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Sainsburys Marshmills built completely on Marsh reclaimed land. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4995193 and the little map on the right shows just how close it still is to the tide line. Brain cells do come in useful when used properly. And as you are well aware the Speedway track is just across the road still on the same MARSH LAND.

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Sainsburys Marshmills built completely on Marsh reclaimed land. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4995193 and the little map on the left shows just how close it still is to the tide line. Brain cells do come in useful when used properly. And as you are well aware the Speedway track is just across the road still on the same MARSH LAND.

 

see babs if you had gone to school today you might have learnt that today :rofl:

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and the supermarket in question is different to the one that is bidding for the old bowling site dah brain cells in use to realise there is more than one supermarket chain and of course they could build at SBA if sufficient land drainage was put in (something that was offered to your Dad at the cost of a coupole of hundred pound but he declined the offer)

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Bearing in mind Boris Johnson wants to build an airport in the middle of the Thames estuary and Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok (honestly it's not a lap dancing thing) airport was built with land reclamation in the middle of the sea. I shouldn't think that a bit of flooding is a problem for civil engineers to overcome?

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Believe what you want!!!!! Why would anyone build on land that floods? Doh use your brain

babs as keyham has demonsrated you can build on land that is prone to flooding,surely an apology from your good self wouldnt go amiss or you going to go quiet for a while like you usually do when your proven to be wrong!
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I'm not denying it was done when they built Sainsburys. That is not what this discussion is about its about a proposed possible supermarket being built at the SBA it's rubbish nothing but rumours. The college will make a decision one way or the other end of. But at this moment in time, my father still runs and is the promoter for Plymouth.

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I'm not denying it was done when they built Sainsburys. That is not what this discussion is about its about a proposed possible supermarket being built at the SBA it's rubbish nothing but rumours. The college will make a decision one way or the other end of. But at this moment in time, my father still runs and is the promoter for Plymouth.

correct at the moment hope fully not for much longer
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Sainsburys Marshmills built completely on Marsh reclaimed land. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4995193 and the little map on the right shows just how close it still is to the tide line. Brain cells do come in useful when used properly. And as you are well aware the Speedway track is just across the road still on the same MARSH LAND.

 

Your right Dave, brain cells do come in useful when used properly, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME :lol:

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http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Consortium-bid-Devils-home/story-17165943-detail/story.html

The consortium have been offered a year's lease but say it is not long enough to properly develop the club's home track, the St Boniface Arena.

 

"The college were looking to sell the land and what we don't want is to have a one-year lease and have to move on again.

As you can now see their intent in black and white. You can lease it for one year but after that, one way or another we are selling the land and we have interested parties that we have already been talking to, hence our actions of save our track.

 

No doubt the facts will be disputed by a certain person, but facts are facts.

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No doubt the facts will be disputed by a certain person, but facts are facts

 

 

No she lives in her own little bubble and everyone around her is telling lies, one day she will wake up and smell the coffee!

 

On a more serious note would have thought that a one year lease is a no brainer, not enough time to sort anything out down there and as the paper says there wouldnt be enough time to recoup the licence money etc let alone doing anything to all the delapitated infra strucure. Fingers crossed the college will sell to the consortium for a reasonable price and we can look forward and get back the severel hundred supporters that wont come back again while the present promotion has anything to do with it

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http://www.thisisply...tail/story.html

The consortium have been offered a year's lease but say it is not long enough to properly develop the club's home track, the St Boniface Arena.

 

"The college were looking to sell the land and what we don't want is to have a one-year lease and have to move on again.

As you can now see their intent in black and white. You can lease it for one year but after that, one way or another we are selling the land and we have interested parties that we have already been talking to, hence our actions of save our track.

 

No doubt the facts will be disputed by a certain person, but facts are facts.

 

I take it Dave when they say they want to sell the land that will include the rugby pitch, and if it do that will double the area the track is on, thats a big piece of land to make a great speedway arena, i just hope they get the deal they want from the college.

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I refer all reading the forum to my post of Oct 21st - "

 

Any developments regarding Plymouth speedway need to be seen along with the widely reported financial issues reported in the press towards the end of 2011 for the landowner. If I had surplus land and a shortfall I'd be looking to rationalise my assets, serve reasonable notice using any potential break clauses in the leasing arrangements and sell the land to the highest bidder ( probably a supermarket chain...). So disapointing as it is - with 2 years to run on the lease, the landowners might seem to have some reasonable grounds for calling it a day and advising speedway that they should be grateful for what they've had. Add in a bit of concern about the nature of the promotion and its hard to see speedway in Plymouth having a long -term future... "

 

So no surprises in the information thats surfaced in the press today, - the next point to face up to is " who has got the deeper pockets - supermarket chains ? housing developers or the " 4-man consortium". Sad to say I think we all know the answers........pure commercial reality. Like the County Ground in Exeter it might be possible to limp on for the odd year or two but ....

 

And the most pleasure I could take from this would be if I was totally wrong..........

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