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Training Ground Exhibition Tomorrow
Posted on: Mon 23 Jan 2012
By Will Jago
Albion Chief Executive, Martin Perry, and Head of Operations, Richard Hebberd, together with members of the design team, will be showcasing the club's new Training Ground and Academy at a public exhibition to be held at Lisher Road, Lancing tomorrow - 2pm until 10pm.
Local residents are invited to come along and view the proposed designs for the state-of-the-art facilities to be built at New Monks Farm, which are hoped to be in operation for the beginning of 2014.
The exhibition will take place at a vacant office unit, near 10 Lisher Road (BN15). Local residents have also been sent leaflets inviting them to the event.
Training Ground Exhibition Tomorrow
Posted on: Mon 23 Jan 2012
By Will Jago
Albion Chief Executive, Martin Perry, and Head of Operations, Richard Hebberd, together with members of the design team, will be showcasing the club's new Training Ground and Academy at a public exhibition to be held at Lisher Road, Lancing tomorrow - 2pm until 10pm.
Local residents are invited to come along and view the proposed designs for the state-of-the-art facilities to be built at New Monks Farm, which are hoped to be in operation for the beginning of 2014.
The exhibition will take place at a vacant office unit, near 10 Lisher Road (BN15). Local residents have also been sent leaflets inviting them to the event.
) with a guy from the architects answering questions. I only stayed for around 10 minutes, most of the conversation seemed to concentrate on the access issues and the fact that it will be accessible from Mash Barn lane. One guy said 'why don't you just pay someone a million pounds for the land so it can be accessed from the a27' another couple said' well if it's gone this far there is nothing we can do about it' and one guy even agreed with me when i said i thought it was a great idea and would put lancing on the map! Lots of people not happy about the fact that it won't be accessed from the A27 and I kind of see their point. One guy who was not happy said, when asked if he would rather his house overlook the training pitches or 600 houses said 600 houses! He left shortly after that comment. Martin Perry was there, as were several coppers, but that was about it! There was a book filled with sketches, maps, plans etc which I flicked through which all looked very pretty, nothing that we haven't really seen before. I did take a couple of pics but only on my iphone and it was surprisingly dark in there!
I live on the Mash Barn estate just around the corner from where the exhibition was held, My house backs onto the field they want to build on but sadly the accademy will be at the other end of the field to where I live so I wont be able to watch the players train. You've got it spot on with your description. I spoke to a number of locals while I was there and nobody I spoke too is against the accademy being built they're just concerned if it happens it will open the floodgates for the rest of the land being developed into housing. They're more concerned with protecting the strategic gap than stopping the Albion.