Ground Development

[Blocky]

Totally agree.  They really do need to stand up and explain what is going on, and soon.

[Valentines Park]

Why change the habit of several lifetimes?

[bwildered]

Thanks guys on views and comments regards development has non attendee. One wonders if the ground in future will be fit for purpose, and perhaps relocation would be the final solution .

[nat]

Thanks guys on views and comments regards development has non attendee. One wonders if the ground in future will be fit for purpose, and perhaps relocation would be the final solution .

Might as well relocate ... the size of the playing area will be a joke. No wonder PG doesn't think spinners have a big role to play at ECCC.

[squarelegumpire]

Thanks guys on views and comments regards development has non attendee. One wonders if the ground in future will be fit for purpose, and perhaps relocation would be the final solution .

If someone who can ask the right questions with an air of authority could go to the January meeting it would be a Good Thing! I must say I thought that having an adequate playing area was always part of the contract spec. I’ve always been disappointed that there was going to be no more room for spectators, apart from from the windows of the flats! Which will be, apart from the price of the flat, free! And one’s got to have somerwhere to live!

[essexfan548]

The new date is no better really is it 

I expect some details about what is going on in the November members mailing.

We've heard nothing since we were e-mailed an 'opportunity to purchase' a flat some years back ...

[Slogger]

I vaguely recollect a communication which said that the cricket committee were content with the reduction in size of the playing area. Personally I think the proposal of ten or so years ago to move to Springfield with a new station on the railway was the best way forward but I think that died when planning permission for floodlights was given. I think there was an associated undertaking that the ground had to be used for cricket going forward, which of course prevents the club selling up and moving.

[squarelegumpire]

The following is posted on the Essex CC Facebook page.

WATCH | Keep an eye out for a big interview with Chief Executive Derek Bowden next week on Essex TV. Derek will cover the 2014 season, an update on the Ground Development, and aspirations for 2015

[Andy]

I vaguely recollect a communication which said that the cricket committee were content with the reduction in size of the playing area. Personally I think the proposal of ten or so years ago to move to Springfield with a new station on the railway was the best way forward but I think that died when planning permission for floodlights was given. I think there was an associated undertaking that the ground had to be used for cricket going forward, which of course prevents the club selling up and moving.

I dimly remember hearing on BBC Essex, when Chelmsford City were planning to move, that the land off New Writtle Street had to be used for sports/leisure purposes. I assumed that a developed would take it and stick in a small snooker club whilst turning the rest into flats...

[squarelegumpire]

I vaguely recollect a communication which said that the cricket committee were content with the reduction in size of the playing area. Personally I think the proposal of ten or so years ago to move to Springfield with a new station on the railway was the best way forward but I think that died when planning permission for floodlights was given. I think there was an associated undertaking that the ground had to be used for cricket going forward, which of course prevents the club selling up and moving.

I dimly remember hearing on BBC Essex, when Chelmsford City were planning to move, that the land off New Writtle Street had to be used for sports/leisure purposes. I assumed that a developed would take it and stick in a small snooker club whilst turning the rest into flats...

Cynical, Andy, cynical.   

Not an unreasonable supposition, though, IMHO!

[Mog]

The following is posted on the Essex CC Facebook page.

WATCH | Keep an eye out for a big interview with Chief Executive Derek Bowden next week on Essex TV. Derek will cover the 2014 season, an update on the Ground Development, and aspirations for 2015

Yes, I've just visited the ECCC website to find no sight of the promised BIG interview with the CEO. *Note to the Club, if you signpost a feature, on social media or anywhere else and state it will be in a time specific slot, i.e. "next week", it may prove efficacious to actually provide that content within that period.

Maybe DB is too busy studying the latest designs for the pavilion that was cited as the excuse reason for the postponement of the Members 'Consultation', two days after it was advertised last week, following its widespread derision on this very message board. The Club continue to do themselves no favours in terms of credibility!

[Andy]

...I can see a great PR opportunity for the younger Eagles here: 're-design the County Ground and first prize is you'll get to see your design realised, erm, sometime this decade' a la Blue Peter.

Runner up prize is a night out in Chelmsford with Larry and the coaching team.

Third prize, two nights out in Chelmsford with Larry and the coaching team.

I can see certain members of this BB getting their crayons out as I post this. Just as soon as they've located their lost dummies.

[firehazard]

...I can see a great PR opportunity for the younger Eagles here: 're-design the County Ground and first prize is you'll get to see your design realised, erm, sometime this decade' a la Blue Peter.
...

"Here's one I made earlier..."

I can just see papier-mâché and sticky-tape models of the County Ground being made by kids all around the country, à la Tracy Island from a good few years back. Essex could start something here.

[Andy]

...I can see a great PR opportunity for the younger Eagles here: 're-design the County Ground and first prize is you'll get to see your design realised, erm, sometime this decade' a la Blue Peter.
...

"Here's one I made earlier..."

I can just see papier-mâché and sticky-tape models of the County Ground being made by kids all around the country, à la Tracy Island from a good few years back. Essex could start something here.

Ahh, but the Tracy family had Brains.

[afinetickletoleg]

I can see certain members of this BB getting their crayons out as I post this. Just as soon as they've located their lost dummies.

So these sort of digs are ok? I just want to understand the 'rules' here.