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23 hours ago, Dave Jones said:

Isn't it  around now that BE & the council go to court to resolve the dispute over the security of the stadium. ?

Or the lack of it!!!

 

http://www.savecoventryspeedway.com/news.php?extend.128.1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Question answered.:)

The main issue here is that whilst BE have been messing about with this, more stadium damage has occurred , but  I suppose it suits their "master plan"

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I have to admit the article in the SS is not good reading.   It appears BE  have all bases covered..  

Hopefully, the planners don't base their decisions on the viability of just one sport .  

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I thought the article was excellent. It shows what a little digging can do, who has provided what information & how some of the things they claim may not be as it they seem.

Put it this way if the speedway was making money then I would hate to guess what the stox made, You have seen pictures of the world final and even other meetings and the place is packed.

 

 

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1 hour ago, adonis said:

With a site as large as Brandon , and a proposal for 130 houses , does anybody believe the affordable housing ploy ? 

“Affordable housing” always makes me giggle. The implication is all other housing is “unaffordable” :lol:

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4 hours ago, adonis said:

With a site as large as Brandon , and a proposal for 130 houses , does anybody believe the affordable housing ploy ? 

If they get permission and build those 130 houses you can pretty much guarantee that they will try to get more housing on the site in future. 

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15 hours ago, adonis said:

exactly what happened on the school field opposite  my house , appllication  for  280 houses rejected , revised  to 150  accepted ,   built on half the site  . 2 years later application for 280 house on the remaining land   rejected , revised to 160 , accepted , so 310  built  on land that was rejected for 280 . 

In the plans all the houses are on one side of the site the other side is walkways, grass, ponds etc. It's obvious what they will do.

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I have just read both the Turley report from the planning application, and the Peter Oakes article in Speedway Star. 

He (Oakes) wastes no time in bringing Mr Horton's role to attention. Whilst not able to make any direct accusation or inference, the article raises in ones mind the possibility that Mr Horton is acting in collusion with Brandon Estates by providing financial information to Turley, and by running a Coventry team at Leicester, both of these providing substantial planks for Turley and BE to use within their application.

Mr Sandhu comes across as someone who, although capable of operating the stock cars company, and perhaps the speedway company prior to Mr Horton taking over, was out of his depth as stadium owner.

Hopefully Peter Oakes's report will reach the planning committee. It's just a shame that no local press did anything along the same lines but sadly those days seem to be gone.

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3 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said:

I have just read both the Turley report from the planning application, and the Peter Oakes article in Speedway Star. 

He (Oakes) wastes no time in bringing Mr Horton's role to attention. Whilst not able to make any direct accusation or inference, the article raises in ones mind the possibility that Mr Horton is acting in collusion with Brandon Estates by providing financial information to Turley, and by running a Coventry team at Leicester, both of these providing substantial planks for Turley and BE to use within their application.

Mr Sandhu comes across as someone who, although capable of operating the stock cars company, and perhaps the speedway company prior to Mr Horton taking over, was out of his depth as stadium owner.

Hopefully Peter Oakes's report will reach the planning committee. It's just a shame that no local press did anything along the same lines but sadly those days seem to be gone.

As I said early, both Coventry papers should be 100% behind their city’s sports teams but neither are really making any effort at all to help a campaign bring back either sport. Two words for both Coventry papers. Utterly useless.

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On 12/02/2018 at 11:00 AM, SCB said:

“Affordable housing” always makes me giggle. The implication is all other housing is “unaffordable” :lol:

 

Hmmm ..... it used to make you giggle because you couldn’t afford “affordable” housing!  Welcome to the bourgeoisie, SCB! :)

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3 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

As I said early, both Coventry papers should be 100% behind their city’s sports teams but neither are really making any effort at all to help a campaign bring back either sport. Two words for both Coventry papers. Utterly useless.

There used to be a good investigative journo who worked on one of the papers (Cov Telegraph) and produced some highly embarrassing information about the activities of Coventry Council when the Ricoh Arena fiasco was in full flow. There was a story that the paper's editor was heavily "leaned on" by bigwigs at CC and the journo had to curtail his investigations or at least their publication. Obviously this is Rugby Council, and such journos are being pushed out of local papers by their corporate owners.

There was also I seem to recall a story a few years ago by Private Eye about Framptons (BE's estate agents, by co-incidence), which alleged that a prominent Rugby Borough councillor was rather more closely linked to Framptons than perhaps ought to have been the case, in relation to a house building project in the Borough at the time.

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3 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

As I said early, both Coventry papers should be 100% behind their city’s sports teams but neither are really making any effort at all to help a campaign bring back either sport. Two words for both Coventry papers. Utterly useless.

Hugely unfair on the Cov Observer. They've done a lot for the campaign and one of the journalists  ( just recently left) is/was part of the SCS group.

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12 hours ago, hammer1969 said:

www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/diy-sos-bid-save-brandon-14285947

Article in Coventry Telegraph tonight

With Buildbase as the Bees last sponsors, one would hope that they would be more than a help with the materials. Could be a problem with trespass though.

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3 minutes ago, ABS said:

With Buildbase as the Bees last sponsors, one would hope that they would be more than a help with the materials. Could be a problem with trespass though.

This is about showing that the stadium can be restored back into a functioning stadium and a decent cost as BE claim it's not viable too do that. 

Of course if Sandhu ever gets the chance to fulfil his promise (if he means it) then a good chunk of that would come from him. 

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On 12/02/2018 at 3:46 PM, adonis said:

exactly what happened on the school field opposite  my house , appllication  for  280 houses rejected , revised  to 150  accepted ,   built on half the site  . 2 years later application for 280 house on the remaining land   rejected , revised to 160 , accepted , so 310  built  on land that was rejected for 280 . 

Happens in Hull too, problems which prevent the building projects like shops are somehow quickly and easily solved when it comes to housing.  And some of the existing traffic nightmare bottlenecks / 'snaking carparks' where new house building is taking place have to be seen to be believed....

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20 hours ago, Hamish McRaker said:

There used to be a good investigative journo who worked on one of the papers (Cov Telegraph) and produced some highly embarrassing information about the activities of Coventry Council when the Ricoh Arena fiasco was in full flow. There was a story that the paper's editor was heavily "leaned on" by bigwigs at CC and the journo had to curtail his investigations or at least their publication. Obviously this is Rugby Council, and such journos are being pushed out of local papers by their corporate owners.

There was also I seem to recall a story a few years ago by Private Eye about Framptons (BE's estate agents, by co-incidence), which alleged that a prominent Rugby Borough councillor was rather more closely linked to Framptons than perhaps ought to have been the case, in relation to a house building project in the Borough at the time.

Correction. The estate agents in question was Horts. 

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16 hours ago, martinmauger said:

STOP PRESS, though admittedly of limited relevance, 135 house to built next to Craven Park.  The current residents, some rare spieces of newts, will apparenetly be transferred to nearby ponds.  Poor newts....

 

 

What a shame the Coventry Bees were not named the Coventry Newts as Brandon estates would have to have found the Newts a suitable new home before their plans for Brandon could be considered for approval.

BTW my golf club had a similar challenge before being allowed to build a new hole. It took two years for the newts to be moved and development could start. (apparently you could not move them during the breeding season) 

Meanwhile, good luck to all of you involved in "Saving Brandon" - Finding Newts may help?

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