Greens plot housebuilding in Hove valley (From The Argus)

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  Fight Back wrote:
  

  Busterblister wrote:
  

  jarmonesque wrote:
  

  Busterblister wrote:
  

  Fight Back wrote:
  Just as long as a new entry road to the A27 is included then this is a good idea. The land is actually privately owned so the it is not an amenity space and the council would make nothing from it's sale. The owners tried to persuade the Albion to build their new stadium there but one of many issues was the price they were asking for the land.

  One of the other issues was that no-one in B&H wanted the stadium built on their own doorstep. That will also be the case with this proposed development.

  Why do you keep on with these falsehoods? The people of B & H overwhelmingly voted yes to the stadium in a referendum.

  The referendum. Interesting. Yes, there was a majority voted in favour. For a site in Falmer. A quick search through the Argus archives will reveal that people didn't want it on their own doorstep though.
  
  Regarding the referendum, it depends on what you mean by "overwhelming". IIRC, 60% voted in favour on a 30% turn out. So 70-75% of eligible voters didn't vote for it. In addition, the rules for the referendum didn't insist on more than 50% of the total electorate voting for the stadium, as appears to be common elsewhere in other referenda. Was the vote particularly publicised? Was there fair and balanced reporting of the "no" side of things in either the council communications or in The Argus, the two most likely sources of information in B&H? Did the council publicise the costs of fighting the battle to the taxpayer? Was the no report from the planning inspectors given due weight, tearing apart as it did the pro lobby arguments? I guess that's open to opinion. In any case, there were and are stringent planning regulations in place to protect that piece of land, and that should have been enough to prevent the stadium going ahead, however, politics won through.
  
  interestingly, during the stadium saga, Ann De Vecchi, although villified by Albion fans saw her share of the vote go up in Lewes. Presumably you think that LDC had no right to object although part of the stadium was being built on their land? They had every right to say no and won virtually every round of the stadium battle except they couldn't persuade the SOS who was allowed to make a subjective judgement.
  
  All as I remember it of course, and I may be wrong.

  Doesn't matter - WE WON ! People like you can continue to stew and be bitter but most of us couldn't care less as we're watching fantastic football in a fantastic ( soon to be bigger ) stadium. Bad Luck !

  Not bitter at all - just don't like the re-writing of history by soccer fans. BTW - I like the use of the word "we"... What exactly did you have to do with getting planning permission? Chant in the street a bit or something?"
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