General Wolves News

[MARKakaJIM]

The university land ends at what used to be the Feathers which is some faculty building now. However, if we shut Jack Hayward way after the ASDA for building works there would be access issues for the University which they would have to be consulted about I guess.

There's no need for any vehicular access to the building that was formerly The Feathers, the issue would be the turning just before it that goes into the car park between the larger University buildings behind, unless they could form a new entrance into that car park from Stafford Road then you'd have to share access along Jack Hayward Way to that point or close the car park throughout construction.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Yes - it was that road I was thinking of. Can’t see an easy way round it as turning in Off Stafford Road would cause some traffic issues especially at peak times.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I would shut molineux st off from jack Hayward way heading into the town apart from university access

The access to the deanery whilst unfortunate shouldnt be a show stopper. Looking at that image it does look a much tighter footprint than I remember, will be fun logistically but nothing too bad for a city centre

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Also looks better logistically to start on the South bank and work back

 

[MARKakaJIM]

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I would shut molineux st off from jack Hayward way heading into the town apart from university access

The access to the deanery whilst unfortunate shouldnt be a show stopper. Looking at that image it does look a much tighter footprint than I remember, will be fun logistically but nothing too bad for a city centre

It's not that simple though as shutting the road only really benefits the construction if the contractor is allowed to take that road within their site area, they don't really get that benefit if you're still having to allow a 3rd party regular access through it. We've had to do similar things with schools in the past but there it's a lot more straight forward because school times are more rigid and you can quite easily restrict your deliveries at peak school times and then tell the school they have no vehicular access through the middle of the day. It's going to be a lot more fluid with University traffic as people will come and go all day long meaning you have to leave that route open at all times and so you don't gain any usable site area in having the road closed.

Might be easier to just rip out the existing retaining walls through the Steve Bull car park so you can access the full length of the site from the Northern end, leave Molineux Street as it is and just building everything from the South Bank end out.

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

Redwings Lodge will be less than ecstatic at the news though!

Doubt it will be the same market place.
Red wings is cheap as fuck.
Molineux will probably be dearer maybe competing with the hotel the team stays in pre match

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

This is like a busmans and holiday.

Shut the road off to traffic other than site and university staff access, use the road for unloading from with restricted loading times that the university are unable to use the road for say 1/2 hours a pop.

Advantage of loading outside site and not having to maintain times for access university staff etc

 

[Tony Towner]

We need a nerdy architect/civil engineering/planner thread [emoji2]

 

[Keef]

I'd read that more than the cricket,rugby and cybertosis threads

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Market factors and all that, I remember the E&S getting their knickers in a twist about Hilton building on the old Fox site, I dont think they realised that Hampton by Hilton is a somewhat more budget chain.

They keep on mentioning the Univeristy, but I thought Morgan got rid of their interest in the immediate land surrounding the ground.

What happened to the Fox? Was my local for many years, and worked in there too. I think it was still open when I left Wolves in 2005.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

1 too many suicides and they knocked it down. Fox hotel that is, not the pub...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Got knocked down about 7 years ago.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news...lverhampton-deathtrap-fox-hotel-to-pay-19000/

Was not in a good state...

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

For the fox pub (Penn road) well it was an Indian, not sure if it's anything now. My mate was the last gaffer, the chap who owned it was taking all the mo ey out of it - shame really

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

1 too many suicides and they knocked it down. Fox hotel that is, not the pub...

Sorry, I meant the pub. The one next to the ground. Is it still there?

 

[Tony Towner]

Sorry, I meant the pub. The one next to the ground. Is it still there?

Nope, became the Wanderer. Did ok on match days empty any other time and closed about 5 years ago. Feathers went at a similar time

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Nope, became the Wanderer. Did ok on match days empty any other time and closed about 5 years ago. Feathers went at a similar time

Thanks. Feathers too? Both could/should have survived, but student drinking is not what it was and the end of tied pubs was having the opposite effect to the intended one.

 

[Kenny]

Feathers is now a Uni office building

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

By the end the Wanderer was bloody horrible. A genuinely disgraceful pub.

The Feathers always was what it was, rough around the edges but ok, too small really though for matchday.

 

[Kenny]

Nope, became the Wanderer. Did ok on match days empty any other time and closed about 5 years ago. Feathers went at a similar time

The fuss when we purchased it and knocked it down was if we did whilst it was full. It was a stinking hole of a pub the last time I went in it. I don't think any of the pubs around Molineux (Wanderer, Feathers or what was called the Goal Post) did anything to attract the students in and they all buggered off into town. The Royal London was the main one before the refurb (although they still do a lot of student deals)

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

I caught the last year of the Molineux Hotel and used the Fox for many years. Landlord could be a touch contrary otherwise it would probably have been much busier.