Readers' letters continue to come in on the issue of a new stadium for Grimsby Town. Yesterday, we featured a special question and answer article, based on questions asked by the Park Ward Action Group and answers from the Supporters Trust and North East Lincolnshire Council. Today, we feature a series of letters on the issue, some with answers, as well as a new image provided by Grimsby Town Football Club, which shows the exact location that they are looking at, and its proximity to neighbouring houses, the crematorium and hospice.
I DON'T think they should build a stadium near Peaks Parkway.
It is also disgusting to develop such a thing near the crematorium, as people go in there for a peaceful rest and comfort.
They don't need football hooligans going wild, wrecking everything and upsetting people. That's the last place it wants to be.
Name and address supplied.
• In the leaflet distributed by the Mariners' Trust, there is the following statement: "The club recognises this concern and wishes to ensure that a full consultation will be undertaken with the intention of listening to issues raised and ensuring the minimum negative impact should the scheme be given approval. The planning process will ensure street stewarding to be implemented to control supporters along new pathways down Peaks Parkway and also ensure litter is collected.
"There are may examples where stadia and cemeteries are closely located, such as at AFC Bournemouth, Bury FC, Chelsea FC, Plymouth Argyle FC, Watford FC, AFC Wimbledon and the new site for York City. There are no adverse findings to suggest this to be a problem and the club is well-known locally for its support of families in times of bereavement."
A FLYER delivered through my letter box asks for my support for a petition to build a football ground and retail development on Grimsby's principal relief road.
The application is for a 14,000-seater stadium with car parking for 2,000 cars.
Pedestrians are barred from most of Peaks Parkway, and certainly from the stretch alongside the proposed site on that side of the road. How do the developers plan for the crowd to arrive – in 2,000, full, seven-seater cars?
Can I take it that the accompanying retail development shuts on match days?
As the local authority has already crippled considerable stretches of the road with an unjustified 30mph speed limit, one can only assume they will cripple it further with traffic lights or a roundabout, and accompanying speed control.
The flyover by the Telegraph offices is another example of an unjustified 30mph limit as, again, there is no pedestrian/vehicle interface, enforced by months of new barrier installation – followed by the erection of automated warning signs.
Congestion causes accidents – developments contributing to congestion are culpable.
There are acres of brownfield development sites close to railways, motorway connections, adjacent to bus routes and footpaths on the docks. Fish Dock Park makes far more sense – how iconic would that be? The Pontoon, the Cod End, the Dogger Bank and the Tower Stand. What's not to like? Put Greater Grimsby on the map.
Name and address supplied.
• The Mariners' Trust leaflet says: "The size of the development dictates that it cannot be accommodated on a brownfield site within the borough.
The enabling development, as with many other similar schemes, is essential to deliver a community stadium complex.
Should the project become a reality the unfortunate reduction of this green space will in return see a massive community benefit."
I AM an allotment holder at Peaksfield allotments.
I have been there for 13 years and I have grown my fruit trees myself and also grown my own vegetables.
Tell me, please, Mr Fenty, why haven't you mentioned Peaksfield allotments in your plans?
Would you like to come and speak to us if you have the time?
We have 70 members and some of my friends have been on the allotments for more than 20 years. Some of them live very close to the allotments, so they will lose their plots and the development could potentially bring their house prices down.
To put this development next to and almost on top of the crematorium is ridiculous, people like to enjoy peace and quiet with their loved ones after a bereavement and do not want to have to endure the noise and chanting from a football ground when they are spending time with someone they have lost.
I would like to say a big thank you to all who have signed the petition so far to not have this disrespectful development put on our allotment and right next to where people lay in rest.
Thank you so much.
Concerned, Grimsby, full name and address supplied.
• In the Mariners' Trust leaflet, it states: "Allotment holders should be comforted by the fact that the Secretary of State will need to give permission for any changes to the current site. The allotment along Peaks Parkway is less than 50 per cent utilised and there may be some space at nearby Weelsby Road allotments. However, it is very likely that the existing site users can be accommodated into the scheme with improved facilities."
WHY would anyone want to build a football ground on the Peaks Parkway?
The majority of people coming to matches will come down the A180, on to Victoria Street, or down Freeman Street, on shopping days, or is Mr Fenty going to get those changed?
This is a quiet area close to a cemetery and crematorium, respect it and move elsewhere.
Pensioner, Laceby, name and address supplied.
PS Football? I would sooner watch paint dry.
The Mariners' Trust says in its leaflet: "Modern stadia are designed to contain sound much better than Blundell Park and the nearest house will be 450 metres away from the nearest house."
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