Albion Support King Alfred Plans

[Lord Bracknell]

Excellent!

But brave.



Albion Support King Alfred Plans

Club Press Release

The club is backing the King Alfred redevelopment, and Charlie Oatway, Alex Revell and Adam Hinshelwood together with Chairman Dick Knight and Chief Executive Martin Perry took the opportunity before the Rotherham game to sign a poster emphasising the outstanding indoor sport and swimming facilities proposed for the site.

Albion Chairman Dick Knight said, "A new sports centre is at the heart of the King Alfred scheme and more investment in sport is what Brighton and Hove desperately needs if we are to develop our future sporting heroes. Top quality indoor sports facilities at Hove and the community stadium at Falmer will create fantastic and affordable opportunities for local people to engage in sporting activities. The health and vibrancy of the city are what both projects are all about."

Albion Chief Executive Martin Perry said, "This project is a vital part of an overall vision to improve the sporting pathways in our great city. Along with the community stadium at Falmer it will make a major contribution to the regeneration of our city and help us build a healthy sustainable community. It is essential that the city supports these projects and withstands the attack from minority, self-interest groups who threaten our vision and make it hard to attract the inward investment that we so badly need to deliver these fantastic facilities for the whole of Sussex."

Josh Arghiros, Karis MD said, "We very much welcome the support of Brighton and Hove Albion FC and we look forward to working with them to develop the sporting potential and opportunities our City demands. Brighton and Hove deserves an exceptional sports centre in an exceptional building designed by one of the world's greatest architects and we look forward to delivering this outstanding development for the city."

The new sports centre has been designed in collaboration with HOK Sport Architecture, recognised as the world's leading sports architects and responsible for delivering the Olympic Stadium in Sydney and London's Olympic bid along with many of the world's most renowned stadiums.

 

[Titanic]

Josh Arghiros, Karis MD

Blimey Does anyone from HCGSB, in the mid-seventies remember him as a bit of a thug ??

 

[Biscuit]

Interesting. Potentially a good piece of PR..

 

[The Large One]

Flatly in contradiction to the bloody Insight City News.

They keep harping on and on and on about how ugy and unnecessary the King Alfred plans are. I bounced the old thread on here about who supports the development plans, and it's something like 75% on here do support it.

It's a project which brings up the old divides within the city where on one hand you have one group of people who wants to be able to justify the 'quirky, bohemian' tag that the city has (the majority), against the conservative (with a small 'c') group who want everything to remain exactly as it is (the self-important minority).

I include the regressive Regency Society in that latter group.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Excellent!

But brave.

Very brave. Considering the amount of objectors to the scheme.

I like it, but I am worried about the parking spaces and school places. 751 is a lot of units to add to the area!

 

[aftershavedave]

Excellent!

or stupid?

if you're in the middle of one planning mess what's the benefit of putting yourself in the middle of another? it's damaging by association

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Re: Re: Albion Support King Alfred Plans

Blimey Does anyone from HCGSB, in the mid-seventies remember him as a bit of a thug ??

Quite a few interesting entries on Josh Arghiros on Google for sure

 

[Gwylan]

Re: Re: Albion Support King Alfred Plans

Very brave. Considering the amount of objectors to the scheme.

But not as many as are for the scheme according to the recent poll (and according to NSC's own poll).

I haven't met anyone against the scheme yet: it's the same bunch of middle-class tossers who are against anything that gives pleasure to the masses.

 

[William Chops]

I live very close to the King Alfred (Osborne Villas) and from my experience most people in the local area are, in principle, for the scheme.

There is a very small but incredibly vocal band of people in this area who oppose the scheme. Their opposition is generally registered via letters in the Argus (folk like Ken Fines who appears to have a lot of time on his hands) and the occassional stall on George St. But, if you talk to a wide cross section of people you generally get a majority thumbs up.

I welcome the Albion's support and I really hope that the King Alfred Gehry building goes up. The city needs it for so many reasons.

I find it bizarre that in such an allegedly progressive city we struggle to get any contemporary architecture.

 

[aftershavedave]

I live very close to the King Alfred (Osborne Villas) and from my experience most people in the local area are, in principle, for the scheme.

There is a very small but incredibly vocal band of people in this area who oppose the scheme. Their opposition is generally registered via letters in the Argus (folk like Ken Fines who appears to have a lot of time on his hands) and the occassional stall on George St. But, if you talk to a wide cross section of people you generally get a majority thumbs up.

I welcome the Albion's support and I really hope that the King Alfred Gehry building goes up. The city needs it for so many reasons.

I find it bizarre that in such an allegedly progressive city we struggle to get any contemporary architecture.

greetings mr chops from a fellow osborne villain

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I was judging by the amount of "No to the Gehry Towers" and the Argus Forum.

The sport centre sounds fantastic, but as you pointed out, Afters, the parking could be problematic. Not to mention school places...

 

[brightonbluenose]

Flatly in contradiction to the bloody Insight City News.

They keep harping on and on and on about how ugy and unnecessary the King Alfred plans are. I bounced the old thread on here about who supports the development plans, and it's something like 75% on here do support it.

It's a project which brings up the old divides within the city where on one hand you have one group of people who wants to be able to justify the 'quirky, bohemian' tag that the city has (the majority), against the conservative (with a small 'c') group who want everything to remain exactly as it is (the self-important minority).

I include the regressive Regency Society in that latter group.

No-one disputes that the current KA is dilapidated (although this is due to the councils own policy of not properly funding its upkeep!) and that it could do with being replaced.

However, the main opposition is due to the fact that the proposed scheme is clearly a massive overdevelopment to provide enormous profits for Karis and their backers, the giant Dutch financial corporation, ING.

The original design competition had 2 or 3 alternatives to Karis monstrosity - all relatively low-level and much more in keeping with the area. The only way the 'tin-can towers' have got through can surely only be because someones palm has been well and truly greased!!

Btw being 'quirky' and 'bohemian' isnt incompatible with wanting to maintain the present ambience of the city!

BB

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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Blimey Does anyone from HCGSB, in the mid-seventies remember him as a bit of a thug ??

http://www.karis.co.uk/indexFlash.html
Photo in there somewhere. Interweb site is very irritating

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Nice to see the Albion have come out in support.

But in reality, could they do anything but? They're asking to build a brand new, innovative sporting facility for the city, they can hardly turn around and say nothing else should be built.

I'm in favour of the KA development, granted I live nowhere near, but it pisses me right off that NOTHING ever, ever gets built in Brighton without years worth of objections from local NIMBY types, and lets be honest here, most of whose objections centre not around the alleged "spoiling of the Regency skyline", but on the fact that the plans inevitably include high density, low cost housing. Cue shudders amongst the sea-front rich.

The best ones are the objectors to the proposed Marina development- pull the other one guys, what do you think was there before your flats were built? You can hardly move into a brand new apartment development by the quayside, and then complain that someone else wants to build...a brand new apartment development by the quayside.

God help this city in 50 years time. Every other major city in the country will have facilities to die for, while in Brighton the Argus will still be full of letters stating why the Albion should build their proposed stadium in Sheepcote, what to do with the Kingswest building since the Event II and cinema closed in 2015, and why Frank Gehry has no right to interfere in the King Alfred issue, as it's a local thing for local people.

FFS....

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The sport centre sounds great. HOK were involved in the Sydney Olympics!! It is an absolute scandal as to how we are lacking in sporting facilities.

On the planning issues. It has taken 10 years to get....erm....nowhere, with the Brighton Centre. Black Rock is delayed; The Marina is facing problems...

 

[Horsham Gull]

STAND UP IF YOU WANT FALMER!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

All I can say is it's a good job Selma Montford and her cronies at the Brighton Society weren't around in the nineteenth century, or plans for the Royal Pavilion would still be going through a public enquiry now...

 

[Horsham Gull]

why dont we send the plans for the King Alfred to Lewes DC for approval im sure they can delay it by a few decades

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And we thought the Wembley construction was overdue.

If it was round here they wouldn't have even got the foundations dug, due to some ranting old biddy and her sea views

 

[Horsham Gull]

or some stuck up council who just generally dont like us.