Parking at the OS

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Re: Parking at the OS

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I will have 3 spaces minimum available every game in hackney wick (sounds further than it is!)
My work unit is the last row of units that never got knocked down for the stadium so it's pretty much on my work door step. Plenty of room to park and about a 5-7 min walk door to door
So if anyone remembers this and needs to park when we move your more than welcome
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screech wrote:I will have 3 spaces minimum available every game in hackney wick (sounds further than it is!)
My work unit is the last row of units that never got knocked down for the stadium so it's pretty much on my work door step. Plenty of room to park and about a 5-7 min walk door to door
So if anyone remembers this and needs to park when we move your more than welcome
PM sent. :thup:
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There will be 257 car park spaces on match days at the o.s, all other parking is to be regulated with cpz extended, nearby carparks such as west fields, Stratford old centre, Morrison's Stratford, tescos bow and asdas Leyton to have parking restrictions in place, plus pirate carparks to be regulated, these plans are all set out in the planning applications.
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I dont know how they intend to set up parking restrictions, especially at Westfield. Proof of purchase? Oh well, just do some shopping.
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Gavrosh
I have heard somewhere that they plan to have a system to validate parking tickets during events at Westfield, o.k I suppose if you bring along family members to shop while you are at the game, asdas at leyton had parking restrictions in place for the Olympics, and we also had extended cpz, which personally I hope will back in place.
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I thought even shoppers had to pay for parking at Westfield.
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James P wrote:I thought even shoppers had to pay for parking at Westfield.
I'm pretty sure they do, and the cost ramps up after a couple of hours IIRC.
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2-3 hours. a fiver after that 8.
did the casino Saturday i must admit i could get used to that
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mywhufc wrote:2-3 hours. a fiver after that 8.
did the casino Saturday i must admit i could get used to that
That Casino is always rammed on the weekend I can imagine a lot of Hammers will be up for it too, thing is you won't get in with football shirts on!
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The Rebirth wrote:
That Casino is always rammed on the weekend I can imagine a lot of Hammers will be up for it too, thing is you won't get in with football shirts on!
Really? last time I was there, there didnt appear to be any dress code whatsoever.
Track suits were the order of the day.
The place is a complete dump.
I also read recently there had been a few glassings in the bar.
Not been near the place for a good year though.
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mywhufc wrote:2-3 hours. a fiver after that 8.
did the casino Saturday i must admit i could get used to that
Yes,I have already been up there after home games, Sky Bar as well. All very civilised.
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I've been the casino a few times and really like it for it's primary purpose but not sure I'd want it as pre or post match watering hole.
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Mushy is correct that there has been trouble at Aspers for some time now, they have had their alcohol licence revoked, due to a serious assault by door staff on a customer, they have had to use plastic glasses for a number of weeks because of earlier troubles. I am sure the council will be keeping a close eye on the place when the football starts.
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Parking Strategy on page 122 of this

http://planningregister.londonlegacy.co ... -36158.pdf


Basically, they intend to heavily restrict parking options.
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gavrosh wrote: Basically, they intend to heavily restrict parking options.
I'm shocked, truly, I am .
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Reading through the planning register that gavrosh has posted, it says there will be parking restrictions in place within a 30 min walk of the stadium and all car parks near to the stadium will have restrictrions, Westfield will be introducing a validation of parking tickets during events, with a £25 charge for failure to validate. Stratford station main entrance will be for non event entry and exit only, with after event entry introduced via a specified route to the northern ticket hall via a queueing area, there will be a specified route to west field international and queueing area, pudding mill lane will have no entry for trains back to Stratford but a queueing system for west bound trains, hackney wick will also have no entry for trains to Stratford, supporters will be encouraged to walk to west ham.Not sure how you exit the stadium and go to west fields after, or the bus station and if you go to westfields or the bus station after how they plan to stop you using the main entrance for stratford station.
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I would have thought they would want fans spending money in the shops, restaurants and bars etc at Westfield not discourage it.

Park at Westfield with two going football and two going shopping type of thing is also something which could have worked.

Doesn't bother me either way but seems a bit short sighted in terms of who has money to spend.
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Westfield is packed as it is, not sure how many more they could squeeze in...
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The retention plan that ive pasted into the other thread specifically mentions special deals between events at the OS and spending money at Westfield.

There are too car parks in the Olympic Park that are cheaper than Westfield and nearly always empty, at least at the moment. :wink:

Westfield also has the ability to build more car parks if needed. They've got a load of undeveloped land that they had penciled in for a snow dome, but I havent heard about that plan for a good couple of years now.
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For those who think they will be able to park at Westfield, unless you leave someone to spend the afternoon shopping you will have to pay at least £25. Parking tickets will have to be validated during the game (from 10 minutes after kick off to 15 minutes before final whistle I think) otherwise there will be a large charge.

The lack of parking, walk to stadium / station and herding of fans to queue away from Westfield are going to come as a surprise to some fans who complain about a 20 minute walk to Plaistow or East Ham for queue free departure from the Boleyn.
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