Horsham FC - Council turn Ground Application Down - Help needed

[sullyshuffle]

Here we go...another local club in danger of disappearing due to the local nimbys...the local paper has been receiving letters from the nimbys discussing the problem with football hooligans, noise, traffic and the Sex Pistols concert that would be held there!
Now if only they realised, that having a football club on their doorstep was better than houses, waste incinerators,etc.
They need help and support from all the football fans in the county.
I am sure any suggestions/assistance/letters to the Council would be more than welcome.
As we have been through this, support to another club in need is required.

http://goatzoneforum.yuku.com/topic/1864?page=1

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Wow shocked by this, buying land for over £2 million and then the planning getting quashed.

Football ground plans rejected - Lewes Today


Where does that leave them, they are groundsharing at Worthing for two years without a home, could be fatal.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Where does that leave them, they are groundsharing at Worthing for two years without a home, could be fatal.

Most do not make it out of Worthing alive. Two years would be quite a good innings.

Sorry to hear that Sully and good luck with the fight. Lobbying the local MP would be a start, but I am sure that has already been done. Difficult to convince people that a football club is not the root of all evils. I shall get my Horsham District friends to write some letters.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Most do not make it out of Worthing alive. Two years would be quite a good innings.

Sorry to hear that Sully and good luck with the fight. Lobbying the local MP would be a start, but I am sure that has already been done. Difficult to convince people that a football club is not the root of all evils. I shall get my Horsham District friends to write some letters.

"Inevitably there will be clashes between residents and football supporters," quote from the planning meeting and "We don't want to create a situation where we are putting the residents in conflict with another set of residents in the town."

What are they expecting riots! They played Swansea in the FA cup last year and the last I looked Horsham was still intact.

Sound like the locals are pretty rough, I feel sorry for Frank, a regular at the cricket with his dog Sophie, I wonder how ill advised it was to sell your ground buy land and then expect to get planning for your new stadia.

 

[algie]

Most do not make it out of Worthing alive. Two years would be quite a good innings.

Sorry to hear that Sully and good luck with the fight. Lobbying the local MP would be a start, but I am sure that has already been done. Difficult to convince people that a football club is not the root of all evils.

I shall get my Horsham District friends to write some letters.

NSC very own super fan

 

[Barrel of Fun]

NSC very own super fan

Did I forget to mention the Brighton/Horsham scarves I am having made?

 

[Slough Seagull]

Here we go...another local club in danger of disappearing due to the local nimbys...the local paper has been receiving letters from the nimbys discussing the problem with football hooligans, noise, traffic and the Sex Pistols concert that would be held there!
Now if only they realised, that having a football club on their doorstep was better than houses, waste incinerators,etc.
They need help and support from all the football fans in the county.
I am sure any suggestions/assistance/letters to the Council would be more than welcome.
As we have been through this, support to another club in need is required.

http://goatzoneforum.yuku.com/topic/1864?page=1

we had the same arguements used against Slough Town in their quest for a new ground and Slough is a fuckin shithole.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Did I forget to mention the Brighton/Horsham scarves I am having made?

Whens the fans united day at woodside road, I'm free on the 22nd for the Eastbourne game get knitting

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Knowing that area of Horsham well, I was amazed when I heard HFC had bought the old SunAlliance Social Club grounds. It is in the middle of an established residential area so was always going to be a big gamble in trying to get planning permission. Actually buying the ground before having permission was a desperate act.

Wasn't the main reason they went for this site because the original plans for a ground near Southwater (a much more suitable location) didn't materialise?

I really hope that they find somewhere suitable but anyone who thought this site would be a realistic prospect was kidding themselves.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I live in Horsham District and cannot believe that the football club ever thought they would get planning permission for this development. As TDCH has said, the Hornbrook Club is in the middle of a residential area.

 

[fork me]

"5.53pm - First objector Mr Geoff Adams pleads with the council to reject the plans: "Your decision tonight will affect our lives, and those of our children, for many years," he says."

At least someones "thinking of the children".

But what about the one's in Mile Oak?

On a more serious note, this is bollocks. Hope there's some way they can get this overturned