Stadium decision day for North Somerset
Here is the appeal for participation from the Ashton Vale group:
Dear all
WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER NOW
Re: 9th December North Somerset Town Hall, WSM, 2.30pm
This is the next and perhaps most important round of applications. This Cabinet Meeting will decide if Bristol City Football Club can have access through North Somerset road to the new stadium. A no, would have a dramatic impact on the current plans and would delay the development. We would like as much support as possible, we had a great turn out from people for the Stadium Decision on 4th November, but more than 50 people came from other groups to support us. I hope we will do the same for them when their developments reach the same stage. But we need more people to attend this next meeting. Please don’t leave it up to everyone else.
We have to make more representations at Weston. It would be great if more people would make statements and stand up and tell the Council why it is so important that the stadium is not built. At the last meeting the stadium had lots of people standing up and saying how great it would be, but it relied on a few of us to state our case.
Peter Crispin has been a great support to us, but we need more people to attend and who are willing to speak. Anyone can make a statement. We must make sure that we have at least as many people against as the stadium have for.
I know it’s a difficult time of day, but perhaps worth taking half a day’s leave if you can. It’s so important and has been the one thing that has brought the community together.
If you are willing to read out a short statement please let me know asap so we can get it to the Council on Time.
Please come if you can, once the field is gone, it’s gone forever.
Attached is a picture of the Proposed Stadium, if you increase the size you will soon see just how awful this is going to be and why we have to do everything possible to stop it.
We are also sending out leaflets about The Ashton Park Development.
Look forward to hearing from you. If people need help with transport we can look into this.
Thanks Trish
HOLA Minutes 8 Sep 09
HOLA
(Hands off Long Ashton)
Notes of meeting held on 8th September 2009
Present: Rod & Sally Sterland, Ted Baker, David & Angela Neale, Brian Matthew, Bill Roberts, Sarah and Bob Hughes, Trish Young, Phil Cunliffe, Moira Hunt, Sue Ashby, Steve Parnell, Adam Clark, Glenn Farall, John Chapman
1. First time attendees were welcomed and Trish Young and Brian Matthew introduced.
2. Apologies received from Chris Wilmot, Christine Johnson, Harvey Lilley, Liz Fox and Jeremy Bristow.
3. Minutes and actions from last meeting noted as follows:
· David had not contacted the Forest of Avon but would do so.
· 1500 leaflets had been delivered in the village, Rod had only collected 40 from the Post Office.
· 8,000/9,000 had been received by SOGS.
4. Feedback from recent events noted as follows:
· Rod and Sally had helped hand out letters at the Balloon Fiesta on the Friday. Most people were supportive and there were a lot from different parts of the country.
· Rod had attended another SOGs meeting which had largely been devoted to reviewing past and future action. It was felt that some groups needed more help with documentation.
Planning applications:
· Bristol Airport – the deadline for comments had passed. It was reported that Bristol City Council were against expansion due to noise and carbon emissions.
· Stadium – the official deadline for comments had passed but comments could still be made up to 3rd November.
· Ashton Park – the plans had been submitted, Rod would email the number to everyone.
· Failand – the plans had been submitted by the speculators but no number allocated yet.
· University land – public consultations being held on Thursday and Friday in the British Legion from 3.00-7.00 and on Saturday in the Jubilee Pavilion from 11.00-5.00.
Action: Rod to email planning number for Ashton Park development
Bill to put something in Parish Magazine and Long Ashton & Failand News
5. Trish Young talked about the Ashton Vale Heritage Group and gave an update on actions taken to date, in particular the transport assessment which had been carried out by an independent transport expert. This had negated the Tesco and stadium assessment and proved that their figures had been altered by 75%. The cost of building the new stadium was £65,000,000, £40,000,000 of which was being provided by John Lansdown. The club needed the rest from the sale of the existing stadium to Tesco. She said it was vital that pressure was put on North Somerset Council not to pass the plans for the access. If access was not allowed from the David Lloyd end then the stadium could not be built.
6. Rod reported that there was £30 in the kitty, a collection raised a further £45. To be used for posters.
7. Next actions:
· Stadium protest – a couple of running clubs were running from the Bird in Hand across the stadium land at 7.00pm on Thursday and on Saturday TESNO and BERATE were holding a protest march against Tesco building on the old stadium site, starting at the Hen & Chicken at 11.00 am.
· Membership – more people were needed on the membership list, preferably half of the properties in Long Ashton in order to have a bigger response to planning applications.
· Suggestions – send posters to all supporters to display in a front window; have people outside the Jubilee Pavilion on Saturday to hand out leaflets and sign up as supporters, encourage Long Ashton residents to object to stadium.
Action: Adam to design leaflet and send to Rod
Sarah to look into producing posters. John Chapman to give her details.
Rota for Saturday:
11.00-12.00 Sarah and David
12.00-1.00 Rod and Sally
1.00 -2.00
2.00 -3.00 David and Angela
3.00 -4.00 Adam and Bill
4.00 -5.00
Action: Rod to take banner down to Jubilee Pavilion at 11.00
Rod to email supporters to fill vacant time slots
8. AOB:
Suggested asking people with experience of planning to help, such as Adrian Reed, David Handchet and Peter Wray.
Action: Bob to give Rod contact details for Adrian Reed and David Handchet and Ted to give details for Peter Wray
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