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Forward this to everybody you know, just copy then paste!!
I just hope Mr Prescott listens!
?
"Hi everyone. I'm e-mailing you - my friends - because I really really really urgently need your help.
The football club that I have supported most of my life is going to fold in a few days time - and I need you to spare a minute to send an e-mail to try and help stop this from happening.
Brighton and Hove Albion fc have been trying to get a new football stadium ever since the Goldstone Ground was sold 7 years ago and the Deputy PM, John Prescott is about to decide whether a new stadium can be built at Falmer in Brighton.
But the Local Plan Inspector has recommended to John Prescott that here fuse planning permission.
We HAVE to convey to him the level of support among football fans (not just Brighton fans) for the new stadium.
As you'd expect, Brighton fans have been writing to Prescott in their thousands already. Can you send a quick e-mail and help me and thousands of Brighton supporters out?
There's a e-mail - and the address - below - it's just a matter of cut and paste!
If you can send this to John Prescott either by post, email or both and then on to everyone in your address book I would be most grateful
Thanks guys. "
email: planning.general@odpm.gsi.gov.uk
The Right Hon. John Prescott MP
Deputy Prime Minister
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH
Dear Mr Prescott
CITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE LOCAL PLAN
I am writing to you concerning the Public Inquiry into a stadium at Falmer, Brighton which you are currently overseeing.
I am writing to urge you to reject the conclusions of the Local Plan Inspector, following his inspection of Brighton & Hove’s Local Plan.
Of particular note, I would like to highlight some important issues that appear to have been overlooked in the Local Plan Inspector’s report. The planning application clearly demonstrated the need Brighton & Hove Albion has for a new stadium. The club is currently playing in a local athletics stadium (Withdean) in a residential area, and only has permission to play there for a certain length of time. For the club to have to remain there would go back on promises made to residents that this was only a temporary arrangement. In addition, the club has to make large payments every match to the stadium’s facilities management company, depriving it of revenue which would be its own were it to have its own stadium.
The report has overlooked evidence of the national importance of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club and its importance to the local economy. The proposed development would provide a huge number of jobs (estimated at 1000) and opportunities for education and skills training.
The report does not recognise the very real difficulties of finding a suitable site in the Brighton & Hove area. The site at Falmer had the least impact of any of the very few potential sites for a stadium in the Brighton & Hove area, particularly regarding transport. The club has put together an innovative sustainable transport scheme, so that the vast majority of fans would arrive by means other than private vehicles. Park and Ride schemes will be located well away from the stadium, and Falmer Station is adjacent to the stadium site. Reducing private vehicle use has always been one of your Government’s main priorities.
Several other sites have been looked at, and have been rejected as unsuitable. The Inspector suggests that the club should look at Sheepcote Valley and the Brighton Station site. Access to the Sheepcote Valley site is poor – there is no railway station nearby, which would make it very difficult to produce a sustainable transport scheme. A stadium on this site would lead to greatly increased traffic in Woodingdean Village, and possibly in Rottingdean, where the roads are very narrow. The Brighton Station site is too small, and has other applications pending on it.
The report does not reflect the overwhelming public support for the stadium project at Falmer and the detailed consultation process that took place prior to selecting the site. 62,000 people signed a petition in favour of the proposed development, and over 45,000 voted in favour in a referendum held by the Council at the same time as the 1999 elections.
I beg you to look beyond the recommendations of the Inspector, and examine for yourself the evidence of the Enquiry. It is there for all to see. Falmer is NEEDED, it is VIABLE and it is the ONLY WAY that a proud football club and its vociferous and extensive supporter base throughout Sussex can continue to exist. As I am sure you are already aware - your decision, and your decision alone, will mean the difference between Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club continuing beyond its proud 103 year history, or it perishing at the hands of you and your Inspector.
For the sake of me and the thousands of fans throughout Sussex and beyond, and the future generations of Albion and football fans, I beg you to make the right choice. The only choice.
FALMER FOR ALL.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Taylor
http://www.northstandchat.biz/index.php?s
I just hope Mr Prescott listens!
? "Hi everyone. I'm e-mailing you - my friends - because I really really really urgently need your help.
The football club that I have supported most of my life is going to fold in a few days time - and I need you to spare a minute to send an e-mail to try and help stop this from happening.
Brighton and Hove Albion fc have been trying to get a new football stadium ever since the Goldstone Ground was sold 7 years ago and the Deputy PM, John Prescott is about to decide whether a new stadium can be built at Falmer in Brighton.
But the Local Plan Inspector has recommended to John Prescott that here fuse planning permission.
We HAVE to convey to him the level of support among football fans (not just Brighton fans) for the new stadium.
As you'd expect, Brighton fans have been writing to Prescott in their thousands already. Can you send a quick e-mail and help me and thousands of Brighton supporters out?
There's a e-mail - and the address - below - it's just a matter of cut and paste!
If you can send this to John Prescott either by post, email or both and then on to everyone in your address book I would be most grateful
Thanks guys. "
email: planning.general@odpm.gsi.gov.uk
The Right Hon. John Prescott MP
Deputy Prime Minister
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH
Dear Mr Prescott
CITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE LOCAL PLAN
I am writing to you concerning the Public Inquiry into a stadium at Falmer, Brighton which you are currently overseeing.
I am writing to urge you to reject the conclusions of the Local Plan Inspector, following his inspection of Brighton & Hove’s Local Plan.
Of particular note, I would like to highlight some important issues that appear to have been overlooked in the Local Plan Inspector’s report. The planning application clearly demonstrated the need Brighton & Hove Albion has for a new stadium. The club is currently playing in a local athletics stadium (Withdean) in a residential area, and only has permission to play there for a certain length of time. For the club to have to remain there would go back on promises made to residents that this was only a temporary arrangement. In addition, the club has to make large payments every match to the stadium’s facilities management company, depriving it of revenue which would be its own were it to have its own stadium.
The report has overlooked evidence of the national importance of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club and its importance to the local economy. The proposed development would provide a huge number of jobs (estimated at 1000) and opportunities for education and skills training.
The report does not recognise the very real difficulties of finding a suitable site in the Brighton & Hove area. The site at Falmer had the least impact of any of the very few potential sites for a stadium in the Brighton & Hove area, particularly regarding transport. The club has put together an innovative sustainable transport scheme, so that the vast majority of fans would arrive by means other than private vehicles. Park and Ride schemes will be located well away from the stadium, and Falmer Station is adjacent to the stadium site. Reducing private vehicle use has always been one of your Government’s main priorities.
Several other sites have been looked at, and have been rejected as unsuitable. The Inspector suggests that the club should look at Sheepcote Valley and the Brighton Station site. Access to the Sheepcote Valley site is poor – there is no railway station nearby, which would make it very difficult to produce a sustainable transport scheme. A stadium on this site would lead to greatly increased traffic in Woodingdean Village, and possibly in Rottingdean, where the roads are very narrow. The Brighton Station site is too small, and has other applications pending on it.
The report does not reflect the overwhelming public support for the stadium project at Falmer and the detailed consultation process that took place prior to selecting the site. 62,000 people signed a petition in favour of the proposed development, and over 45,000 voted in favour in a referendum held by the Council at the same time as the 1999 elections.
I beg you to look beyond the recommendations of the Inspector, and examine for yourself the evidence of the Enquiry. It is there for all to see. Falmer is NEEDED, it is VIABLE and it is the ONLY WAY that a proud football club and its vociferous and extensive supporter base throughout Sussex can continue to exist. As I am sure you are already aware - your decision, and your decision alone, will mean the difference between Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club continuing beyond its proud 103 year history, or it perishing at the hands of you and your Inspector.
For the sake of me and the thousands of fans throughout Sussex and beyond, and the future generations of Albion and football fans, I beg you to make the right choice. The only choice.
FALMER FOR ALL.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Taylor
http://www.northstandchat.biz/index.php?s
