Regeneration Experts Warn of Maze “Millennium Dome Disaster”
Regeneration & Renewal, the leading magazine for the UK regeneration sector, has echoed StadiumForBelfast warnings that the proposed Maze stadium could be a white elephant comparable to the ‘financially disastrous’ Millennium Dome. While planning consultants were reluctant to talk to the magazine on the record, in private they have confirmed the serious fundamental problems that exist around the Maze stadium plans. Just one of the major flaws in the plans is the fact that the stadium will be in the “middle of nowhere” and “the local population simply cannot support the planned leisure facilities during the stadium’s quiet periods.”
In a press release from Belfast City Council, Councillor Bob Stoker called on the government to pay attention to the field experts, saying “huge investment is required in our infrastructure, hospitals and other vital areas, so why is [the government] planning to spend this amount of money on a sports stadium, especially when professionals are telling them the location goes against all the advice from professionals and current thinking in the field. [sic]”