http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/lega...City-stadium/story-14090891-detail/story.html A CAMPAIGNER who has submitted a legal challenge over the future of Ashton Vale where Bristol City's 30,000-seat stadium is planned has been refused legal aid. But the decision is not expected to stop the challenge from going ahead. It is believed that the lawyers acting for the campaigner might be working on a "no win, no fee" basis which means no costs would be incurred if he lost. If he won, then his lawyers would seek costs against Bristol City Council which decided in June to award town green status to part of the 42-acre site â but not the former landfill tip where the stadium is proposed. Would imagine, if true, no lawyer would take it on then unless they thought they had a good chance of winning if you only get paid if you win. Though the council will be screwed if they lose and they would have to pay the lawyers and then SL will be taking the council to court for damages for selling him the land on the promise he could build the stadium as without being able to build on it it is a worthless piece of land.
I've just posted this on the Evening Post board. I must admit, there are times when I despair that Bristol will ever make any progress compared with other major cities in England. NO ARENA FOR CONCERTS ETC, NO TEST MATCH CRICKET IN GLOS OR SOMERSET NO TRAM OR LIGHT RAILWAY SYSTEM NO NEW MAJOR ROADS SINCE THE WAR WITHIN CITY BOUNDARY (M32 built by government, St Phillips Causeway and Airport Road are not major road projects) Whiteladies Rd, Gloucester Rd, Wells Rd, Bath Rd, Two Mile Hill, Hotwell Road, East St are single lane roads with rush hour parking on both sides. BRISTOL ROVERS FAILED ATTEMPTS IN 1990'S TO FIND LAND WITHIN CITY BOUNDARY FOR NEW STADIUM. THE FARCICAL SITUATION ABOUT CITY'S ATTEMPT TO RELOCATE TO ASHTON VALE. “The residents of Long Ashton have long enjoyed the fact that they live closer to the Bristol City centre than about 65% of Bristol residents - while paying lower council taxes, lower bus fares to work, close to shoppping and able to enjoy the Bristol social life. This long drawn out farce is not about a TVG. It is about denying a large company that operates within the Bristol City boundary, with a turnover of many millions of £'s, employing a not insignificant number of people, the opportunity to re-locate it's business to a derelict, former land-fill site within the city boundary. The TVG legislation was certainly not designed to stifle business in this way. so if the Stadium project fails, will the LAPC then campaign for the removal of the David Lloyd Centre and the Park and Ride and also to campaign for the closure of Ashton Court as a site for Balloon Fiestas etc. If you accept all the benefits of living so close to Bristol City centre, accept some of the debits as well. If you are not willing, then move to central Somerset! I hear Binegar is very quiet since the trains stopped passing through in the mid 60's.”
It's a farce and the city council and namby pamby do gooder liberal laws don't help. In any proper city the stadium would just be built because it's needed rather than listening to the nimby's.
You couldn't make it up, NOWHERE else in this country could this happen and its about time that this sort of thing was stamped on by the authorities for once and for all... For instance, there is a campaign to make the energy company spend 100's of millions more putting the electicity cables underground rather than make the countryside look untidy. FFS, what effing difference does it make - we need energy and they would be the first to complain if the lights went out. Its time that it was made illegal for a handful of protesters to stop major projects going ahead, it is absolute insanity. If they don't like it tough or, let them pay the extra...
