New Moves On Albion Stadium

[vulture]

So what is the best for a season that we can hope for to play our first game at Falmer?
And what would the date be if we still won but had to go through another enquiry etc?

And also as I am thick on these matters what would happen if Ruth Kelly came back and said no to Falmer but yes to another site?

And last of all what happens if Lewes Lib Dems are voted out next year in the local elections could the new council drop any action straight away.And what is the lewes tory and lewes labour party views on falmer?

Very sorry if these have been answered already but this is dragging on to long and each day the club is losing money
I WILL NEVER f***ing VOTE FOR THOSE fuzzywuzzyfuzzywuzzyfuzzywuzzyfuzzywuzzyS THE LIBDEMS EVER AGAIN

 

[Gritt23]

Only if the government makes a mistake in the permission, otherwise it will be very costly for Lewes, and I don't believe these mediocre local politicians have the guts to destroy their careers by spending vast sums of Lewes council tax payers money constantly tilting at windmills.

Ruth Kelly clearly feels the permission hinges around a few key issues, the Sheepcote transport infrastructure is one, the regeneration benefits is another.

I don't understand the pessimism on this board regarding her wanting to look more deeply into these issues, they are all strong ones for us, we have always built our case for a Falmer stadium around them. For me, Kelly is issuing a firm and final challenge to Lewes to come up with hard, credible evidence to rebut our strong positions on these issues. They will fail, and they will be told to f*** off.

The pessimism comes from continually thinking we have a certain timetable, only to see it get shifted backwards by 12 months.

What costs would they incur if the raised a challenge, and then retracted it before the court date? In that situation, would they have to pay our costs, even though it never actually got to court?

 

[London Irish]

And finally, anybody who may be deficient in the brain cell department and still doesn't believe that LDC are a major contributor to our current financial position, well perhaps you may think differently now. However i still expect to see it written on here and in the papers and on the radio that we cannot keep blaming them. Sorry but we can, we must and we will.

Amen to that

 

[Brixtaan]

NOW will people realise that violence has got to be part of our approach?

At last, someone seeing sense.Just say the word Brov...

 

[Screaming J]

Only if the government makes a mistake in the permission, otherwise it will be very costly for Lewes, and I don't believe these mediocre local politicians have the guts to destroy their careers by spending vast sums of Lewes council tax payers money constantly tilting at windmills.

Ruth Kelly clearly feels the permission hinges around a few key issues, the Sheepcote transport infrastructure is one, the regeneration benefits is another.

I don't understand the pessimism on this board regarding her wanting to look more deeply into these issues, they are all strong ones for us, we have always built our case for a Falmer stadium around them. For me, Kelly is issuing a firm and final challenge to Lewes to come up with hard, credible evidence to rebut our strong positions on these issues. They will fail, and they will be told to f*** off.

My problem is I don't have any confidence in her ability to take decisions. She is more flaky than the average Cadbury's product and her ditheriness is illustrated by the fact that rather than just restrict this latest round of consultation to the issues raised by Lewes she has decided she wants to go deep into the Sheepcote issue. Who is to say that in 6 months time (providing Gordon Brown hasn't seen sense and sacked her by then) she won't decide she wants to look at something else before making a decision?

She has a track record for bottling things - look at all the hard decisions she didn't take when she was Education secretary.

 

[Spiros]

My problem is I don't have any confidence in her ability to take decisions. She is more flaky than the average Cadbury's product and her ditheriness is illustrated by the fact that rather than just restrict this latest round of consultation to the issues raised by Lewes she has decided she wants to go deep into the Sheepcote issue. Who is to say that in 6 months time (providing Gordon Brown hasn't seen sense and sacked her by then) she won't decide she wants to look at something else before making a decision?

She has a track record for bottling things - look at all the hard decisions she didn't take when she was Education secretary.

But there shouldn't really be a decision for her to make. I thought in these cases some more junior minister(s) set out a decision that she will simply rubber-stamp, unless she has her own personal feelings on the matter.

 

[withdeanwombat]

But there shouldn't really be a decision for her to make. I thought in these cases some more junior minister(s) set out a decision that she will simply rubber-stamp, unless she has her own personal feelings on the matter.

Yes,yes.

And there should be an army of lawyers and civil servants making sure the letter of consent doesn't have any mistakes in it for the weasels of LDC to squirm through.

 

[Ned]

BBC South East have just done a 5 minute report on the extension that was very favourable to the club. Showing Sheepcote Valley as a green haven and pointing out it's importance as a nature site as well as pointing to transport issues.

 

[London Irish]

rather than just restrict this latest round of consultation to the issues raised by Lewes she has decided she wants to go deep into the Sheepcote issue.

Well, if her advisers have spotted something there that needs more work and that if left could otherwise later be exploited by a judge, then it is better that we revisit the issue. The permisssion must be watertight and comprehensive this time, we cannot afford to give more get-outs to the Lewes' lawyers.

I'm actually delighted she is focusing on the Sheepcote issue. Lewes' approach is to keep things vague and pretend that there is some other site somewhere in Sussex. Focusing on the one vaguely credible alternative will destroy Lewes' claims.

If the issue remains focused on Falmer v Sheepcote, we will win, it's a slam dunk! Only if the issue goes back to obsessing about the few acknowledged shortcomings of the Falmer site, then that's when I would get nervous.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There is no chance in hell that Sheepcote will ever be the site for the stadium. It is a haven for migrating birds. If the LDC knew anything about planning, then they would realise this would be impossible. But of course, that is not their intention, is it!?

There have been some high profile cases of late......

 

[Pevenseagull]

this is really getting on my tits



that is all

 

[Since1982]

BBC South East have just done a 5 minute report on the extension that was very favourable to the club. Showing Sheepcote Valley as a green haven and pointing out it's importance as a nature site as well as pointing to transport issues.

Agree - for once BBC South East seem to have taken an objective and informed stance. I though Neighbour looked a complete idiot claiming it was a brownfield site when the pictures had just shown something that is clearly a genuinely beautiful location.

 

[moggy]

another arguement about sheepcote:

a while ago, a planning aplication was put in to build a community farm on the site.
that, you could argue is much more earth-friendly than a stadium.
the application was on coarse until someone from friends of the earth informed the council of unusual plants and insects that are indigineous to sheepcote.
on further inspection from the council, they agreed about the wildlife and it was thrown out.

if the council has already rejected plans for a community farm, what hope has a football stadium got?

f*** ALL

 

[Barrel of Fun]

He is right, in that part of Sheepcote Valley is a brownfield site (Landfill), but so is Falmer (Brighton Uni), plus it will not need such an extensive/intrusive transport upgrade!

 

[The Oldman]

Just so no one misses the other thread. According to the BBC Lewes have said that if Ruth Kelly decides that it is Falmer they will not challenge.

Blimey!

 

[The Large One]

Just so no one misses the other thread. According to the BBC Lewes have said that if Ruth Kelly decides that it is Falmer they will not challenge.

Blimey!

Somehow... somehow...

Oh f*** it, my shop opens tomorrow, and my blood pressure has gone spastic as it is.

 

[dougdeep]

Somehow... somehow...

Oh f*** it, my shop opens tomorrow, and my blood pressure has gone spastic as it is.

Really? You had better put the address on here.

 

[Beach Hut]

Is someone opening a new shop tomorrow - where is it and what does it sell ?

 

[The Large One]

Is someone opening a new shop tomorrow - where is it and what does it sell ?

Can you remember the EXACT words you used to describe my step-daughter?

 

[Beach Hut]

Can you remember the EXACT words you used to describe my step-daughter?

I have amnesia