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On the Left Wing
KIT NAPIER
Would be cool to have a broad blue body with white sleeves to the screen .....
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Where is Pende anyway? Couldn't find it on the map last night.
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Pende was kept as a secret location at the request of NSC Board members to stop the opponents of Falmer using it as ammunition at the Public Inquiry.
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pende.htm
Located as 120 acres between Shoreham Airport and Lancing (twice as large as Waterhall).
It is envisaged by me to be the best alternative if Prescott says No.
I think it would be a cheaper and better location to Falmer Village Way North. But I did not want to muck up Falmer's chances by putting it in the public domain.
The area will be developed along some lines within the next five years, so it will have to be allocated for some use in the local Adur Plan.
I mentioned it to Martin Perry and got a reply years ago. He considered Falmer to be a better bet. (He is not a local to Sussex so back then he did not the area too well.)
My motives are two:
1) I want the best possible stadium (for Pende it will be multiple stadia) for the Albion and the community of Sussex (not a bit of a compromise as Falmer looks like being?)
2) I want the area to be developed in the best possible way and not turned into a tip masquerading as a golf course.
The reason why it is a golf course is because the owners can get tax exemption for dumping spoil.
However, the bonus is the tax exemption would still apply if it was a football stadium with sporting facilities. So it would be possible to get the land for nought, just the cost of the access roads, and the ancillary development could even pay for this.
Recently, Shoreham Airport have revised plans to realign their runway, which is unpopular. This could only be baulked if an alternative plan could be thought up for the site.
Nowhere in England has any plan for a football stadium NOT received opposition from local residents. However, in this case it is a mile from the nearest houses (and the access road will avoid all the houses as well), and the local people are likely to favour it above the alternative of a noisy airport with large aircraft and kerosene fumes.
The Council have a policy of encouraging investment and jobs because the employment opportunities in the Adur area are the worst in Sussex.
It is not AONB land. The Council have already said it will not be in the National Park. So this means NO Public Inquiry.
My vision was to landscape the area like the area around Brooklands Boating Lake in Worthing, so the green lobby would be unlikely to object either.
Aerial map:
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/NMF3aW.jpg
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pende.htm
Located as 120 acres between Shoreham Airport and Lancing (twice as large as Waterhall).
It is envisaged by me to be the best alternative if Prescott says No.
I think it would be a cheaper and better location to Falmer Village Way North. But I did not want to muck up Falmer's chances by putting it in the public domain.
The area will be developed along some lines within the next five years, so it will have to be allocated for some use in the local Adur Plan.
I mentioned it to Martin Perry and got a reply years ago. He considered Falmer to be a better bet. (He is not a local to Sussex so back then he did not the area too well.)
My motives are two:
1) I want the best possible stadium (for Pende it will be multiple stadia) for the Albion and the community of Sussex (not a bit of a compromise as Falmer looks like being?)
2) I want the area to be developed in the best possible way and not turned into a tip masquerading as a golf course.
The reason why it is a golf course is because the owners can get tax exemption for dumping spoil.
However, the bonus is the tax exemption would still apply if it was a football stadium with sporting facilities. So it would be possible to get the land for nought, just the cost of the access roads, and the ancillary development could even pay for this.
Recently, Shoreham Airport have revised plans to realign their runway, which is unpopular. This could only be baulked if an alternative plan could be thought up for the site.
Nowhere in England has any plan for a football stadium NOT received opposition from local residents. However, in this case it is a mile from the nearest houses (and the access road will avoid all the houses as well), and the local people are likely to favour it above the alternative of a noisy airport with large aircraft and kerosene fumes.
The Council have a policy of encouraging investment and jobs because the employment opportunities in the Adur area are the worst in Sussex.
It is not AONB land. The Council have already said it will not be in the National Park. So this means NO Public Inquiry.
My vision was to landscape the area like the area around Brooklands Boating Lake in Worthing, so the green lobby would be unlikely to object either.
Aerial map:
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/NMF3aW.jpg
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The Large One
Who's Next?
Downloaded Penguin said:
You had to f***ing ask...
CAFC Matt
New member
Pray that Prescott ain't reading this 
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
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Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
Perseus, old chap, I'd change your dealer.
I know it's only a little one... but can I suggest this thread makes it into 'NSC Gold' - it is an absolute classic 
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Oh, alright then. As we may not be playing Grimsby next season:
Come all you gallant sailors
Who sail across the sea
And listen to this story
I'm about to tell to thee
Concerning those bold fishermen
Who sail the seas so wet
A hunting for fish-fingers
With a harpoon and a net
Twas in the year of 64
or was it 63?
That we set sail from the West Pier, Brighton
Bound for Americee
The storms they was a-raging
And the waves a dreadful sight
It took us forty days, me boys
To reach the Isle Of Wight
Our captain's name was Gladys
And he wore a dress of red
Which might have been the reason
He was not married
He was the gay old sea dog
And it was his favourite joy
To take a stroll around the deck
With the handsome cabin boy
Two hundred miles from Iceland
A mighty shoal we spied
MacFisheries Fish-fingers
Came a-floating against the tide
We set off in our longboats
But then our luck we cursed
Alas we were too late
The chinese take-away got there first
Those slant-eyed heathens came at us
They was a dreadful crew
All brandishing computers
And giving it the old Kung-Fu
We sang to them a sea shanty
But they did not want to know
Their skipper felled our mizzen mast
With one Karate blow
We came back to old England
A twelve months and a day
It would have been much quicker, but
We took the pretty way
No more I'll go fish-fingering
On the frozen arctic shore
Next year I'll hunt duck-burgers
On the plains of Falmer
Come all you gallant sailors
Who sail across the sea
And listen to this story
I'm about to tell to thee
Concerning those bold fishermen
Who sail the seas so wet
A hunting for fish-fingers
With a harpoon and a net
Twas in the year of 64
or was it 63?
That we set sail from the West Pier, Brighton
Bound for Americee
The storms they was a-raging
And the waves a dreadful sight
It took us forty days, me boys
To reach the Isle Of Wight
Our captain's name was Gladys
And he wore a dress of red
Which might have been the reason
He was not married
He was the gay old sea dog
And it was his favourite joy
To take a stroll around the deck
With the handsome cabin boy
Two hundred miles from Iceland
A mighty shoal we spied
MacFisheries Fish-fingers
Came a-floating against the tide
We set off in our longboats
But then our luck we cursed
Alas we were too late
The chinese take-away got there first
Those slant-eyed heathens came at us
They was a dreadful crew
All brandishing computers
And giving it the old Kung-Fu
We sang to them a sea shanty
But they did not want to know
Their skipper felled our mizzen mast
With one Karate blow
We came back to old England
A twelve months and a day
It would have been much quicker, but
We took the pretty way
No more I'll go fish-fingering
On the frozen arctic shore
Next year I'll hunt duck-burgers
On the plains of Falmer
On the Left Wing
KIT NAPIER
Very Good perseus ....
intrigued by your alternative site as an ex Lancing resident (as well as Mile Oak)
All those acres eh!
intrigued by your alternative site as an ex Lancing resident (as well as Mile Oak)
All those acres eh!
Are you the ghost of Tinita Tikaram?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
perseus 