and also a 4000 space car park where will the coach park be? We ask the developers to come clean on all the plans for this site and when they will involve the community in their plans.
This is the scene you see going up the Holywood Road from the Knocknagoney round about it looks very impressive now but what will it look like when it becomes a Car Park ,all our trees would be ripped out only to be replaced by tarmac we must ask the councillors and planners where will all the rain water go when the green is covered over. We already hear UK councils taking residents to court for turning their gardens into drive ways. Research has shown that the more area covered by tarmac and concrete the more the possibility of flooding, the Holywood Road and Parkway already have this problem.We ask our councillors and MLAs to show us the risk assessments they have carried out and their impact studies on traffic flows to the site of the car park we call on our First and Deputy First Minister to call a public inquiry in to the placing of such a car park so close to a major road junction such as the Knocknagoney Round about. It begs the question what would happen if there was a major incident at the Stadium, how would so many cars be evacuated from the site in a short space of time, or would car owners be expected to leave their cars at the site, with a feeder flyover interring the car park site from the Belfast Bangor side of the carriageway how would these cars exit the flyover if a major incident occurred while entering the site. As you can see by our photograph the Holywood Road is used by the offices along the Holywood road to park the employees cars, again we ask the councillors and planners where would these cars use and in what streets would they be pushed on to, we also see from our photograph that the Holywood Road is only two lined how would cars on the approach to the car park ever get access when there is a feeder flyover from the Sydenham By Pass.
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