Peaks Parkway Allotments

Quoted from grimsby pete

Just had a thought,

If there are any vacant plots on the allotments,

We should take them up and work from the inside,

I'll get my name down for one toMARROW        

Allotments are like gold dust down here. They've even stopped taking names on the waiting list. You have to bump people off to get on the list. If there's any vacancies up there it's a crying shame and proves any stadium won't affect that many people.

PS on the other hand I've not seen any evidence to support the claim there's a big unmet demand for housing so I'm not convinced there's enough money out there for any enabling development.

Quoted from ginnywings

Does it really matter? It will be a community asset, which we as a club will use but so will others. As pointed out, BP is worth nowt anyway.

Not to be argumentative, but that's quite a narrow capitalistic approach.  

To me, Blundell Park - a place with history and memories galore in a town that disregards much of its built heritage --  is actually "worth" a heck of a lot more than any bland new meccano structure with a good car park and no local infrastructure.

And a 'community asset' that much of the community (outside of a lot of Town fans) doesn't seem to want is hardly an asset to the community at large.  


UTM

Quoted from nickmariners

Not to be argumentative, but that's quite a narrow capitalistic approach.  

To me, Blundell Park - a place with history and memories galore in a town that disregards much of its built heritage --  is actually "worth" a heck of a lot more than any bland new meccano structure with a good car park and no local infrastructure.

And a 'community asset' that much of the community (outside of a lot of Town fans) doesn't seem to want is hardly an asset to the community at large.  


UTM

Got to move with the times and your right with the word " memories "

With thoughts like above, it's no wonder Grimsby is left behind from other places in the country

Quoted from BIGChris

Who owns the land and who pays for the new stadium?

Yeah  your right Chris ABP owns the land that is like asking for a miracle.  Pity they don't see the connection between the community of Grimsby it's football team and the fishing heritage  

What shocked me more was the rudeness, aggression and just all round ignorance from people who are against it. I'm sure if the yes brigade behaved that way it would work against them.

Too many people have stood still in the town for long enough. There are people in all areas trying their hardest to move the town forward but every step along the way these busy/boring/archaic types stop it and then moan s year later about the 'state' of the town.

I'm not looking at what the new ground will do for the club bug more about how it can make mine, yours and everyone's town a better place.

Last week one silly woman kept tripping herself up and then when she heard it could be a Sainsbury's she seemed to warm to the idea.

As for the allotments, I suspect the initial comments are false and more to do with kids than find masked, pro stadium vandals. If town don't get the stadium there the allotments will still go when a big housing company and a multi national supermarket turn up and build on it anyway.

Quoted from ackomariner

Got to move with the times and your right with the word " memories "

With thoughts like above, it's no wonder Grimsby is left behind from other places in the country

Well - you may be the Pevsner of the Pontoon, and your confidence in the developers suggest that Grimsby has been wonderfully transformed in past 30 years. You live there, I don't, so clearly you are happy with the dog's breakfast that much of Gy has become (though Cleethorpes front area has been renovated well).

But in my opinion (and opinions are granted holy status on this website), Grimsby and district is not over-blessed with anything to do with its heritage.

If New is Good, Old is Bad, let's demolish the Dock Tower while we are at it.

I like BP, I enjoy going to a real football ground, I value those memories and that history, and for me the Dartford and the MK dons models are 2nd rate. A properly refurbbed BP is my own preference, and yes, I do think it may be possible to build an economic case around that as well as my stuck-in-the-past emotive one.

Now, Woking here I come

Quoted from aldi_01

What shocked me more was the rudeness, aggression and just all round ignorance from people who are against it. I'm sure if the yes brigade behaved that way it would work against them.

Too many people have stood still in the town for long enough. There are people in all areas trying their hardest to move the town forward but every step along the way these busy/boring/archaic types stop it and then moan s year later about the 'state' of the town.

I'm not looking at what the new ground will do for the club bug more about how it can make mine, yours and everyone's town a better place.

Last week one silly woman kept tripping herself up and then when she heard it could be a Sainsbury's she seemed to warm to the idea.

As for the allotments, I suspect the initial comments are false and more to do with kids than find masked, pro stadium vandals. If town don't get the stadium there the allotments will still go when a big housing company and a multi national supermarket turn up and build on it anyway.

Aldi - I am sure you want the best for the club, but speaking as a committed Town fan who prefers BP to PP, I don't think you win the argument by insulting those who have a different view.

Quoted from nickmariners

Aldi - I am sure you want the best for the club, but speaking as a committed Town fan who prefers BP to PP, I don't think you win the argument by insulting those who have a different view.

I think we should make that our logo in the fight to a new ground,

WE    WANT    PP   NOT    BP.