[theo_luddite]

If you put The Gas Club and The Gasworks Car park together there might be enough land to build a 10K stadium and the stuff you need around it, including some limited parking. Either individually, I don't see you building much more than a crown green bowls or a tennis club. Together you've still got the issue of Gasworks Street which is a main route to The McGalphsmiths and businesses on St. Andrews Road running through the middle, not to mention the canal bridge but that's less of a problem. It's not impossible to put something else at one end or the other of any development as an alternative, though you've businesses to negotiate with to do that.

I know the council got what was our Leeds Road ground to build the retail park as part of the deal to build The McGalphsmiths on former ICI land but I don't know what they got out of Fartown. There's still a cricket ground and rugby pitch there, and green land beyond off York Avenue (use unknown). Even if the old stands and terracing have (mostly) been removed and there's a mosque in one corner that I think used to be the cricket pavllion. Pretty sure on the one occasion I played at Fartown for Halifax U18's we changed under the old main stand. It never was the easiest ground to find parking for but it looks like the easiest bit of land for them to go back to if you ask me, and I don't think their fans would argue too hard. Their newish neighbours might though, as there's new houses and shops by the entrance, plus whoever plays there now.