Petition: New Stadium - Grimsby Town

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Any chance I can get some extra signatures for my club to acquire a new stadium? We have been trying for the last 20 years, but setbacks due to location, nimby's, funding, club decline etc have set us back.

This is an official petition made by Grimsby Town Football Club today, which will be handed into our local council for planning permission.

Only take a few minutes, would appreciate your help.

Circa 500 permanent jobs, and 500 temporary construction jobs. For the long term survivability of the club, not only will it help the club, it will help with community projects in Education and Health.

Link >> http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/north-east-lincolnshire-council-support-for-a-community-stadium-and-leisure-complex-at-peaks-parkway

Thankyou.

Community Stadium and Leisure Complex at Peaks Parkway

Together we can make this happen for the Community of North East Lincolnshire

Community Leisure Complex comprising

• 14000 seat stadium and home of GTFC

• all weather multi-use pitches

• health and wellbeing centre

• education and training centre

• multi-sport potential for rugby, netball, cricket

• car parking (street sports)

• Grimsby Town Sports & Education Trust centre - 2000sqm

- Football in the Community sports participation

- Futsal programme

- NEET provision

- Inclusion & disability projects

- Health & Education

- 163,000 annual aggregate engagement hours

Commercial enabling development comprising

• hotel and restaurants

• petrol filling station

• retail

Economic benefits

• safeguarding GTFC for future generations - 150 jobs

• construction employment - 500 jobs

• new permanent employment circa 500 jobs

• inward investment of £80m

• business centre - 3500sqm

• new business opportunities

• 2000 space car park plus coach spaces (potential Park & Ride)
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Sounds great but surely everyone would want this to happen but it's just the funds that is causing the problem.

Unless signing a petition would get more funding from somewhere?
 
SideWinder said:
Sounds great but surely everyone would want this to happen but it's just the funds that is causing the problem.

Unless signing a petition would get more funding from somewhere?
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The club has interested parties once planning permission is firmly in place, which is a retail outlet I believe is Waitrose.

Councillor De Freitas has gone around local residents and got a petition he has handed in against it with over 2,500 signatures it's his local constituency, hence the official response from the club.

Around 15 years ago the very same Councillor did all in his power to prevent a 24,000 seater stadium from being included in the local plans around 5 miles from the current plan, which slowed down the process, we got relegated from the championship, through to non-league, then the recession hit etc, and also a rival propety developer decided to have their own plans for a retail park not far away, but that didn't happen, we had a multi million pound sponsorship deal with the American oil producer ConocoPhillips for naming rights i.e Conoco Stadium.
 
Gilly said:
Why is he so against the development then?
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Basically it's his council ward, and when the stadium was in the local plan at the other site, he just so happend to the the councillor for the other area ward.

Other things, it would be 450 metres from the nearest house, and a distance from a cemetary, another matter with it being council land some of the land has allotments on it.

Link >> http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Grimsby-Town-defends-petition-favour-new-Peaks/story-21068633-detail/story.html
 
I don't understand why that would turn him against it. Surely as a coun. his MO should be to listen to the people as to what they want, and do the right thing for the area?

[edit]as I thought, it's because residents believe it would spoil the tranquility of the cemetery on the plot of land in question. You, however, painted a picture of a councillor against a development just cos, which isn't true.
 
Well that's one perspective of looking at it. Yes he will listen to what the people want in the vicinity, but it woudn't matter where the stadium is, he is against one being built at all, he doesn't understand that for any club to move forward they need a new ground, he keeps going on about redeveloping one of the oldest grounds in the UK, infact one stand is the oldest their is if we was in the league, older than Fulhams.

No decent parking, houses about 10ft away, no training facilities, no gym, no extra revenue streams, everything needed is in a new ground.

Basically he went round every house in the area and got a petition against it with around 2500 signitures, I'm willing to bet if people went around with a peition for it, a lot of people will just sign it who put against it, as people just will sign anything at the door. I know quite a few who didn't sign it to.
 
Hey guys, got around another 30 days till the petition is handed in, it's been almost a year since I originally posted this, so if anyone else can sign it, I would appreciate it,only takes a minute - many thanks. :)
 
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