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Post by downthelane on Dec 23, 2016 5:15:12 GMT
When is the decision being made?
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Post by downthelane on Dec 24, 2016 7:15:35 GMT
Does no one know then?
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Post by Woodenose on Dec 24, 2016 9:46:39 GMT
Press Release from Worcester City Council For immediate release: 12 October 2016 Search for new home for Worcester City Football Club put on hold until Perdiswell decision The working party aiming to bring Worcester City Football Club back home to the city has agreed to suspend its work until a decision is made on the planning application to build a stadium at Perdiswell. The application is expected to go to Worcester City Football Club’s Planning Committee in the next few months. A range of sites have now been investigated by the working party, with several that had previously been ruled out being looked at again. I think that February has been mentioned somewhere I will try and find it
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Post by downthelane on Dec 24, 2016 10:08:04 GMT
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Dec 24, 2016 11:35:15 GMT
But who are the council dealing with? The club or the trust? If all the trust's hard work results in Hampson and Boddy taking over a nice new stadium do the trust just fall in line? If the trust get the stadium will it be on the assumption that a Hampson led Worcester City runs it?
Even if the application succeeds there will be a mess if this board are still in charge.
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Post by downthelane on Dec 24, 2016 12:27:50 GMT
Being a joint application you would assume the Council are dealing with both the Club and the Trust, but the application was Trust-led to begin with, and the Club were asked to become involved to assist with part-funding.
Hate to break the news to you but Boddy hasn't been involved with the Club for a long time.
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Dec 24, 2016 13:12:48 GMT
No, I hate to break the news to you. Boddy attends most games and has Hampson's ear as an "adviser". If you think the old guard have left the building you are sadly mistaken. What do you think the AGM voting fiasco was about?
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Post by downthelane on Dec 24, 2016 16:24:12 GMT
He attends some games, and in a capacity for another club.
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Post by downthelane on Dec 24, 2016 19:13:05 GMT
I think the local journalist at the Worcester News ought to be investigating why it is taking so long (years) for the planning application to be decided. This is the biggest decision for the football cluband is crucial to its survival plans.
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Post by downthelane on Jan 11, 2017 22:38:03 GMT
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Post by Croc on Jan 11, 2017 22:57:47 GMT
As far as I can read there - it's just for the erecting of advertising signs - nothing more
APPLICATION A16M0084: DISPLAY OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PERDISWELL LEISURE CENTRE, BILFORD ROAD
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Post by downthelane on Jan 11, 2017 23:16:01 GMT
So what is happening with the main application?
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Post by althom on Feb 7, 2017 16:46:12 GMT
City Council urges Worcester City Football Club and Supporters’ Trust to work together
Published Date 07/02/17 12:37 Worcester City Football Club and the Club’s Supporters Trust have been urged to work together to secure an agreement for where the Club will play matches in the 2017/18 season as soon as possible.
Council Leader Cllr Adrian Gregson called on the two organisations to hold talks on the issue, as time is running out. The Club is currently using Bromsgrove Sporting’s ground for home matches, having moved out of St George’s Lane in 2013.
Cllr Gregson made his appeal at the latest meeting of the working party that is exploring options for how the Club can return to Worcester.
The working party meeting, chaired by City Council Managing Director Sheena Ramsey, was attended by city councillors and members of the Club’s Supporters’ Trust. The Football Club sent their apologies as they were unable to attend.
The working party also heard that the planning application jointly submitted by the Club and the Supporters’ Trust for a new permanent ground at Perdiswell is making progress. Only one document is now outstanding and the Trust told the working party that it would be submitted very shortly. This should clear the way for the start of a formal 21-day public consultation on the application before it goes to the Council’s Planning Committee for a decision.
Cllr Gregson said: “The working party is dedicated to exploring options for the Football Club returning to Worcester and we have undertaken a thorough and extremely useful review of sites in the city.
“However, with deadlines fast approaching the more immediate challenge is making sure the Club have somewhere to play next season. The Council is urging the Club and the Trust to talk to each other as a matter of urgency to make the necessary arrangements.”
Mark Newell of the Supporters’ Trust said: “I was pleased to be able to inform the working party that there is now just one document still to be submitted for the Perdiswell planning application, the final part of the design and access statement. This will be with the planning department very soon and we will be hoping for a decision on the application as soon as possible after that.”
The latest working party meeting was attended by Sheena Ramsey, City Council Managing Director; Tim O’Gara, City Council Deputy Director of Governance; Rob Crean and Mark Newell of the Football Club’s Supporters’ Trust; Cllr Adrian Gregson, the Labour Leader of the City Council, and Cllr Louis Stephen of the Green Party.
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Post by althom on Feb 7, 2017 17:00:12 GMT
"The Football Club sent their apologies as they were unable to attend."
So now we know, the Board of Directors has no intention of supporting coming back to Worcester. Just their intentions and plans for the Football Club are to gradually wind the club down! Quite what benefit they would gain for shareholders is open to conjecture!
Meanwhile the long suffering supporters are expected to keep spending their hard earned cash attending games!
A total rip off of faithful supporters!
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Post by downthelane on Feb 7, 2017 18:50:59 GMT
Am I missing something here? The football club have somewhere to play next season - it is called Bromsgrove. What is Gregson talking about?
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Post by oxford on Feb 7, 2017 18:57:56 GMT
"The Football Club sent their apologies as they were unable to attend." So now we know, the Board of Directors has no intention of supporting coming back to Worcester. Just their intentions and plans for the Football Club are to gradually wind the club down! Quite what benefit they would gain for shareholders is open to conjecture! Meanwhile the long suffering supporters are expected to keep spending their hard earned cash attending games! A total rip off of faithful supporters! [/quote I agree which is why I spend most of my time and cash at Sutton these days!
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Post by Croc on Feb 7, 2017 19:28:51 GMT
Am I missing something here? The football club have somewhere to play next season - it is called Bromsgrove. What is Gregson talking about? Oh - look who has crawled out of the woodwork again...
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Post by downthelane on Feb 7, 2017 19:35:55 GMT
Awww have you missed me?
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Post by The Verner on Feb 7, 2017 20:17:01 GMT
Has that been confirmed yet ?
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Post by downthelane on Feb 7, 2017 20:21:09 GMT
Well, no one has categorically stated that they have missed me
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Post by creaner on Feb 7, 2017 20:47:46 GMT
Well, no one has categorically stated that they have missed me I categorically state I have missed you.
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Post by downthelane on Feb 7, 2017 21:17:26 GMT
It is nice to be made to feel welcome
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Feb 7, 2017 21:25:09 GMT
Am I missing something here? The football club have somewhere to play next season - it is called Bromsgrove. What is Gregson talking about? Yep, I have to agree, whats he rattling on about?? Glad you are back downthelane, idiotic administrators and their childish bans!
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Post by Woodenose on Feb 8, 2017 10:03:46 GMT
Just a rumour I heard yesterday that City are thinking of taking voluntary relegation and dropping 2 divisions. As I say just something I overheard.
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Post by The Verner on Feb 8, 2017 10:45:02 GMT
Just a rumour I heard yesterday that City are thinking of taking voluntary relegation and dropping 2 divisions. As I say just something I overheard. Probably just a rumour taken from Hampos programme notes with regards to budget caps etc
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Feb 8, 2017 11:16:29 GMT
I was talking on Saturday about how when Hampson first came in, he was very open, provided info, and was keen that shareholders and supporters were fully aware of what was happening at the club. He understood that hearing bad news is better than hearing no news. At an AGM, Andrew Watson told us that the club would be publishing an abbreviated management accounts report online to keep fans in touch, and involved. All good intention, and a change from the closed minds of his predecessors. So what went wrong? What changed? And why has Hampson and the Board become even more insular and secretive than before? So secretive that even Board members aren't kept up to speed with what is going on at the club. All we have got now is rumours, and the trouble is that whether rumours are true or false, they damage the club more than real news.
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Post by cloud on Feb 8, 2017 17:11:54 GMT
Just a rumour I heard yesterday that City are thinking of taking voluntary relegation and dropping 2 divisions. As I say just something I overheard. The only reasonable argument I heard for staying at this level, up to now, was that we needed to stay in National North because it will open up funding for a new ground. If this is going to be £significant, then I can understand it - otherwise....just have a playing budget we can afford, we'll then find our natural level (probably relegation). No need for voluntary relegation.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Feb 8, 2017 17:41:54 GMT
Rumours, rumours, who needs rumours? They are self-defeating. What we want are facts and we've been given an update above on the facts of where the planning application (after all the substance of this thread) has got to. So let's have no more rumours.
Clearly Councillor Gregson is talking nonsense about us having nowhere to play next season. Shows how much he's followed events.
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Post by harley on Feb 8, 2017 19:46:11 GMT
Just a rumour I heard yesterday that City are thinking of taking voluntary relegation and dropping 2 divisions. As I say just something I overheard. Funny that (and apologies to Tim for continuing the rumour mill) but I heard a couple of weeks ago that with the reduced costs of playing at Bromsgrove, higher than budgeted for attendances and money from sponsorship (Pinches) and the Gold Bond draw finances were in a lot better shape than expected and any operating loss this season would be a lot less than expected.
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Feb 8, 2017 20:08:40 GMT
Phew, thats good to hear, everything coming up roses!
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