cyclone Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Although this subject has been briefly discussed in the Edinburgh 2018 thread, as this does not relate to actual team building, and in view of its long term importance to the future existence of The Monarchs, I have therefore created this new topic on this specific subject. Local Armadale Cllr Stuart Borrowman on Facebook on 28 January at 07:19 posted the following:- Council officials are minded to approve the application for 2.7ha of housing at Armadale Stadium.Officers say the capacity issues at Armadale PS(Primary School) have eased and the stadium is not classified by SportScotland as an outdoor sports facility and "doesn't have the appearance or function of open space." However Contact has been made with sportscotland on this issue and their response was :- “sportscotland is aware of the planning application and the potential loss of this facility. We do appreciate that this would impact on the current users of this facility, however sportscotland is not a statutory consultee in this instance, and therefore has no formal remit to comment on the planning application. We don’t define what is or is not a stadium, that is done by planning legislation, sportscotland don’t have a recognition criteria for stadia.” Furthermore on sportscotland website the Master List of Sporting Activities and Governing Bodies Recognised by the Sports Councils ( https://sportscotland.org.uk/media/2846/list-of-uk-recognised-ngbs-and-sport-list-october-2017.pdf ) at the bottom of page 3, Speedway is recognised by sportscotland under the auspices of the Scottish Auto Cycle Union As the above conflicts with Councillor Borrowman’s public statement re sportscotland, perhaps resident West Lothian Speedway fans could either contact both Mr Borrowman and West Lothian Planning Department, or their local Councillor, to ascertain the source of the misleading statement. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Cheers Cyclone - I missed this on the Edinburgh thread. Good luck Monarchs! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Housing is a massive problem in this country. Why are not we building on the green belt? 90 percent of the land in this country is not built on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icicle Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 It's called Ecology & saving the planet.you twit! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenga Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 14 hours ago, JeremyCorbynFan said: Housing is a massive problem in this country. Why are not we building on the green belt? 90 percent of the land in this country is not built on. i see its your turn for use the brain cell . when does that phillip person want it back ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff100 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 15 hours ago, Icicle said: It's called Ecology & saving the planet.you twit! Luv it when people say this creature walked the planet 300 millon years ago but we cant build on this field because it might destroy the.planet! Its been here for along time and it will still be here long time after we have gone ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Build on the green belt...why should we care about the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Baldyman said: Build on the green belt...why should we care about the future. Because we care about now? At some point your house was there and was probably a lovely fields. Why does it matter if the trees and grass areas are in the middle of, for example, Cardiff or on the outskirts? Why cram more houses into what is current Cardiff thus increasing the traffic and thus the pollution and killing stuff when you could build on the outside of Cardiff and not have the traffic problems? The little birdies and the newts will still have the parks in Cardiff to live in. A house has the same footprint whether its built in park, old factory or the greenbelt, so its a crap argument that you can't build on the greenbelt. Obviously you can't just randomly build single houses in the middle of the greenbelt but extending existing towns, cities and villages done properly will actually result in less pollution and harm to the environment. As pointed out, over 90% of land in the UK is not built on, even if we doubled the amount of houses, parks, roads and places of work without any inefficiencies it would still only use up 16% of land in total. With modern efficiency it could be less than that. We don't even need it doubling. Just increase it by say 20% and we've still used less than 10% of available land. As for running out of green spaces, take a look at this....https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/google+maps/@51.7510555,-2.4281219,137881m/data=!3m1!1e3 Tell me we're running out of green space! All I can see it green! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 I know I'm in the minority...but I only care about now..cos now is when I'm alive. The more houses that are built maybe better for me....Maybe if there are loads more houses then maybe my rent my stop going up all the time..or maybe just maybe the price of houses may come down enough so I could afford to buy one and get a mortgage. Very selfish I know...but that's the way I roll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenose Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Just a bit of input from me,..don,t like speedway tracks closing,..still miss the old Perry Barr track use to have a regular crowd of about 6000.Always a great atmosphere!!!! Anyway why don,t they try and sell all the houses/flats that are for sale (as advertised below ... today !!). before they build any more??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Bluenose said: Just a bit of input from me,..don,t like speedway tracks closing,..still miss the old Perry Barr track use to have a regular crowd of about 6000.Always a great atmosphere!!!! Anyway why don,t they try and sell all the houses/flats that are for sale (as advertised below ... today !!). before they build any more??? Armadale is approx 30 miles from Edinburgh though!!!!!! Edited February 7, 2018 by Fromafar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenga Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 i heard the edinburgh promotion are trying to buy the houses next to the race track just so they can build a proper race circuit only one small problem with building houses on green belt sites is that concrete and bricks will not give us our fresh oxygen on a daily bases that the human race needs to survive . without oxygen , we all die , eventually ! wont bother J.C.F. though . i cant remember a blow up doll ever giving birth . same goes for that phi;;ip person . men dont have wombs ! ! ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedcarRacer Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Haven't I read before that Edinburgh were hopeful on a venue near the airport a few years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 4 minutes ago, RedcarRacer said: Haven't I read before that Edinburgh were hopeful on a venue near the airport a few years ago? Think that fell through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 45 minutes ago, Fromafar said: Think that fell through. At Ingliston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 10 hours ago, Tsunami said: At Ingliston. Yip.Dont think they want it as Sporting facilities, houses or Airport Extension seems more likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 6 hours ago, Fromafar said: Yip.Dont think they want it as Sporting facilities, houses or Airport Extension seems more likely. Don't they also have shows or a market on the land ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, Tsunami said: Don't they also have shows or a market on the land ? The Royal Highland Show is held there.I might be wrong but I think their Society may own part of the land,there have various events held there, Concerts and Raves.There used to be a big Sunday Market but think that stopped afew years ago.It was Motor racing circuit inside the Show ground in the 60's.There have been afew attempts to make it a sports venue over the years but has come too nothing. Edited February 8, 2018 by Fromafar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Shoe Posted February 8, 2018 Report Share Posted February 8, 2018 On 2/6/2018 at 7:55 PM, JeremyCorbynFan said: Housing is a massive problem in this country. Why are not we building on the green belt? 90 percent of the land in this country is not built on. There are numerous brownfield sites within green belts which could be built on. Maybe a lot of the problem is that most people have a romantic idea of what it is. They probably see rolling hills with trees and green pastures when in reality a lot of it couldn't be further than away from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snackette Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) On 07/02/2018 at 4:00 PM, Bluenose said: Just a bit of input from me,..don,t like speedway tracks closing,..still miss the old Perry Barr track use to have a regular crowd of about 6000.Always a great atmosphere!!!! Anyway why don,t they try and sell all the houses/flats that are for sale (as advertised below ... today !!). before they build any more??? That's rather a dangerous comment. Are you suggesting that once they flog all the properties in Armadale, that planning permission should be granted? On that basis, the Monarch's may need a new home sooner rather than later!!! Edited February 12, 2018 by Mr Snackette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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