e-mail and letter send. Don't know if this is useful, but I have also put the following e-mail together to send to anyone I know that has an interest in football to try to summarise the current situation and get their support...
Dear all,
As many of you know, I have been a Brighton fan for many years now. It now looks like they could well effectively be put out of business in the next week or so. The background to this is a proposal to build a new stadium in Falmer, just outside of Brighton to enable the club to move away from a temporary stadium at an athletics track, where they have been stuck loosing money for the last 5-6 years. This situation followed the sale of the old ground, the Goldstone, by the former directors of the club in a deal that left the club without a home.
The planning application to build the new stadium has been in called in for a public enquiry after being accepted by Brighton city council and is awaiting a final approval from the deputy prime minister, John Prescott. However, yesturday afternoon, the local planning inspector issued a report on the new "City of Brighton and Hove Local plan". This report totally disregards the compelling case for the new stadium, the local support (including a petition with more than 62'000 signitures) and proposes other sites which are completely unsuitable for a stadium. The timing of this report, to coincide with the deliberations of the deputy prime minister on this issue could prove to be a crucial blow in the efforts by the football club and its supports to build the new stadium. This in turn would almost certainly mean the club going out of business, given the amount of time, effort and money that has been put into the current application over the last few years and the inviability of their current temporary home.
With this in mind, I am supporting an initiative by the football club to bombard the deputy prime-minister with letters and e-mails of support. The e-mail address to use is planning.policies@odpm.gsi.gov.uk, and the postal address is:
Mr John Prescott,
Deputy Prime Minister
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH
If you have the time, any support in terms of letters and e-mails would help. At very least, please forward this mail on to as many football supporting friends as you can to raise awareness of what has become a very critical issue for Brighton and Hove Albion football club.
Dear all,
As many of you know, I have been a Brighton fan for many years now. It now looks like they could well effectively be put out of business in the next week or so. The background to this is a proposal to build a new stadium in Falmer, just outside of Brighton to enable the club to move away from a temporary stadium at an athletics track, where they have been stuck loosing money for the last 5-6 years. This situation followed the sale of the old ground, the Goldstone, by the former directors of the club in a deal that left the club without a home.
The planning application to build the new stadium has been in called in for a public enquiry after being accepted by Brighton city council and is awaiting a final approval from the deputy prime minister, John Prescott. However, yesturday afternoon, the local planning inspector issued a report on the new "City of Brighton and Hove Local plan". This report totally disregards the compelling case for the new stadium, the local support (including a petition with more than 62'000 signitures) and proposes other sites which are completely unsuitable for a stadium. The timing of this report, to coincide with the deliberations of the deputy prime minister on this issue could prove to be a crucial blow in the efforts by the football club and its supports to build the new stadium. This in turn would almost certainly mean the club going out of business, given the amount of time, effort and money that has been put into the current application over the last few years and the inviability of their current temporary home.
With this in mind, I am supporting an initiative by the football club to bombard the deputy prime-minister with letters and e-mails of support. The e-mail address to use is planning.policies@odpm.gsi.gov.uk, and the postal address is:
Mr John Prescott,
Deputy Prime Minister
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH
If you have the time, any support in terms of letters and e-mails would help. At very least, please forward this mail on to as many football supporting friends as you can to raise awareness of what has become a very critical issue for Brighton and Hove Albion football club.