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to be perfectly honest...they've got a point. I wouldn't want to look out of my back window at some concrete monstrosity where before there was green fields and trees (however badly kept). If they win it's up to them to stop whining and drive the redevelopment of the site properly though. Just leaving it to accumulate more dog poo would be as bad as building a training ground on it. As far as we're concerned if redeveloping harlington is a cheaper and better option...result - everyones happy.
We have about as much chance of securing the Car Giant site as signing signing Ronaldo and Messi on Thursday, wake up and change the record please. That company is known nationally, he gets more customers a week buying cars than we get at Home games, where the hell in West London is he going to get a site as big as that and he is expanding it all the time, wake up please.
That bloke leaning over fence could easily be a Brentford fan,probably put the group together but if for eg team he supports were moving in I doubt anything would have been put together to prevent the plans!
Maybe they do have a point. Maybe we should find somewhere better. As for the stadium, we should always have a backup plan.
You are talking as if it is just us after that site but it is a much bigger development than just our new ground.
Car giant can say what it wants, a compulsory purchase order will soon shut them up. Borris's dreams for the Old Oak site will be pretty unstoppable once HS2 gets the green light and seeing as all parties have agreed it is necessary then I can't see what will stop it, certainly not the car giant boss. He singles us out as if we're talking out of turn, but this whole thing is the London General Assembly's doing, we are just in it to get the project moving, plus we get a nice new stadium.
Am I right in thinking the facilities there are ****? Dilapidated buildings often attract trouble! Be careful what you wish for.
I'd laugh if we pulled out and a big developer stepped in and turned it in to a new sprawling industrial estate, teach the whinging mofos
Tony should show so fight on this - what-ever you build, where-ever you build it you will always have opposition. OR maybe Tony has got wind of another site that is coming up that he prefers? A lot of talk of a relaxation of greenbelt land at the moment.
A few sad NIMBYs. They are going to explore funding for a new pavilion? Where's the profit? Who is going to invest? I'm afraid I won't be at all sad if it is turned into some horrible development with loads of problems along the way. Interestingly, Ealing Council remain keen from the way that piece is written.
I would have expected a man like TF not to have been put off by the prospect of further legal wrangles when you consider that as the article states the protesters have already lost a high court challenge earlier this year. Every development will involve some sort of struggle with planners etc. i can't help feeling that either he wasn't sure about this venture from the beginning which is worrying or that there is some other undisclosed reason for not pursuing the idea which is not good news either.
The fact remains we just don't know what is behind the recent comments, could just be posturing, could be we're fed up of waiting. Let's just see what happens.
This was discussed on another thread. I don't think it is bad necessarily. Imperial are being co-operative and having more room at Harlington without having to start from scratch makes a lot of business sense.
Not an INK as such but something that was overheard some time back. My mum is a church warden for St Marys in Acton. The vicar at the time was a spuds nut and he got on well with the Mayor of Ealing (A fellow spud I believe) who attends services there. They were talking about us and our move and it was said by the Mayor that a friend if his high up in H&F council had told him, we had spoken about getting the BBC site on the old White city stadium site. This was while Flavio and the poison dwarf were about to sell to tony. Whether there was/is anything in this, I don't know but I don't see her making it up. (she's a Leeds fan but we are her second fav club) Just a thought that if the Car Giant lot scupper the stadium, we might be able to resurrect something there.
Chances are they'll pack it full of new homes with no additional infrastructure. With the government pushing through new homes those people have very little chance of that area remaining a green field.
