The better the response, the more useful will be the data.

City fans are invited to complete the survey here.

The Question and Answer session with Stuart will be preceded by a short BCST business meeting, in order to discuss a minor rule change. The Agenda will be circulated to Trust members in due course. All City fans are very welcome to attend the Fans Forum.

The project will recruit and train a team of volunteers who will collect the stories and memories of the community who have lived around the stadium in the last 50 years. The work will lead to the creation of an exhibition in the ‘bantamspast museum’ based at the club, a resource pack for schools and a series of events to further publicise the work that has been carried out.

Trust Chair Alan Carling said 'This is not the best time of year to ask fans to come out in a show of support, but I hope we can make our presence felt. It is important that Bradford City is seen as part of the local civic fabric, and this gives us a good opportunity to get the message across'.

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The information from the OSV Feasibility Study nevertheless provides more questions than answers about the desirability of current proposals. The cheaper of the two options under consideration is estimated to cost £57m., and involves a renovation of the existing Odsal Stadium. This would not be an all-seater stadium, and so is not suitable for ground-sharing with Bradford City. It is not clear if the Bulls would have to move from Odsal while this renovation took place. The estimated costs of this option have grown by around £12m. over the last year or so. A swimming pool with public access is part of this plan–replacing the facilities at the Richard Dunn Centre–but it is not yet clear what other facilities are going to be made available to the general public in the OSV complex as part of either option.

The more expensive option, costed at no less than £75m., involves a more radical reconstruction of the Odsal site. The bowl of the existing stadium will be used to take land-fill from levelling the rest of the site. A new all-seater stadium with a capacity of 18,000 will be built from scratch, with a playing surface raised 15 metres above the level of the current Odsal pitch. This is apparently the Council Officers’ preferred option going into the meeting on June 2, and it only makes sense on the assumption that Bradford City will move up to Odsal to share the new ground with the Bradford Bulls. The new stadium is however smaller than the existing stadium at Valley Parade, with less than three-quarters of the capacity. The Bulls would also have to move out of Odsal and share the ground with the Bantams at Valley Parade for one or more playing seasons while the new stadium is under construction. The two clubs would then move up to Odsal together, leaving behind Valley Parade as a relic.