Rugby Club progress...

WoolmanT

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Why don't the lights have back boards on in a probably pointless attempt to reduce light pollution? I walked along the Doxey road last week and these lights are a danger to drivers on the Doxey road, dazzling, at best. I then continued along the lines to Eccleshall road. It cannot be right that the whole of the lines along to and including the cemetery are lit up like some crazy alien landing. This IS NOT compatible with your situation in the middle of a wildlife reserve. Continuous complaints to the council submitted. I suggest others do the same until the rugby club stop the horrific and dangerous light pollution. Find a solution!

Some things i’ll accept and other things are just made up - I live near Seighford, so I drive down the Doxey Rd to the club most evenings, not once have I been blinded, dazzled and swerved into the universal club. Yes it’s brightly lit, they are floodlights but a danger to drivers? Utter rubbish. Any rugby club blamed traffic collisions? Let’s deal in facts
 

WoolmanT

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As we all know, you shouldn't actually need speed bumps along the access road. People should be sensible enough to drive at a low speed along there.

The best way to stop it would be banning members (and their parents in the case of children) who speed along it.

As we all know you shouldn’t actually need speed bumps along the access road?
I disagree, people speed past schools, nurseries, hospitals, doctors surgeries - it happens every day of the week. We will be proactive to sort it
 

Pooryorick

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RangeRovers will sail over the speedbumps, but perhaps they can have a flat channel at the side so all the cyclist visitors don't get flung off into the SSSI?
 

basil

don't mention the blinds
My old mate Gilbert suggests that Castlefields and the surrounding area is quieter and minus traffic congestion on Sundays......
 

Pooryorick

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Having looked more carefully at the computerised pics of the WAR, I can't see how the Lidl junction can work with all the Greyfriars Place and SGI site traffic. It's already overloaded. The master plan might be to build even bigger carparks on the Marshes. Might as well leaving the piledriver there permanently.
 

The Hawk

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Having looked more carefully at the computerised pics of the WAR, I can't see how the Lidl junction can work with all the Greyfriars Place and SGI site traffic. It's already overloaded.
The Council will be installing this at the junction:
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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Having looked more carefully at the computerised pics of the WAR, I can't see how the Lidl junction can work with all the Greyfriars Place and SGI site traffic. It's already overloaded. The master plan might be to build even bigger carparks on the Marshes. Might as well leaving the piledriver there permanently.
You'll find that ruddy piledriver shoved somewhere if you suggest that again!
 

Feed The Goat

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The club house and pitches have been in discussions for 30 years? That's a bit worrying, because those were the days when the council was investigated by the police and the chairman (as then) was sent to prison for accepting bribes.
re, speeding on the entrance road, it doesn't say much for club member discipline if they can't act sensibly in their own backyard.

Can you name the chairman (as then) who was sent to Prison and also the length of sentence given.

Just wondering, thats all.

Many Thanks.
 

WoolmanT

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The club house and pitches have been in discussions for 30 years? That's a bit worrying, because those were the days when the council was investigated by the police and the chairman (as then) was sent to prison for accepting bribes.
re, speeding on the entrance road, it doesn't say much for club member discipline if they can't act sensibly in their own backyard.

Sorry I don’t know anything about a councillor being jailed 30+ years ago. If you are suggesting that there has been bribery involved that’s just fiction. Members have been emailed regularly about the access road. As I mentioned previously, 80% of visitors to the club are not members. Thanks.
 

Pooryorick

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Can you name the chairman (as then) who was sent to Prison and also the length of sentence given.

Just wondering, thats all.

Many Thanks.

There was a feature about it in the Newsletter a few years ago and was on their website, but that seems to have gone now. I think his name was Chapman and he died soon after going into prison.
 

Feed The Goat

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There was a feature about it in the Newsletter a few years ago and was on their website, but that seems to have gone now. I think his name was Chapman and he died soon after going into prison.

Was he Chairman of the Rugby club or Chairman of the planning committee?

Just wondering, thats all.

Many Thanks.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
There was a feature about it in the Newsletter a few years ago and was on their website, but that seems to have gone now. I think his name was Chapman and he died soon after going into prison.
Was he Chairman of the Rugby club or Chairman of the planning committee?
Just wondering, thats all.
Many Thanks.
There was the George Newman affair in the mid-70s - nothing to do with that - that was planning-related..?
 
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