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[Albion] Bennett's Field









amexer

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Aug 8, 2011
6,259
Interesting to see what happens now. Dont know if it was number of units or they dont what anything there, Whatever it is value has now gone down so wait for Bloom to strike
 




Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
29,840
Hove
Interesting to see what happens now. Dont know if it was number of units or they dont what anything there, Whatever it is value has now gone down so wait for Bloom to strike
Yep, the more refusals he racks up on the site, the less attractive it will appear to any speculative approaches.
 






BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
10,989
WeHo
Oh, thanks - I missed that - good - should hopefully mean a deal can be done and 1901s can move back there - freeing up more Uni parking - maybe for next season...?

The application they put in would have been bringing in £120,000 a week. Obviously that’s not profit but what the students would be paying in total a week. That’s over £6m a year incoming. Not sure we can afford to rival that sort of income to pay for some parking spaces. Mr Bennett will just put together another follow up application with less units and try again. There’s so much money to be made in student accommodation he’d be stupid not to.
 






Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
64,378
Withdean area
The application they put in would have been bringing in £120,000 a week. Obviously that’s not profit but what the students would be paying in total a week. That’s over £6m a year incoming. Not sure we can afford to rival that sort of income to pay for some parking spaces. Mr Bennett will just put together another follow up application with less units and try again. There’s so much money to be made in student accommodation he’d be stupid not to.
It would be a private student accommodation provider who’d buy the land outright from Bennett. I’ve seen a very similar situation, this will take a few years to get planning. The provider is likely bankrolling the costly and very detailed planning packages.
 


BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
10,989
WeHo
It would be a private student accommodation provider who’d buy the land outright from Bennett. I’ve seen a very similar situation, this will take a few years to get planning. The provider is likely bankrolling the costly and very detailed planning packages.
Indeed :thumbsup: my point was Mr Bennett is looking for a much bigger payday than the club will give him for parking.
 






Driver8

On the road...
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Jul 31, 2005
15,996
North Wales
Downing (property developers) have bought Bennett’s Field so the student accommodation will definitely be going ahead.
 










Arthur

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Jul 8, 2003
8,602
Buxted Harbour
So the clubs hotel idea was booted into the bushes, but a similar development, literally yards away, is likely to go ahead.... bloody planners are a joke.
Well you say that but if you take your blue and white tinted spectacles off for the second the club made a big song and dance during the planning process for the ground that there would be no further development on the site once the ground was built. They went back on that within a couple of years of being there. Whilst I agree with your point the club went back on their word 10 years ago first.
 








Paulie Gualtieri

Bada Bing
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May 8, 2018
9,371
Shirley just build the 555 apartments on top of the north stand, allow say 12 persons per balcony and we have our 10k wall of noise north stand*

* some work would be needed in leasehold agreement about occupier availability on matchday and mandatory singing but get that sorted and it’s a goer
 




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