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Offline Valentines Park

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2015, 05:17:29 PM »
Perhaps he could respond as he regularly lurks on this forum?

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2015, 07:34:21 PM »
After the pompous announcement that the cricketing part of the development was to be completely redesigned as the club didn't want to go into debt in order to have a new ground, Im wondering if wewill even have a ground in the future. We have a derailed development that has stuttered and stalled from day one, a highly dubious plan for umpteen flats that appear to have one side hanging over parkway and the other at short mid off, no definitive plans for any of the cricket related facilities and a further undermining of members benefits with parking charges and a first come first served car park to be shared with every visitor to the city. By the time the club has gone bust  thanks to the fat controllers (aka Sheikh East's) hubristic scheme  we will have no county championship and cricket will be T20 only. Then it will be just one  pragmatic step to using the Olympic stadium for an East London francise and ECCC will be a thing of the past.

The David East vanity project.
As for the car park, assuming it ever gets constructed, will provide first refusal to residents of the one/two or perhaps just the singular utilitarian apartment  block. Should be an interesting experience when the flat occupants return home to find their parking space has been requisitioned by an Essex member. Perhaps it could add an extra dimension to Friday night experience at 'Fortress Chelmsford'? ;)

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2015, 08:55:27 PM »
I understand that the Council gave the Club the New Writtle Street public car park with an agreement that there would be the equivalent number of spaces for public use in the multi-storey car park which is part of the approved plans for the ground. No doubt the Council expected that the multi-storey would be built and in use by now. It would be interesting to know how much revenue the Council has lost since it gave the car park away. As a resident of Chelmsford, with no prospect of the multi-storey car park ever being built, it looks a very bad deal for the Council Tax payers. Probably also explains why we have to pay to park at Meteor Way now.

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2015, 06:12:29 AM »
Good point - yet another aspect of this long running saga

The e mail mentioned realigning the club's facilities. Another round of meetings with some members during the winter?

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2015, 07:36:20 AM »
Good point - yet another aspect of this long running saga

The e mail mentioned realigning the club's facilities. Another round of meetings with some members during the winter?

THere’s usually a mem,bers forum in early November. Anyone still got their newsletter from March?

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2015, 10:03:59 AM »
Seems that Paul Grayson thinks that the ground development  - or lack of it - is why we can't hold onto players.

I don't agree with all of the points in the article - but there may be a small element of truth in this!

See

http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Tired-ground-hold-Essex-says-Grayson/story-27766964-detail/story.html

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2015, 07:11:49 PM »
As this saga rumbles endlessly on and the prospect of a new pavilion and other spectator/player facilities becomes ever more distant, it's worth recalling what we were told way back in the last decade about the business case for the project-which was that the club would have much better facilities for banqueting, conferences etc and therefore be able to maximise its non-cricketing income. Now that we seem destined to have much smaller facilities than the original plans, if indeed we have any at all, where does the business case now stand? Or will we find, unknown years hence, that we have lost assets (the sites of the flats) and virtually all our parking space, in return for very little if any tangible improvement? I asked a question on these lines at the meeting last January and didn't hear an answer.

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2015, 08:19:48 PM »
Has everyone noticed that the plans of how the spectator areas will look is a secret.

In the photograph of David East with the model of the development. There was a massive pavilion and a few rows of seats at the river end with blocks of flats behind them.

Apart from the car parking, what is the betting that parts of the new pavilion will be off limits to ordinary members.

The banqueting suite was to be in the corner by the community stand.

Remember the old boys network at the club is above you.

You do not become a name at Lloyds.

Enter property deals with someone whose name you have not yet caught.

Invest money with a fellow at your golf/cricket/lawn tennis club who has the right handshake.

You are not a special consultant, the one that has no clients.



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Re: Ground development
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2015, 09:05:58 PM »
Another one lost the plot

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2015, 07:35:00 AM »
Lost the plot have I.

Well I realised from the start that the ground development was,

No benefit to the members and public at all.

A drain on the clubs income and accumulated fund, if it still exists.

Years of disruption in and around the ground.

Will get built in some form as the club is in to it to far to turn back.

The club and some of the senior officials have history at getting ripped off/doing their money.

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2015, 09:31:11 AM »
Another one lost the plot

 .... seems like Essex members losing their plot or a big chunk of it at least.

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2015, 09:31:46 AM »
Another one lost the plot

Ah, another one? You mean there's more of us?

Do I get a prize for guessing that you are Mr Bowden in disguise?

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2015, 01:13:42 PM »
Yes you will get access to all parts of the new pavilion that will be restricted to ordinary members. Not sure how long you will have to wait though.

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Re: Ground development
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2015, 07:16:43 PM »
There should be an official enquiry into the gross mismanagement of this project.