The sport’s club planning application for a new clubhouse and enabling houses is to be heard by the Southern Area Planning Committee on Thursday 27 August at 6.00pm. The venue is the Alamein Suite in the City Hall. We cannot be sure our application will be heard first as there will be other cases to be voted on, but the meeting commences at 6 o’clock – BE THERE!
It is vital we have as many supporters of the application as possible because, although the audience is not allowed to speak, clapping or hissing is not able to be stopped which would influence the committee made up of our councillors. These councillors are our elected representatives and should wish to follow any majority opinion if they want to get elected again! The councillors are human and inevitably will be “helped” in their vote by seeing how seriously people consider an application, by how many people turn up at the meeting.
Please make every effort to attend to help all the work put in so far pay off. Bring a friend, a relative, another club member, anyone you can think of. If you cannot attend, make sure you let other people know of the meeting. Hopefully our application will be approved, but it is very likely conditions will be attached, and if we can minimise these that would reduce costs and/or onerous responsibilities.
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It is quite likely, but not yet confirmed, that the clubhouse and enabling housing application will be heard on Thursday August 26th at 6.00 pm at the City Hall. The application is hopefully going to be “recommended for approval” by the planners and then voted on by the elected councillors.
We need to have as many supporters at the meeting as possible so that the councillors can see how seriously the application is taken by us. The councillors are after all elected by the public (us!) and thus will want to be seen to support public opinion, and so the more people showing support for the project the better. It is possible the project would be approved but with conditions attached, so if we can prevent any onerous or expensive conditions, the better it will be for our club.
Please let as many of your fellow members and friends know about this possible date and keep checking the web-site for confirmation of the date of the hearing.
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A meeting was held last Thursday 16.7.09 at the sports ground with the Wiltshire representative of the ECB, and a six figure sum could well be available for the new club-house. “All the boxes are ticked” was their quote, so hopefully on receipt of planning approval, funds from regional cricket should be forthcoming.
A meeting with an F.A. official on behalf of the football foundation is in the diary, and with any luck a similar amount might be available. There are a number of conditions which the sports club would have to meet because there is no football member section at present, but a formal link with Salisbury City juniors is a possibility in order to address this.
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Following a meeting at the sports club with the Highways Agency, the HA have now removed their objection/stop notice to the planning application. A number of issues were discussed and the entrance to the ground has now been altered to allow better visibility. The fence by the entrance has been realigned to make visibility better on exiting the ground. A pedestrian access has been made on the eastern side so pedestrians do not have to walk in the roadway. A travel plan will also need to be written to make members more aware of sharing vehicles and using public transport. Reassurances were given to the HA that traffic volume should not alter dramatically by the provision of a new pavilion.
As a result of the Highways Agency withdrawing their objections, the planning officer is writing up his report recommending approval. However it is unlikely to be an “Officer Delegated Decision”, given the housing element/public interest, and it is anticipated that the application will go before the Planning Committee on 16 July (but to achieve that the planning officer will need to complete his report by end of June).
We will be informed of this eventuality, and if this happens we will need to bring a lot of members to the committee meeting, which would be at the City Hall, to help sway the vote!
Watch this space for further updates and keep your fellow members informed.
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The beer festival held at the sports club on Saturday 25.4.09 was a great success with many representatives from the cricket, hockey, rugby and orienteering sections as well as many guests joining in. However the revelers failed to empty all 10 barrels. The hockey five were winners of the boat-race over the rugby five.
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped the event go off smoothly, and special thanks to Peter Curtis for organising it. Hopefully it can become a regular fixture in the annual diary.
It appears the profit will be in excess of £1,500, so another significant contribution to the new pavilion fund.
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There is a suggestion for the hockey and rugby sections to have a cricket match, the rugby and cricket sections to have a hockey match and the cricket and hockey sections to have a rugby match. This would ideally take place in September. One volunteer from each section would be required to coordinate this, so if interested please step forward.
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A proposal is being put forward to the sports club committee for a petanque playing area (known as a ‘terrain’). This would require a minimum area of 17m by 6m and could result in a new member section at the club.
If anyone is interested in this, please contact Steve Rowland-Jones on either 01722 501413 or steve.ro-jo@ntlworld.com.
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A new local website has been launched dedicated to providing the latest sports news from the Salisbury area as it happens 7 days a week.
The website – www.sport4salisbury.com will benefit the sports club tremendously by reporting on all the sports we are involved with, and uniquely promises to put money back into local sport by donating monthly awards to worthwhile local sports clubs through the sport4salisbury foundation.
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The rugby team are in the process of receiving “full category one membership status” of the Wilts and Dorset RFU. This would be an impressive achievement for such a young club, and hopefully allow access to some RFU funds to help build the new clubhouse.
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The council finance committee agreed to provide the full £100,000 for the clubhouse project at their meeting on Tuesday evening. Previously the council had offered to provide between 50K and 100K subject to available funds, and that has now been shown to be available at the full amount in R2 funds (which is where developers money is held). The motion was passed unanimously. This is in addition to the 10K already donated by the council.
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