Category: Environmental / Safety Concerns
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March 2025 Update: Rising costs; Toxic Waste; Health and Safety risks to residents?
MARCH 2025 UPDATE: Rising costs; Toxic Waste; Health and Safety risks to residents? Our last update was August 2024 however since then, in September, the news was announced that the plug had been pulled on Casement Park being developed for use in Euro 2028: https://www.irishecho.com/2024/9/reaction-british-government-pull-plug-on-casement-and-belfast-s-euro-dream We now are into early Spring 2025 with Casement Park…
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July 2024 Update – “The Actual True Cost of Building Casement Park”
As far back as 2017 reports had set the cost of building the new Everton stadium at £300M:Construction News Article: Everton FC lines up deal for £300m new stadiumGuardian Article: Liverpool mayor defends city’s £280m loan to Everton for stadium scheme On 20th October 2021 the piling process had begun. However, by January 2023 it…
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Casement Park and the Euros 2028 – Updated Feb 2024
Key Points Summary Casement Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sports ground located in Andersonstown, West Belfast. The ground opened in June 1953 but has not been used for sporting purposes since June 2013. It presently lies derelict. The Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (UCGAA) is proposing the construction of a new…
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Safe Evacuation
The Stockmans Lane Roundabout is NOT a safe evacuation route Casement Park is tightly bounded on three sides by residential accommodation, with only limited exiting otherwise than at the Andersonstown Road frontage. However, it is accepted by all parties that an emergency evacuation scenario in which the Andersonstown Road exits are all closed is reasonably foreseeable. That…
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Casement Park Contamination
Casement Park is a contaminated site. Asbestos containing materials (ACMs) are widely present within the made ground on which the current facility has been constructed. If the site is redeveloped as a new 34,500 capacity stadium, the made ground would be excavated, resulting in disturbance of the ACMs. That disturbance risks the release of asbestos fibres,…
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Contamination
Contamination
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The Stockmans Lane Roundabout is NOT a safe evacuation route
Casement Park is tightly bounded on three sides by residential accommodation, with only limited exiting otherwise than at the Andersonstown Road frontage. However, it is accepted by all parties that an emergency evacuation scenario in which the Andersonstown Road exits are all closed is reasonably foreseeable. That scenario poses tremendous difficulties for the proposed new…
Stadiums Affect People 