New Stadium 'scheduled' to start being being built this year!

[Dave the OAP]

detailed planning permission takes time and it was only the outline permission that was granted a little while ago>

anyway i think the club should sue ldc for the extra it will cost to build after there failed appeal

outline Planning Permission? Really.......ed, is he talking rubbish?

Sue LDC? How does that work then? You would sue a body that has every legal right to challenge a decision made by the secretary of state?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I sincerely hope that the club are "actively seeking" investors who could put a whole lot of money up for Falmer.

I confidently expect people to be AMAZED when they find out how the investment package is being put together.

The gloom-merchants will be eating their words.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

outline Planning Permission? Really.......ed, is he talking rubbish?

Yes. He is talking rubbish.

The stadium has full planning permission.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Yes. He is talking rubbish.

the stadium has full planning permission.

ah.Mr Steward sir...............I shall be standing up in J block and when you come up to tell me to sit down, I will question your understanding of planning permission

 

[Jim in the West]

Although the rumours are circulating that the money is not there to build it.....

And those rumours are spectacularly wrong!

 

[Gritt23]

I confidently expect people to be AMAZED when they find out how the investment package is being put together.

The gloom-merchants will be eating their words.

Any idea when we will find out.

I wouldn't class myself as a "gloom-merchant" on this, just an accountant who can't see how the numbers stack up on what we currently know. That just makes me instinctively cautious.

 

[sir albion]

Wasted? Do you actually know anything about the process of building a stadium, and this one in particular ?

You will find that everyother club who has built a stadium didn't take over a year to process the building of a stadium,that is done and organised before hand.

The club have made for a few changes,but the rest was already in place

 

[Lord Bracknell]

From Contract Journal, 7 November 2007:-

Brighton FC seeks bids for new stadium

Brighton & Hove Albion FC is seeking expressions of interest from contractors for a £50m deal to build a new stadium for the club.

After a seven-year struggle, including two public inquiries and a judicial review, the stadium finally got the green light from Envionment Minister Hazel Blears in July this year.

Industry insiders say that firms such as Sir Robert McAlpine, Laing O'Rourke, Bovis Lend Lease and Alfred McAlpine could be among the potential bidders.

But one contact warned: "Robert McAlpine is already heavily involved in the 2012 Olympics and may not have the capacity to go for this."

The job will be tendered as a two-stage deal, with work on site expected to kick off next September. The new stadium, with seating for 22,374 spectators, is due to open by August 2010.

The facility will be built on a site in Falmer, on the outskirts of Brighton.

The club is flagging up the project as "not just a new home for a football club, but a custom-built education centre working in partnership with local college and universities to create a significant regeneration programme for the local area through a multi-functional community facility".

 

[Titanic]

I confidently expect people to be AMAZED when they find out how the investment package is being put together.

The gloom-merchants will be eating their words.

That sounds FANTASTIC - I can't wait... when are we likely to hear ?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

That sounds FANTASTIC - I can't wait... when are we likely to hear ?

The CLUE about the funding package lies in the final paragraph of the piece in Contract Journal:-

The club is flagging up the project as "not just a new home for a football club, but a custom-built education centre working in partnership with local college and universities to create a significant regeneration programme for the local area through a multi-functional community facility".

 

[sir albion]

From Contract Journal, 7 November 2007:-

Brighton FC seeks bids for new stadium

Brighton & Hove Albion FC is seeking expressions of interest from contractors for a £50m deal to build a new stadium for the club.

After a seven-year struggle, including two public inquiries and a judicial review, the stadium finally got the green light from Envionment Minister Hazel Blears in July this year.

Industry insiders say that firms such as Sir Robert McAlpine, Laing O'Rourke, Bovis Lend Lease and Alfred McAlpine could be among the potential bidders.

But one contact warned: "Robert McAlpine is already heavily involved in the 2012 Olympics and may not have the capacity to go for this."

The job will be tendered as a two-stage deal, with work on site expected to kick off next September. The new stadium, with seating for 22,374 spectators, is due to open by August 2010.

The facility will be built on a site in Falmer, on the outskirts of Brighton.

The club is flagging up the project as "not just a new home for a football club, but a custom-built education centre working in partnership with local college and universities to create a significant regeneration programme for the local area through a multi-functional community facility".

Let me guess,the board and fans will run through brighton with big buckets to collect scraps

or fatboy will have a huge tour

 

[Titanic]

The CLUE about the funding package lies in the final paragraph of the piece in Contract Journal:-

The club is flagging up the project as "not just a new home for a football club, but a custom-built education centre working in partnership with local college and universities to create a significant regeneration programme for the local area through a multi-functional community facility".

Does that mean we can get wedges of lottery funding ?

 

[Arthur]

The CLUE about the funding package lies in the final paragraph of the piece in Contract Journal:-

The club is flagging up the project as "not just a new home for a football club, but a custom-built education centre working in partnership with local college and universities to create a significant regeneration programme for the local area through a multi-functional community facility".

And what exactly does that mean? We are having to wait to get funding from some education grant??

 

[Arthur]

Does that mean we can get wedges of lottery funding ?

I'd be very surprised if it was lottery money as they have already applied and been turned down by the lottery.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And what exactly does that mean? We are having to wait to get funding from some education grant??

Some of the funding has arrived already. The SEEDA money for the roads package came not just because of the stadium project, but because the road improvements open up the site to deliver other regeneration and educational benefits.

People who are claiming that the Club have been "wasting time" and doing nothing to sort the project out are spectacularly WRONG.

 

[Peter Grummit]

I understand the club has had an excellent response to the contract EOI with a number of serious bids. This is good news not least because the climate for stadia construction is not in the procurer's favour given the Olympics, steel and labour prices.

We know that Price Waterhouse Coopers are working on the funding package which will be costing us the proverbial arm and a leg, but they ought to know what they are doing.

So I remain optimistic despite only really believing it when it happens.
PG

 

[Meade's Ball]

I was hilariously mistakenly signed-up for a year's subscription to Contract Journal when i was a trainee member of the Chuck Norris Bearhug Clinic of Strangleholds. I'd already completed the John Prescott Punch'n'Run Eggheads Weekend in Weston Supermare and looked to further myself in the assassin's trade, but this was all before the suicide bomber took centre stage, mastering the profession and returned to my second art, Sean Connery Lookalike Everything For A Pound Openings mostly done early on a Wednesday with the desperate or homeless camped outside. I've won a few hearts in that, let me tell you. But when the openings closed i'd have to remove my phony oily beard, brush away the ageing flour in my standard plastic pony-tailed hair and go without stories or completed sexual conquests to the post-office, my grotty workplace, to disappointingly stamp the elderly's rotten forms, thinking as i did that i could either slay or lay them with just a dash of my hidden, lifelong talents.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Hopefully we'll get the funds in place, so we can send in the diggers by Autumn.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I was hilariously mistakenly signed-up for a year's subscription to Contract Journal when i was a trainee member of the Chuck Norris Bearhug Clinic of Strangleholds. I'd already completed the John Prescott Punch'n'Run Eggheads Weekend in Weston Supermare and looked to further myself in the assassin's trade, but this was all before the suicide bomber took centre stage, mastering the profession and returned to my second art, Sean Connery Lookalike Everything For A Pound Openings mostly done early on a Wednesday with the desperate or homeless camped outside. I've won a few hearts in that, let me tell you. But when the openings closed i'd have to remove my phony oily beard, brush away the ageing flour in my standard plastic pony-tailed hair and go without stories or completed sexual conquests to the post-office, my grotty workplace, to disappointingly stamp the elderly's rotten forms, thinking as i did that i could either slay or lay them with just a dash of my hidden, lifelong talents.

At last.

Someone on NSC who understands the complexities of the process.

 

[Gritt23]

Some of the funding has arrived already. The SEEDA money for the roads package came not just because of the stadium project, but because the road improvements open up the site to deliver other regeneration and educational benefits.

Realistically though, how much of the £50m are we honestly saying we could have picked up from benefits and grants?

Even if it 50% (which seems enormous) then we are still having to borrow £25m purely on the construction. Let's just say we are borrowing that at a flat 6%, interest only, that is still £1.5m we will need to find every single year, and will be remaining that £25m in debt purely on the stadium.

As I say, it seems ludicrous to be trying to do this alone, we should be "actively seeking" investment, as we have been told we are doing, but have shown absolutely no sign of actually doing.

I just hope that no-one's ego is getting in the way of doing the best by the club.