Mick
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Technically a dome has one side :smile:
Technically a dome has two sides - inside and outside !
Technically a dome has one side :smile:
Actually, I think these may be classed as temproy structures, and not subject to the usual planning. I could be wrong - but if did fall under the banner of tempory - then could explain it!
All I know is that I had hair back in those days.
I was early to mid twenty's I think and I am now 48.
Someone showed me an old photo of a group of us standing under a goalpost somewhere with a couple of bedsheets sewn together with ' NO TO BASILDON' in big black letters on it.
Was anyone else on here in that picture ?
Actually, I think these may be classed as temproy structures, and not subject to the usual planning. I could be wrong - but if did fall under the banner of tempory - then could explain it!
One would think that Ron has purchased these structures with one eye firmly on capturing part (or most) of the recreational 5-a-side market in the area (which as others have mentioned won't go down well with the Southend L&T Centre and Play Football), but everybody seems to be forgetting the fact that we would have required planning permission for structures of this size - has anybody recently undertaken a portal search for this scheme?
Where is the public consultation (how will the residents along Eastern Avenue feel about having to look at roof pitches which top out higher than Waitrose next door..)? Where is the travel plan for the immediate quadrupling of traffic in and out of Boots & Laces due to the proposed leisure use (if this is part of the business case)?
Another thing to think about - those structures together will take up most, if not all of the outdoor pitches at B&L - where will the youth teams be playing their matches, unless there is going to be provision elsewhere on the FF site?
Incidentally, those talking about funding are barking up the wrong tree - a couple of pots would be available, but most of this would have had to be privately funded (unless, of course, Ron has done some sort of deal for services rendered to the developer who is taking on the London Soccerdome site...).
Great news story but plenty of questions there for the sceptics and cynics amongst us...
Wasting £2m we should call it the peter Clarke dome :winking:Maybe that is why the location hasn't been revealed as well as no start date. The echo article said we will get in it the next 48 hours, but where will it be stored until it is finished?
I've got an awful feeling that we will just have a pile of what once was a Soccerdome left to rust taking up an enormous space somewhere in Southend.
Also, if planning permission has been granted for the stadium project then could this be under that? Is a quote from Ron saying it goes "hand-in-hand" with the stadium plans. Maybe it is just a small tweek to that?
Maybe that is why the location hasn't been revealed as well as no start date. The echo article said we will get in it the next 48 hours, but where will it be stored until it is finished?
I've got an awful feeling that we will just have a pile of what once was a Soccerdome left to rust taking up an enormous space somewhere in Southend.
Also, if planning permission has been granted for the stadium project then could this be under that? Is a quote from Ron saying it goes "hand-in-hand" with the stadium plans. Maybe it is just a small tweek to that?
Technically a dome has two sides - inside and outside !
Maybe it will be stored at Prospects, hence we can't use the car park anymore and we have all their vans at B&L... So many riddles yet to unfold me thinks!
IIRC the training ground just over the boundary in Rochford was for 3 pitches. So if it goes there there is probably ample room. I can't believe Ron can just erect on either site without permission though I'm not a planner. They are in neither the plan for the stadium with SBC nor the training pitches with RDC. However I think both would be supportive as it's a wonderful addition to the area's resources.
Sorry but is this still ShrimperZone???
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