Where will people go?

[Rangdo]

In the nimby section of the Falmer articles in the Argus one of the residents is quoted as saying "If we keep filling in spaces like this, where will the lungs of the city be? Where will people go to escape for a moment?".

I'd be interested to know how much time Falmer residents spend "escaping" in that crappy, noisy little field.
Also, I think I would be more inclined to describe Falmer as the pain in the City's backside rather than the lungs.
Any suggestions as to where else people could go to escape. I'll start. Stanmer Park!

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Hove Park
Preston Park
Hove Recreation Ground
Wild Park
Withdean Park
Devil's Dyke
Braepool Fields
The Level
Queens Park
Downs above Hollingbury.

There. Is that enough?

 

[Wardy]

In the nimby section of the Falmer articles in the Argus one of the residents is quoted as saying "If we keep filling in spaces like this, where will the lungs of the city be? Where will people go to escape for a moment?".

I'd be interested to know how much time Falmer residents spend "escaping" in that crappy, noisy little field.
Also, I think I would be more inclined to describe Falmer as the pain in the City's backside rather than the lungs.
Any suggestions as to where else people could go to escape. I'll start. Stanmer Park!

Wasnt one of their objections that Falmer was not part of the City? Now they are saying that it is one of the City's lungs. They cannot have it both ways.

 

[Rangdo]

Re: Re: Where will people go?

Wasnt one of their objections that Falmer was not part of the City? Now they are saying that it is one of the City's lungs. They cannot have it both ways.

It depends which suits them best at the time.
For it to be a lung it has to be part of the body so the best way to do that would be to join it to the city with a stadium

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Hove Park
Preston Park
Hove Recreation Ground
Wild Park
Withdean Park
Devil's Dyke
Braepool Fields
The Level
Queens Park
Downs above Hollingbury.

There. Is that enough?

Plus:-

Sheepcote Valley
Toad's Hole Valley
Waterhall

 

[Strike]

The Steine? Theres a nice green bit there as well.

 

[Yorkie]

I thought their village was idyllic and beautiful so why do they need to 'escape' from it.

It's usually those who live in a concrete jungle in the centre of a city who need to escape.

 

[beorhthelm]

what winds me up about this, is the fact that its just a bloody field. it is a simple, boring, brown field (in the literal sence). I flew over it in the middle of june and it was dark brown, presumably recently ploughed. Its certainly not downland, no wild flowers, rare voles or the such.

 

[Rangdo]

what winds me up about this, is the fact that its just a bloody field. it is a simple, boring, brown field (in the literal sence). I flew over it in the middle of june and it was dark brown, presumably recently ploughed. Its certainly not downland, no wild flowers, rare voles or the such.

Exactly. It's a farmers field but in the article the woman made out like it was picturesque and in isolation where people take quiet walks.

 

[Easy 10]

I wouldn't describe that that field in Falmer as a lung. Its more of a bumhole really.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Sheepcote Valley is of more use as a wildlife reserve. I know this as a birdwatcher. In Spring and Autumn the area where the motorbike scramblers go is used by migrant birds. I have seen large numbers of wheatears in Spring (a bird that breeds in the north of England, Wales and so on), and one or two wrynecks in Autumn. The bit down the bottom also gets rarities. Maybe this needs mentioning in the enquiry, though I would not get the Sussex Ornithological Society in, as they would probably oppose Falmer.

 

[Gully]

We could form our own ornithological society, sod the RSPB, we are the Seagulls after all...

 

[timseagull]

If they are that desperate to escape France is just over the channel plenty of space there. Now bog off and let us have our stadium.

Failing that. Chanctonbury Ring, Ashdown Forrest, or Beachey Head....we could give them a helping hand....