For Havering Council read Basildon Council

[BOROMAN]

As many of you may already know. Basildon United will have to eventually vacate their Gardiners Close ground due to a compulsory purchase.

 

There is a stadium right in the middle of Basildon called Gloucester Park. Basildon have asked the council if they can play there. Seems to make sense middle of town, good transport links, good facility with potential.An ideal chance for Basildon United to develop as a club and give a big town like Basildon a decent football team.

 

Anyway the Council have said no (not sure why) in typical negative local council fashion. Instead they have offered them a piece of land in the next field to Bowers & Pitsea's ground. Which has not gone down well with BUFC or Bowers & Pitsea. When I last spoke to my contact at Bowers, they were mounting a legal challenge to this.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

A legal challenge?????!?!?!?!?! WHAT?

 

Can someone please remind these clubs that they are in the ESL and not fighting for European places!!!

 

Goons.

[coach et 64]

i think they are right!it's like if your local council gives a plot of land to romford next to the bridge to build a new ground.... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

I think the word GIVE would be the best one to focus on, don't you all think?

[Chopper]

Just give them Gloucester Park nice little ground.

 

Typical council dont give a toss !!!!

[Eastside Urchin]

have to agree,problem is most councils don't really wants a football club in their town as all the councillors seem to be stuck in the 70's and think it will kick off every week

[and1inthetree]

whereas it only kicks off every other week as they play away from home.

 

all councils are the same. even arsenal said that if they knew the crap islington were going to give them, they'd either not have bothered with moving or would have moved out of the borough.

[coupwotcoup]

Surely it is a case of what you are as opposed to who you are...ie no council would have the temerity not to find a well-supported Premiership/Championship club (The Franchise excluded) a new ground, whereas 99% of councillors in Havering, Basildon and any other metropolitan areas, who have a vested interest in football, probably don't even know their local club exists...

[Eastside Urchin]

sort of agree,but if that football club caused mayhem around the borough then they may be opposed

[Chopper]

Agree there Coup. If you asked every councillor if and what there local football club is called none would know.

 

ESU is right all councillors are stuck in the dark ages and could not give a rats [****!!****].

 

They would rather build flats etc.

[Chopper]

Coup i went past the old romford ground yesterday at collier row. I see the lights are still up, another waste of a ground.

 

Is it just empty coup or are they planning to build on it ?

 

How about Romford trying to get back in there ?

[Eastside Urchin]

they want to hijack our ground <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[coupwotcoup]

Tis now the local land fill site.. The mad man who bought the land (we think) put up all sorts without planning permission, and after we left I think there were a few cup finals played there, but now he has turned it back into a dump site.

Shame, even though it was a sh!t hole, it was our kind of sh!t hole...and a home (well kind of, but that is another story).

[Chopper]

As i say the lights were still up and the road was just blocked off, so i don't think it is a dump site coup mate.

 

Might be worth somebody having a look into mate!

 

I know it was not the best ground in the world but as you said it was your own.

[Chopper]

it would be nice to see that ground up and running again.

[coupwotcoup]

The bloke who owns it is as mad as a balloon..promised us the earth when he first bought it, but problems re planning permission etc soon kicked in and that was that.

Not been up there for years but I am sure that avenue has been travelled down in our pursuit of a stable base..

PS No silly jokes re stables, Easty, Westy, Tree et al....

[Chopper]

Just an idea mate. I go past it a fair bit and it's a shame nothings happening there.

 

Maybe have a word coup just to see if it has been explored.

[Eastside Urchin]

get back in that ground and we can all go to that place down the road for pool and bowling before games(if we play you again!)

[and1inthetree]

shitty limits?

[Eastside Urchin]

thats the one,seem to remember battering your ar$e at pool down there one night last year mate!!!