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Post by Woodenose on Apr 17, 2018 9:45:19 GMT
Meanwhile, Hampson said discussions were ongoing with regard to the third and final public consultation over City’s proposed new stadium at Parsonage Way. The club’s top brass is set to meet with Worcester City Council officers and representatives from the Worcestershire FA on Friday to discuss progress. Having proposed tweaks to the position and perimeter of the ground and an increase to the parking capacity, revised plans had been set to go on display in February or March but a date has yet to be set. “That will be arranged by the architects. We hope to know more after the progress meeting,” said Hampson.
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Apr 17, 2018 10:06:02 GMT
Meanwhile, Hampson said discussions were ongoing with regard to the third and final public consultation over City’s proposed new stadium at Parsonage Way. The club’s top brass is set to meet with Worcester City Council officers and representatives from the Worcestershire FA on Friday to discuss progress. Having proposed tweaks to the position and perimeter of the ground and an increase to the parking capacity, revised plans had been set to go on display in February or March but a date has yet to be set. “That will be arranged by the architects. We hope to know more after the progress meeting,” said Hampson. So already two months late with a consultation. Considering the unrealistically tight timescales that the club is trying to work to at Parsonage Way, I'm surprised that they've got two / three months to lose! And they are still waiting for those pesky reports to come in, weren't they saying the same thing back at the end of last year? Who is actually running this project? The architects ? The football club? The council? Worcestershire FA? And why would Warndon Parish Council have to be in talks with Worcester City Council? Worcester City Council have made it very clear that they are not promoting the building of a football club at Parsonage Way, and that the P&R funding is to determine how the site could be developed in the future. All very up in the air, with no clarity and no communication. I wonder when the Chairman is planning to share any information with those who elected him, and those he represents, the shareholders?
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Apr 18, 2018 10:02:40 GMT
As usual, more smoke and mirrors speak with little detail from Hampson - again via the Worcester News. No reports, no consultations, no costs - just more of the same old bullshit.
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Apr 18, 2018 11:42:07 GMT
Hampson does everything via the Worcester News , even though some time ago he said that the Board prefer not to do their business via the media! An about turn there then! He does it as he knows that it's a safe media, no-one at the WN is going to challenge anything he says, and of course, its a one way media, so no dialogue. Anyone on the Board with balls would be in dialogue with the people that they were elected to represent, and that's the shareholders. Even the fans deserve far far better than this.
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Post by Dodger on Apr 18, 2018 11:50:06 GMT
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, any costs can't be just about slapping a football pitch onto an old field once the sheep have been removed. There are all the associated infrastructure costs such as the provision of electricity, gas, water, and sewerage. Who pays? New cabling and pipeworks would need installing but where is the nearest connectable points? Up near the M5 roundabout area? Think of the disruption whilst trenching works take place. Also, didn't I read somewhere that the PW site would benefit the local community? So presumably that also means creating adequate footpath/s, installing street lighting together with a pedestrian crossing to allow for public safety etc....
No doubt all have been considered by council and WCFC experts so we are ready to rock 'n roll.
Dodger.
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Apr 18, 2018 11:57:49 GMT
Who knows? We certainly don't. The level of communication from the Board is now at an all time low. Its way worse than in the days of Dave Boddy. At least we had shareholder meetings where Nunnery Way was presented. And Dave and Mike Sorensen had the bottle to come along to Supporters Trust meetings. You ask the question Who pays? Well it isn't the council, as I have it on record that they will not be funding the football clubs bid at all. Its not the Worcestershire FA, they are on record as saying that their involvement would purely be as the lessee ,sub-letting to the football club. So it must be the football club.
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Post by Woodenose on Apr 20, 2018 11:59:24 GMT
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Post by maybe1day on Apr 20, 2018 16:48:38 GMT
Fingers crossed, I hope this appeal wins... well done to all involved, at least you are trying to bring the club back home to a sensible and good location for all city fans. A ground for the whole of worcester community not a sh** hole at parsonage way..which won't benefit anyone.
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Post by Woodenose on May 3, 2018 7:22:59 GMT
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on May 3, 2018 10:57:52 GMT
Why does he rattle on about the Supporters Trust getting engaged when it comes to funding? The Supporters Trust can't do that with the constitution as it is, and the chairman refuses to consider constitutional change. We've explained this over and over again, he simply either won't listen, or doesn't understand. Anyway, hasn't Wilcox already sorted out the grant funding? He keeps telling the Worcester News that the Supporters Trust will help with grant funding, he hasn't even asked the Supporters Trust to be involved in Parsonage Way in any way at all!! So the Perdiswell plan has no planning (permission), no confirmation on land transfer, and he can't see where the money will come from? Meanwhile, Hampson tells us that at Parsonage Way........there is no planning (not even an application), no confirmation on land transfer, and he can't give any indication where the money is coming from !!
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Post by alwaysnextyear on May 7, 2018 8:08:19 GMT
see comment of April 18
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Post by Dodger on Jul 6, 2018 16:05:41 GMT
Has the Parsonage Way 'master plan' now evaporated in the early July sunshine?
Dodger.
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Post by Croc on Jul 14, 2018 15:27:47 GMT
Posted by Malvern Council member Lucy Hodgson on the Warndon Villages (snigger) Community Group on Facebook:
“I understand that there have been some findings as a result of the feasibility studies carried out on Parsonage way. It is sketchy at the moment but I believe the survey of the land of Parsonage Way, which is wanted for a football ground, has been found to be the habitat of the long eared bat, which is light sensitive and in decline. This is exactly the reason why I voted at the Policy and Resources Committee to fund these studies. As soon as I know anything more.”
No bats on Perdiswell though...
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Jul 14, 2018 23:31:12 GMT
This posting from Lucy Hodgson is very odd. The ( protected species ) long eared bats habitat is generally open woodland such as on Parsonage Way. Why is this odd ? The suggested proposed field for WCFC is next door to a wood. It appears from Lucy Hodgson that bats are there on PW. The other side of the wood along Parsonage Way ( top of Plantation Drive ) had planning approval granted by Worcester City planners for a 24/7 distribution centre. Won't bats be sensitive to their lights as well , as despite bats being observed in that field ( as per the attached ), planning permission was granted ! planning.worcester.gov.uk/OcellaWeb/viewDocument?file=dv_pl_files%5CP17P0247%5CParsonage+Way+Warndon+-+Preliminary+Ecological+Appraisal+v2.pdf&module=plIs this Lucy Hodgson attempting to portray herself in a good light for wasting up to £ 100 k of rate payers money on a failing limited company which has managed to lose £ 290 K in one season ? Is this Lucy Hodgson distancing herself from WCFC ? Does only serious money talk with Worcester City Council planners ( WCFC only have a dwindling insignificant pot of cash ) ? Is the City Council playing politics yet again with WCFC ? We all await Lucy Hodgson's and Anthony Hampson's comments with bated breath. No bats on Perdiswell though...
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Post by Woodenose on Jul 20, 2018 17:38:47 GMT
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Post by Croc on Jul 20, 2018 17:43:33 GMT
No **** Sherlock
Could have told you that without wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money
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Post by Tim Munslow on Jul 20, 2018 19:02:31 GMT
Well, that's us finished then: I see no future for the club at all now. It's just a matter of time now, so I shall go to matches knowing that any one of them could well be the last time I see the club play.
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Post by Croc on Jul 20, 2018 19:19:00 GMT
Well, that's us finished then: I see no future for the club at all now. It's just a matter of time now, so I shall go to matches knowing that any one of them could well be the last time I see the club play. PERDISWELL Get behind the efforts to do something instead of meekly embracing defeat without a fight. You’re doing exactly what Hampson, Wilcox, Hallmark, Gareth Jones, Chris Mitchell and the Tories want you to do - silently going along with their plans
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Jul 20, 2018 21:24:12 GMT
This cannot be a surprise to anyone with a brain.
Worcester News 22.03.18 - barely 4 months ago
The words of Anthony Hampson
" Parsonage Way will happen, it will carry on and keep going whoever gets involved. I am fairly convinced that if I step down it will happen it will happen with the support of Worcestershire FA and Worcester City Council."
" We will be going to Parsonage Way."
As I have said many times before, Hampson is either a fool, a liar, totally deluded, or just not very good as a Chairman.
He and his Board have followed the previous Board in killing the club. The club was used as a trojan horse to open up Parsonage Way for the development of houses, a shabby retail park, and an unwanted 24/7 distribution centre. The supreme irony in all this of course, is that the Planning Inspector years ago said that the only development on that strip of land had to be a " landmark football stadium " !
Money and big business has always talked in Worcester and with its planners.
By the way, as a rate payer, what a wonderful waste of 57 k to state what everyone already knew !
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Post by oxford on Jul 21, 2018 19:21:15 GMT
Well I never.Better get down and support "the lads"while you can.Each to their own ,but I just cannot comprehend why anyone sets foot in the place.
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Post by Croc on Jul 22, 2018 7:24:44 GMT
Our exalted Councillor trying to spin this on Facebook:
“This is the report coming to the Committee and has been written by officers, the second recommendation is That the Committee endorses the conclusions in this report that no further work should be undertaken to establish whether Parsonage Way is a suitable location for WCFC. Yes it for the Committee on the night to agree to this and I would be very surprised if they went against officer advice.”
Lucy obviously thinks that her Tory buddies would never throw out an application if the planning officers said that it should definitely be approved...
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Post by Dodger on Jul 22, 2018 7:47:38 GMT
Our exalted Councillor trying to spin this on Facebook: “This is the report coming to the Committee and has been written by officers, the second recommendation is That the Committee endorses the conclusions in this report that no further work should be undertaken to establish whether Parsonage Way is a suitable location for WCFC. Yes it for the Committee on the night to agree to this and I would be very surprised if they went against officer advice.” Lucy obviously thinks that her Tory buddies would never throw out an application if the planning officers said that it should definitely be approved... It's heartening to know that coucillors would not go against planning experts regarding planning applications........oh,hang on.....Perdiswell springs to mind. Dodger.
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Post by Down The Pan on Jul 22, 2018 11:20:57 GMT
This was always a win-win for the city council. If recommendations were made that the site was feasible for a football ground, WCFC would never have been able to afford to go forward with a planning application, let alone build. And if the recommendation was that the site was not feasible, the City Council can claim the political high ground by saying "we were fully committed to making this happen, we even spent £57,000 to help the football club, but c'est la vie" And either way, there was never going to be a football ground built on Parsonage Way. we all knew that from the start. Apart from the desperate and dysfunctional lot in the Boardroom.
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Jul 22, 2018 17:38:04 GMT
The board knew this would fail. They just needed a diversion to prevent Perdiswell succeeding. The club was dead 4 years ago.The only way to get football back to Worcester is to start with a new club and forget shambolic bunch.
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Post by Woodenose on Jul 22, 2018 17:45:58 GMT
I wonder if there will be a comment from our leader or one of his minions this week, it might be that he has had enough and is going to walk away?
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Post by Mark on Jul 22, 2018 21:08:26 GMT
I wonder if there will be a comment from our leader or one of his minions this week, it might be that he has had enough and is going to walk away? I wish he would..........and take the rest of them with him
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Post by downthelane on Jul 22, 2018 21:26:54 GMT
All this forum talk over the past few years about setting up a new club ... yet not one of you has done anything to set up this new club ...
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Post by The Verner on Jul 22, 2018 21:36:33 GMT
Crack on the DTL
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Post by Croc on Jul 22, 2018 22:11:06 GMT
All this forum talk over the past few years about setting up a new club ... yet not one of you has done anything to set up this new club ... All these years of kicking the can down the road... and yet no AGM... Come on Colin - pull the finger out...
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Post by downthelane on Jul 22, 2018 22:11:42 GMT
No because I don’t think it is a good idea, but others have so they can crack on, but if course they won’t cus it’s all just talk.
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