http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Ashton-Vale-stadium-plan-square/story-16000086-detail/story.html. My head is spinning with this lot? surely this will add even more time to the whole sorry **** up. This city is a complete joke.
Before any Sags start crowing, your gonna have to deal with this **** next..there is no way on earth Sainsburys are gonna build on the Mem.
Going for 40 acres,not 20 and Steve Lansdown's own top team of laywers taking the tree hugging,frog jumpimg,snakes to bits..
I can't change titles mate,only content,if there is a way I don't know how,I'm asking.... Tis is now this mate......cheers....
Id like for you to have your stadium to be honest (though want ours first ) but you are right, this city is a joke! No music arena, no stadia, all we have is shopping centres and temples for our foreign friends!!
And pubs, we have lots of pubs It may not seem like it at first glance but this is actually good news for you lot. BCC have effectively already rubber stamped planning and now they have moved aside. SL, as said by Wize, can employ his top legal bods to fight the case directly. With BCC out of the frame the legal brigade will piss all over the NIMBYS.
Does this stance really surprise anyone? Living so far away I was still able to see through all this smoke and mirrors created around BCFC's desire to build a new stadium to bring better facilities for supporters to watch football. I have noticed many posts on this site relating to the fact that SL has been buying up land immediately surrounding Ashton Gate and one can only surmise that it is being done for a specific purpose. Bollocks to the ne'er do wells out in the forest and let's return to a more common sense approach of a major re-developmet of the existing site - our ancestral home. I understand that major building in the Atyeo Stand is somewhat contentious but surely developing the Dolman, East End and the Williams stands in to a continuous two level bowl like development would improve capacity and appearance substantially. On my rare visits to AG I often spend time prior to the match imagining what could be done there to improve our lot in life from a supporter standpoint by improving the ground. I would imagine that someone at some point has been through the motions of looking at Ashton Gate improvements and perhaps now is the time to go back and take a second look at what's on offer. The City council are clearly living in a non-cooperative fog and are about as useful as a hat rack to a moose and should hang their heads in shame due to their lack of commitment in moving the City forward by supporting a major sporting venue. Bring out the architects and developers and take them down to the new chairmans office, offer them a beer or two, and tell them to open up their imaginations to create and build the New Ashton Gate. Build it and they will come because you know it makes more sense than plodding down the same old road to nowhere (i.e. Ashton Vale). Time for the new chairman to make the big decisions at Ashton Gate and with our vocal support we will see the job through.
A new factor may come into play towards the end of the year. There was a narrow victory today for the YES vote in the Mayoral referendum. If the right person is elected towards the end of the year it might be that proposals such as Rovers' and City's get driven forwards in the interests of moving Bristol into the 21st century. I'm thinking of standing!
I read it as this now Lansdown now in control, instead of waiting for the council to get on with things. As YOBG (****ing agreeing with a Gashead gimp, I'm going to throw up now) this will allow BCFC to put their own lawyers who will rip this appeal up.
How many more years do we have to wait for the right person to make the right decision? We have waited long enough to wait for new developments to come in to play but they never do and we end up back at the same place every time. "Follow me I'm right behind you" comes to mind.
To Pirate 49; And what if we get a nerd like George Ferguson elected by the good citizens of Bristol - he has been quoted as being anti Ashton Vale. Here is someone who has made his pile of cash while living and working in Bristol, but probably cares more about George Ferguson than he does about Bristol. And don't forget it will not take many citizens to elect him if yesterdays referendum is anything to go by; only 25% of voters actually voted which means, not having seen the actual figures for Yes/No, approx 13% of Bristol's voters voted Yes! That's the sort of election turn out that leads to anarchy and the triumph of the minority over the silent, can't be bothered to get off our asses to vote, majority. As for the stadium, unless SL's legal brains can score heavily over the Nimby lawyers, Ashton Vale is dead in the water. On comment to Invermere Mike; There are houses in Raynes Road behind the East End which may be a block to putting an upper tier along that side. Although due to garden lengths there, the houses are not as close to pitch as at the Atyeo / Ashton Road side of the stadium.
Buy all the homeowners out and send them to Ashton Vale c/w a lifetime supply of Rover's season tickets. Problem solved.
cidered abroad. Our wonderful City does not need: a. A politician who has served on the council and has been party to the inertia which has afflicted Bristol's development. b. A person who is readily identified with one faction within Bristol. This will only result in division, and thereby slow progress. c. A 'celebrity' with only a name to offer, who doesn't know their Kingsdown from their Kingswood. We need a Bristolian with a love of the city, a vision for the future, and no significant allegiance to any faction or political party. PS..I put Ferguson into (b)!
At first sight this looked like bad news, but it means SL can go for all of the site Compromise now out the window - he's going for the lot!!!
