The BIG News....

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

1. Planning application for the widening of the Stanmer Park road approved

2. Down to a shortlist of two contractors for the stadium.

That is all.

 

[clippedgull]

from seagulls.co.uk

Good news! It's been a big week on the road to Falmer. Firstly, Brighton & Hove City Council have approved the planning application for the widening of the Stanmer Park access road.

This is a vital part of the SEEDA funded infrastructure works and as revealed on these very pages, the council have also appointed designers for this work, and Amey, who are based in Lewes are now working hard to ensure that work on this part of the stadium project commences as scheduled in April next year.

The whole of these works are expected to take a year and so the new flyovers road junctions and access road into the University of Sussex is scheduled for completion mid 2010.

That leaves two more planning applications directly related to the stadium, our 'stadium changes and chalk re-profiling application' - the one we call the 'housekeeping application' because it sweeps up all the legislation changes that have taken place since we originally designed the stadium, is almost ready for submission and the planning office are now checking it prior to registration.

This will be followed by a small application for some replacement car parking spaces for the University of Brighton. Once we have the reference numbers of these applications we will be asking fans to write in support of them.

However even better news is that the tenders are now back from contractors bidding for the work and we have narrowed the contest down to just two of them.

Both are very experienced in stadium building in this country and we are now going into an intensive period of negotiation with both of them to decide finally who will build our new stadium.

Unlike the Olympics there is only one medal position and we are hoping to be in a position to announce who the winner is by the end of September.

The contractor is then going to have a very busy time because he will have to mobilise themselves ready for a start on the Village Way widening works in December. Exciting times ahead...

 

[Lord Large]

I didn't think for one minute it would be big news. Was hoping the club might surprise me though.

Oh well. Better than getting bad news I suppose...


...like one of our talented young defenders wanting to leave. Imagine how bad that would be.

 

[Scotty Mac]

that has made my day

 

[Lord Large]

Not really news on either count though.

Obviously the contractors were going to be wittled down as the process went on and it is not like Brighton and Hove City Council was ever going to turn down that application.

 

[northampton_seagull]

joy

 

[Skidmarks]

Does this mean promotion?

 

[Dave the OAP]

brightened up a very dismal bank holiday Monday

terrific

 

[Arthur]

Stop the world I wanna get off!

 

[blockhseagull]

Who ever described it as big news ?

Was good news i think, and the fact that one bit of news was about Falmer and they were reporting both bits of good news together i suppose it was obvious they were going to be related.

 

[northampton_seagull]

id prefered news about a player. something good. :thud:

 

[algie]

Adams did say he wants to give it 5/6 games before accessing the squad.If that happens then that takes us past deadline day

 

[Giraffe]

Woooohooooo!!!!!!!!

 

[Napper]

haha quality

bet those kicking off on the other thread feel a tad stupid

 

[dougdeep]

I was right then?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Not so good really. they told us all along that the winning tender would be announced in August and now it will be by the end of September. I doubt very much if they have workmen on the ground in December.

 

[BensGrandad]

Why the big build up for the news to be released today did the council meet to give the planning permission over the weekend.

 

[steward 433]

Not so good really. they told us all along that the winning tender would be announced in August and now it will be by the end of September. I doubt very much if they have workmen on the ground in December.

That still leaves more than enough time for the contractor to get on site by December.

Look at Liverpools new stadium it was only 2 weeks between the contractor being announced and them starting on site!!

 

[vulture]

Why the big build up for the news to be released today did the council meet to give the planning permission over the weekend.

all the lickers in the know thought it would be a laugh to make us think it was big news

 

[steward 433]

Why the big build up for the news to be released today did the council meet to give the planning permission over the weekend.

No the planning meeting was Wednesday, I went and posted on the sticky we got the application.

The tender news about being reduced to two was the other good news