my next door neighbour made an interesting point just now....

[the full harris]

he said:

how come the sainsbury's etc. development is allowed to be built on the brighton station site, when it will be used a lot more often than a football stadium without changes all the roads going to the site and huge public enquiries etc.?

 

[London Irish]

Brownfield site.

 

[the full harris]

yes, so why didn't we build our stadium there then?

 

[Easy 10]

1. Too small.
2. Traffic

Plus by the time the Inquiry was up and running, there was already a planning application in place for that site.

 

[the full harris]

1. oh, fair enough.
2. that was kind of my point, the sainsbury's etc. development will surely cause more traffic?

 

[clapham_gull]

Also the traffic wouldn't turn up and leave in one small window of time.

Unless of course the Sainsbury's was in Croyden and they had value beans at 2p a can or something - that would case mayhem.

 

[Easy 10]

2. Not on the scale of (potentially) an additional 22,000 descending on Brighton Town Centre to converge for 3pm kickoff on a Saturday, and all leaving at 5pm. Its bad enough on a Saturday in Brighton as it is, specially when theres a sale on at Primark.

 

[oldham gull]

1. oh, fair enough.
2. that was kind of my point, the sainsbury's etc. development will surely cause more traffic?

The point about traffic is surely that sainsbury's wouldn't have 22,000 customers all arriving and leaving at the same time.

 

[Lammy]

You can't fit 22,000 people in Sainsbury's....

 

[oldham gull]

You can't fit 22,000 people in Sainsbury's....

You can if you stack them really well!!

 

[the full harris]

oh alrigh then.

cheers.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

My Ist Post !!
I want to no how they managed to get the Body shop built on the edge of the downs in a similiar position to Falmer and also the recent Rolls Royce Factory at the base of the downs with no problems. so how do you reckon they would anwser that.
Right image ? or funny hand shakes ?