New south / south west stand

or maybe for the bowls club at the ardagh on horfield Common who may soon be kicked out for the greater good of the community. Greens are salivating at potentily removing another bristol club from their gated community in horfield

If you are set against rovers developing anything then no amount of consultation will make a difference. I think the reason rovers may have did it in the end was for brownie points with the council.

So why did Emma Edwards say " I would of advised the club not to take down the stands" : because of the lengthy planning process ?.

Your fault finding in a complicated process and blaming the club. And why have an attitude " its not anyone else to fix the problem". The council and councillors should be working in unison to support and resolve issues. Many are paid by the tax payer and to say to planners / developers " its your issue " is a bit non copertaive and old fashioned.

Once again is proof of identifying obstacles in a process but giving no support to resolve. It's what lobbyist love to do !.

Which is what the club have done !. However : it's not just the clubs fault because the Greens have ' acknowledged the planning process is lengthy ". Its an A-Z catalogue of failures on many sides.

However : the Greens didn't need to get deeply involved in this process and support every group opposed to stadium plans. It should represent the many good people on this forum who live locally and support the plans.

The lobbyist traditionally supported by the Greens want there cake and eat it! They don't want a stadium in their community (fair enough) but are hiding behind process and appearing nice. That's why people on this forum are getting frustrated.

Instead of people being politically correct and hiding behind a process. Come out and say ' we don't want a stadium in our community ' says 300 lobbyist.

Let's wait and see if any of these community talks will reduce the objections. Personally I don't think they will and the well organised lobbyist will continue to do what they do. As for the Greens . Its up to them if they continually want to back local lobbyist . They do have choices !.

I think he means 'lobbyists' not lobbyist. Which I take to mean locals that are actively involved in encouraging objections against the stand.

As I pointed out before the planning officer would have met with the club to agree what info was required before this application went in , the constructor would also know what was required as they have put up these stands before. Planning Officer will not verify an application ( first application ) before they have received all the correct plans and accompanying reports. So all this additional information required came about after nimbie and Greens comments./ Objections. I worked as a landscape an arb consultant for a Council and would often meet on site with the applicant before an application went in , or be consulted on plans , which i would make my observations on, on many occasions alterations would have to be made before a decision was made or the application went to committee. TG met with Edwards before the new application went in , he was told by Edwards that she expected the application to be passed. Unfortunatley because of the Gashead , sports hating fraternity and their objection to the new application which has met all the requests made  by objectors after the last application , the new application may now have to go to committee. These sports haters just don't want a stadium that has been there for 100 years on their doorstep. 

A few things to clear up.

1. The biggest party in Bristol council are the Greens.
2. The chair of planning Committee B is Anni Stafford Townsend ( Green).
3. The only party that have opposed / called in on every single application is the Greens.
4. All other parties have supported every single application the club have made.
5. Finally : why do some not all Green supporters / sympathisers deny the hard facts ?.

It feels the Green supporters are trying to have there cake and eat it . On one hand it backs local protest groups ( which they are entitled to do ) but are also using the ' process' to blame others. It be much better to be genuine and straight forward in my opinion.

Anybody see what this ted did to the new stand?

Apparently he's also the landlord of the three lions pub (shudder) wouldn't go in that chav pub if you payed me.

Can't wait until we decide to build a new stand.......apart from the Cricket Pavillion (which I can't see a major problem' the North and the East new stands should be a doddle as they are on club grounds that will not effect the locals in any capacity. I'm happy to be proved wrong

PS...I received my letter around a week ago and I have sent my comments for the completion etc of the new stand. I may now live in Street, Somerset but prior to 2018 I was a local to the Mem (Bishopston/Cotham) so since our tenure at Twerton the Mem even in 1996 needed some investment. Forget the fans raising the money for the North Terrace I firmly believe the new stand on the South is derimental' especially with the capacity only going over by 350 what we had a few years ago. I see no real issues whatsoever regards local concern.

I await the day we extend the East Stand and hopefully totally rebuild the Blackthorn/Bass/ or whatever stand.
I feel the Fruit Market is a dead duck' besides I never liked the site anyways