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Public scrutiny is quite clearly not his forte.I think this is the last we will hear from our pal Tim. I will email him regarding this report
Good luck with a more direct approach.
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Public scrutiny is quite clearly not his forte.I think this is the last we will hear from our pal Tim. I will email him regarding this report
As I said, this desecration should never have been allowed, BUT IT WAS, and whatever you think about the legitimacy of the legal process that was followed, IT WAS. We are where we are! Let's make the best of it, or should we just keep moaning about the whole project, and not try to see anything positive come out of it.Sometimes it would be better if we were where we were, before we are where we now are.
This is one of those times.
Leave him alone, he's in the minority, don't you know!!!
I refer the Right Honorable Member to the Parable of the Shitted Bed.As I said, this desecration should never have been allowed, BUT IT WAS, and whatever you think about the legitimacy of the legal process that was followed, IT WAS. We are where we are! Let's make the best of it, or should we just keep moaning about the whole project, and not try to see anything positive come out of it.
Hey wow! Quick kids! Now there's an entire herd of non sequiturs dancing majestically across the forum.I know, lets campaign for the Rugby Club to be moved, *their* plush new club house to be demolished, and while we are at it, lets have that housing estate, on the former Venables Wood Yard relocated or knocked down as well? Lets have the Marsh returned to its former glory. and why stop at that; lets have the Stafford of the 1970's back? Stafford Rangers would be the best non-league team in the country, I would be having fantastic teenage years, ..........
Hey @Gareth , do you hear that whooshing noise? Just above your head? It's the sound of 'the point', being spectacularly missed by you, again.I don't think forum can be classed as the voice of the majority either, far from it in fact when it comes to the rugby club
Free car park? How free is that when the rug club move was financed partly by the taxpayer? Will it be free when the WAR is fully afloat?
Any sports club / school are well within their rights to apply to Sport England for a grant. The process was followed and grant awarded. Not a cent of taxpayer money was used on the car parks.
But thank you for your note.
[/QUOTE]Any sports club / school are well within their rights to apply to Sport England for a grant. The process was followed and grant awarded. Not a cent of taxpayer money was used on the car parks.
But thank you for your note.
QUOTE="Pooryorick, post: 406125, member: 12107"]Free car park? How free is that when the rug club move was financed partly by the taxpayer? Will it be free when the WAR is fully afloat?
[/QUOTE]Wow, we really are scraping the bottom of the conspiracy theory barrel now aren’t you.
Sport England grants are centrally / national lottery funded - like everyone else we are well within our rights to apply, we did, followed the correct & rigorous process and it was granted. Are you saying Stafford BC employees can click their fingers and the bank vault opens?
The person in question was an active playing member of the club.....I would say we would have been neglectful not to utilise someone with their experience to advise in a variety of areas. Why wouldn’t we? I’m guessing you wouldn’t.
Hypothetically, if a local headmistress or headmaster of a school was an active member of say, a dance school, you’d think that person would be in a good position to advise in a safeguarding role? Utilise their skills for the benefit of the club? With your argument, you obviously wouldn’t. Ridiculous.
Who paid for the car park? You come on here, spout ill informed nonsense with zero evidence or objectivity and don’t know who actually paid for the land and construction? If you want to believe the evil rugby club has stolen taxpayer money to fund our grotesque blight on the Stafford landscape, be my guest. Or, if you want to know who actually paid for it, including the car parks, a minimal amount of research on here or available public information will answer that for you.
How many SportEngland grants are awarded to clubs whose directors are also council heads of sport?
Who paid for the carpark, then? Is it a separate business?
Well done.I have received a reply regarding the lighting report and the installation complies with the original plans
From another horse's mouth
Director Martin Lennon said: “The legal situation is not decided. In the meantime the club has taken the decision that given the uncertainty around that, to submit a new application to the borough council.
“The judicial review could take too long and we just want to get on with it. We have a lot of grant money that is time dependent including half a million from Sport England.
“We will still move forward and still build it either way but it won’t be as good as it could be if we get all of the funding.”
He added: “It boils down to whether the old regulations or the new regulations were followed through the planning process. I can’t speak for the motivations of the residents other than to say they want to try their best to delay this.”
The project is worth £3.5m in total and would see a new clubhouse built at the new site at Doxey Marshes.
I do wish you two would learn how to quote properly!Are you making a point here? Raising a question or just trolling through old ground?
1/ the Sport England grant was exclusively for the all weather grass pitch. Tick.
2/ if you’ll remember, this did end up going to a judicial review, which the club won. Tick.
Anything else you’d like to drag up from the annals of history?
QUOTE="Pooryorick, post: 406794, member: 12107"]From another horse's mouth
Director Martin Lennon said: “The legal situation is not decided. In the meantime the club has taken the decision that given the uncertainty around that, to submit a new application to the borough council.
“The judicial review could take too long and we just want to get on with it. We have a lot of grant money that is time dependent including half a million from Sport England.
“We will still move forward and still build it either way but it won’t be as good as it could be if we get all of the funding.”
He added: “It boils down to whether the old regulations or the new regulations were followed through the planning process. I can’t speak for the motivations of the residents other than to say they want to try their best to delay this.”
The project is worth £3.5m in total and would see a new clubhouse built at the new site at Doxey Marshes.