Looks like you could avoid another judicial review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-18408620
Maybe just another false dawn. Not sure why the Nimbys would agree to this when they were essentially offerred the same deal by the council at the last go around. Unless they see that the facts are against them, I'm not sure why the sudden compromise. Plus, it's still subject to an inspector's report which means more time and money wasted. I was hoping that SL would go for the jugular and build on the whole site to spite these ******ed twats who have cost both the club, SL, the council and the tax payer so much wasted time and money.
perhaps they were worried the JR was about to go against them for some reason, the Nimbys law team have ran rings around BCC previously, they may know something we don't If the JR went ahead the worse scenario for us was referral back to an inspector? with this deal we get referral back to an inspector? I fail to see where the good news is? Let the JR happen I say. BCC are only concerned about losing money now, well thats their fault for being so damn incompetent in the first place..
and on the same day the news came out that a date has been fixed for South Gloucestershire councillors to decide whether to grant planning permission for Bristol Rovers' new £40 million stadium on the northern fringe of the city. They will meet at 2.30pm on Thursday, July 19, at the council offices in Thornbury to consider the issue. So maybe by the end of the summer both Bristol and Gloucestershire clubs will have a decision on their futures once and for all.
We'll get PP for the UWE stadium - that much I'm sure. The problem will be the dead hand of BCC with the application for Sainsbury's on the Mem.....
Thats gonna be your problem! Even if you get it, it will only just be the start then. i genuinely hope you do get it though...
I Hope both clubs get there stadiums,both deserve them. I do however think south gloc is more forward thinking than Bristol council.
Don't kid yourself that South Glos Council is any more forward thinking than Bristol City Council. They have allowed massive building developments - Cribbs Causeway Mall, MOD, UWE, Hewlett Packard, Axa SunLife, Aztec West - without any improvement to the road systems in the area which mean total taffic stagnation from the M5 at Almondsbury to the M32 at Hambrook every rush hour and total gridlock at The Mall every Christmas. Now they are faced with a stadium Planning application from BRFC, they may all of a sudden realise what additional traffic chaos there will be before a Tuesday evening match, especially as it could be a big cuptie against a Prem team. They also built a ring road, A4174 with roundabout exits instead of slip roads and then reduce it to one lane in each direction during the rush hours with a bus lane that carries at max half a dozen buses per hour. Forward thinking is not the term I would use.
