Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
The Falmer Antis have learnt nothing. They continue to peddle lies and distortions on their website, even after they have lost!
Read this and explode. Then pause, think where we are now... and enjoy a good, long, last laugh.
" In 2004, the government’s senior planning inspector John Collyer refused planning permission for a football stadium at Falmer. He said there were ‘overwhelming’ objections to it. Both John Prescott and Hazel Blears ignored their inspector’s advice, overturned his decision and granted planning permission. Having taken legal advice, it is now clear that the government is utterly determined to grant planning permission for the stadium despite the acknowledged damage it will do to the landscape and the environment of Falmer Village.
It has undoubtedly become a political decision. Granting planning permission for the stadium goes against long adopted national and local planning policies but we now have to accept that the government will continue to grant planning permission if we continue to challenge. We do not have a limitless stream of money to support a continued fight.
Therefore, reluctantly, we have decided not to challenge the Secretary of State’s decision. It is going to be a very hard future. There can be no doubt that a stadium will have a huge impact on Falmer. Our greatest fear is that once development begins where will it end? The football club have already been investigating a 130 bed hotel development.
Our thanks must go to all our friends and supporters. We would like to especially thank Lewes District Council, the South Downs Society, the CPRE and the South Downs Joint Board, and Rottingdean Parish Council who also fought so hard to save Falmer. "
THOSE LIES IN FULL
1 So, Collyer himself ‘refused’ planning permission, did he? The Inspector actually had the power of decision, not the Secretary of State?
2 And Prescott and Blears merely overturned that man’s ‘decision’, did they? Without any further evaluation or enquiry by any other planning inspectors? Extraordinary!
3 ‘Our greatest fear is that once development begins where will it end?’ Answer: where there’s no planning permission, that’s where. Durr...
4 The club’s evil 130 Bed Hotel Plot gets in one, final appearance. Funny the Nimbys couldn’t quite locate that hotel anywhere in the stadium planning application’s small print, eh?
The moral? Some Nimbys will never learn. They still don’t realise they would have got a lot more sympathy and support by just being honest. They didn’t want the stadium at the Falmer site because... they didn’t want it! They just desperately hoped it might be stuck somewhere else instead. End of.
Were the villagers genuinely descendants of long-established Sussex families going back generations, you might have some sympathy. But since most seem to be just northerners and polyversity lecturers, who cares? They certainly won’t, when their houses sell at inflated prices to genuine Albion fans.
Read this and explode. Then pause, think where we are now... and enjoy a good, long, last laugh.
" In 2004, the government’s senior planning inspector John Collyer refused planning permission for a football stadium at Falmer. He said there were ‘overwhelming’ objections to it. Both John Prescott and Hazel Blears ignored their inspector’s advice, overturned his decision and granted planning permission. Having taken legal advice, it is now clear that the government is utterly determined to grant planning permission for the stadium despite the acknowledged damage it will do to the landscape and the environment of Falmer Village.
It has undoubtedly become a political decision. Granting planning permission for the stadium goes against long adopted national and local planning policies but we now have to accept that the government will continue to grant planning permission if we continue to challenge. We do not have a limitless stream of money to support a continued fight.
Therefore, reluctantly, we have decided not to challenge the Secretary of State’s decision. It is going to be a very hard future. There can be no doubt that a stadium will have a huge impact on Falmer. Our greatest fear is that once development begins where will it end? The football club have already been investigating a 130 bed hotel development.
Our thanks must go to all our friends and supporters. We would like to especially thank Lewes District Council, the South Downs Society, the CPRE and the South Downs Joint Board, and Rottingdean Parish Council who also fought so hard to save Falmer. "
THOSE LIES IN FULL
1 So, Collyer himself ‘refused’ planning permission, did he? The Inspector actually had the power of decision, not the Secretary of State?
2 And Prescott and Blears merely overturned that man’s ‘decision’, did they? Without any further evaluation or enquiry by any other planning inspectors? Extraordinary!
3 ‘Our greatest fear is that once development begins where will it end?’ Answer: where there’s no planning permission, that’s where. Durr...
4 The club’s evil 130 Bed Hotel Plot gets in one, final appearance. Funny the Nimbys couldn’t quite locate that hotel anywhere in the stadium planning application’s small print, eh?
The moral? Some Nimbys will never learn. They still don’t realise they would have got a lot more sympathy and support by just being honest. They didn’t want the stadium at the Falmer site because... they didn’t want it! They just desperately hoped it might be stuck somewhere else instead. End of.
Were the villagers genuinely descendants of long-established Sussex families going back generations, you might have some sympathy. But since most seem to be just northerners and polyversity lecturers, who cares? They certainly won’t, when their houses sell at inflated prices to genuine Albion fans.
