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Post by pedant on Jan 4, 2017 12:15:46 GMT
North Ferriby's website has their ground capacity as 2700 which looked about right when we visited earlier this season.
If that's correct how did they survive the 3,000 capacity requirement by end of March for the National North? Let alone get promoted.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 13:24:18 GMT
I don't know.
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Post by porkystone on Jan 4, 2017 13:51:26 GMT
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Post by toonarmy on Jan 4, 2017 18:10:16 GMT
I have just had a quick look at the planning department and there is no application in with the local authority
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Post by soulstone on Jan 4, 2017 18:17:27 GMT
In the Non League Paper it said the league were worried about them and Solihull not having their grounds up to standard by the end of March.
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Post by toonarmy on Jan 4, 2017 18:57:02 GMT
if they haven't put in for planning yet, I reckon there is little chance of planning getting through and getting any relevant stand built
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 19:15:38 GMT
In the Non League Paper it said the league were worried about them and Solihull not having their grounds up to standard by the end of March. Solihull got the Springfield End so I'd assume that'll bump them over the line. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 0:44:23 GMT
In the Non League Paper it said the league were worried about them and Solihull not having their grounds up to standard by the end of March. Solihull got the Springfield End so I'd assume that'll bump them over the line. The every reliable (??) Wikipedia quotes Solihull's ground as only having a 3070 capacity. If they have not made their planning permission yet can we get a few Hollingbourne NIMBYs to object to hold up the progress? This way they should automatically get demoted from the NL at the end of the season thus reducing the points based relegation spaces to only 3 teams? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 11:59:49 GMT
The stand is already up. They're just waiting on a safety certificate from the council. They've also got another smaller stand "camera side" so you can't see it on highlights that they've put in. They're fine for capacity. I'm guessing nobody has updated Wiki yet.
NFU it seems are down regardless though. Which is a shame as they were a fantastic (in a quirky way) away day.
In terms of relegation spaces I'd like to throw Torquay imploding into the hat. They were recently taken over by asset strippers who have a history of shafting clubs to get hold of their grounds for development....
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Post by pedant on Jan 5, 2017 13:41:05 GMT
I was told by a 'local' that Torquay's ground was not their own - the suggestion being it was the local Council's.
There was an article around at the time we went down there that the club was available to buy for 'less than the price of the average semi'. Not buying the ground as part of the deal would help explain that price tag. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 19:16:47 GMT
Just had a brief read through a few posts on their forum and things don't sound good.
It appears that the council own their ground and there's a meeting coming up later in the month where the fans suspect the council will be asked to sell the ground to GI (?), who apparently bought Torquay recently (but whom the fans don't appear to trust!).
Nobody seems to know what's going on. Some are hoping that GI are doing the decent thing and buying the ground as part of a long-term plan to revive the club (ultimately moving to a new ground). But others (the majority?) think that GI (who have a history of asset-stripping football clubs) want to buy the ground to sell it for housing, promising to move TU to a new ground, which will mysteriously never appear.
Others point out that if Torquay council don't sell the ground to GI, they may give up and piss off - leaving TU massively in debt (mostly to GI), and effectively shafted.
All sounds horribly familiar. And if there's one thing our history has taught us it's do not sell your ground before you are absolutely sure you're going to get a new one.
It's hard to believe this sort of thing is STILL going on. But, if anything, it seems to be even more common these days. When will people learn?
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