Used to work for this lot - bloody dreadful bunch. I like them even less now. Who the **** do they think they are - bad neighbours indeed! HP have been busy selling off their land holdings in the area for years - that's what's really behind their whinging. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17783410
Ive been ontracted in there as well. They will spend the next two years in their little circles discusing how they should discuss agenda to set up the agenda to discuss the agenda which sets up the agenda to discuss the agenda..........................drinking free coffee and avoiding doing anything constructive.
Sounds familiar Sapphire. I really do fail to see how having a football stadium half a mile away which will operate outside of their office hours will have any impact on HP's offices.
WUMs aside I hope Rovers don't have as many problems as we have had with the new stadium, it's been a real ball ache...
It's looking good at the moment Delboy, but I'm under no illusions about the rocky road ahead. I think that South Glos should be ok with planning permission as I know that they want a decent stadium on their patch, a mate of mine works in the South Glos planning department. However, the problems will arise with Bristol CC and the permission for a Sainsburys on the Mem. That will be sticky. I reckon that both teams will be playing in their new stadiums for the start of the 2016-17 season. Seems a long way off but here's hoping
I dont think the stadium will be half a mile away from their buildings BB. If you go to the UWE website and look up their internal magazine 'The Bulletin' for when the land was sold to UWE. (http://www2.uwe.ac.uk/services/Marketing/press/pdf/bulletinOct08.pdf) The Gas Ground is on the eye shaped piece of ground marked 'new ground'.
Thanks for the comment Delboy. I think and certainly hope there has been a difference in the two approaches. Higgsie seems to be tackling the potential objections on a personal level and sorting things out before they go too far.
i wish you all the best with your new stadium, as for a supermarket at the mem. you will note tescos are on the back foot, but that should not stop the expansionist plans of sainsbury, asda morrisons and waitrose. a new supermarket at the mem would have a sizeable catchment area, are there many other s/markerts in the area? anyway good luck. aj
