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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2008 13:29:08 GMT 1
A new link to a proposed redevelopment plan for the footballing facilities in Blackburn has been created on the main website. blackburnunited.homestead.com/Redevelopment.htmlOur objective is to replace the current facilities with a facility that provides children and adults alike with an opportunity to develop their potential and encourage them to participate in a healthy activity that will divert them from involvement in anti social behaviour within the local community and to get the whole community involved in football, placing an emphasis upon the social benefits of participation in Scotland’s most popular sport. Please feel free to leave comment on and give your backing to this proposal. |
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Post by burnieman on Feb 17, 2008 13:17:57 GMT 1
It's great news. Murrayfield Park is frankly a disgrace as far as facilities are concerned, they're "not fit for the purpose". There's no toilets for the public, the barriers round the pitch are rusted to buggery, the fence round the park is falling to bits and I believe the pavilion roof has more holes in it than the Stoneyburn defence.
Blackburn always seems to be left behind when the cash is being dished out, the Community Centre is falling to bits, so is Murrayfield Park, half the Doctors surgery is in portacabins, it's time these facilities were vastly improved for the whole community to benefit.
Sure, there's an artificial pitch going in at St.Kents, but who wants to trail all the way down there? I also hear that there is no new changing facilities being built there either.
Time for the Council to deliver. Also good to hear that a Community Football Club is being set-up, I'll need to start trotting along to some of the U21 and U16 games to see how many budding young Maradona's we have!
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Post by theobserver on Feb 21, 2008 21:11:01 GMT 1
It's about time the Council put something back into Blackburn, the fitba grounds are a disgrace and the Centre is only good for demolition.
Well done to the club for getting involved with this, I hope people support it and get behind the idea. It's going to benefit Blackburn people and Blackburn kids, and about time to.
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Post by cmontheburnie on Feb 22, 2008 7:58:50 GMT 1
Well done to the club for getting involved with this, I hope people support it and get behind the idea. It's going to benefit Blackburn people and Blackburn kids, and about time to. Hear hear. I think people in Blackburn think theCouncil have forgotten where the village is as nothing is invested here. This type of development is exactly what needed to give kids somewhere to look forward to going and give Blackburn folk something to be proud of. I hope it happens. |
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Post by theobserver on May 12, 2008 19:48:53 GMT 1
What's the latest with this?
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2008 8:56:35 GMT 1
What's the latest with this? Discussions are presently underway with Councillors representing the Blackburn & Whitburn Ward (West Lothian Ward 7) and with the appropriate council officers from the WLC Property Services Department. We hope these necessary initial discussions will help move our proposals forward but there is the potential for them to be long and involved. However, early indications are that there is a willingness from all parties to try and facilitate improvement to the football facilities in Blackburn. |
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Post by theobserver on May 22, 2008 16:14:27 GMT 1
I had heard the Council were dragging their feet as usual, typical, Blackburn gets bugger all from that shower.
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2008 19:35:52 GMT 1
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Post by burnieman on Aug 15, 2008 22:04:38 GMT 1
Typical Council, full of pish and wind. Blackburn get's f'ck all from these idiots.
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Post by swinger on Aug 16, 2008 7:25:09 GMT 1
Wan't a bet that if there was no team there,we would be looking at house's by now,well it was good while it lasted.Lets see what help their going to give us, if it's like anything they have done in the past it will be f**k all. Maybe we should change our name to Linlithgow Rose.
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Post by theobserver on Aug 17, 2008 20:49:07 GMT 1
Shocking if this is all true. I think Swinger has nailed it on the head. If Murrayfield Park wasn't leased to the club it would have been houses long ago.
A lot of pish and wind from the Council, maybe there's no backhanders involved? or Blackburn isn't close enough to Livvy which sems to get all the cash.
Broxburn get a multi-million pound refurbishment and synthetic pitch, Fauldhouse gets £7m chucked at it for new community centre, West Calder get a brand new ground, Blackburn get's f'ck all as usual.
I heard at the Harthill game that the changing room roof caved in, the place is falling to bits but the Council do nothing to help, the fence is completely knackered and neds just waltz in but the Council do nothing to help, the toilet block looks as though it's falling down but the Council do nothing to help. Pathetic shower of no users.
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Post by cmontheburnie on Aug 18, 2008 7:09:21 GMT 1
Reading the stuff posted by the Council reads like a list of excuses to me as theres nothing that cant be overcome if they wanted to try. they just dont want to try which is what most people expected. As the observer says - pathetic
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Post by swinger on Aug 18, 2008 21:42:06 GMT 1
The council would have to look at a map to findout were Blackburn is.
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Post by Admin on Aug 19, 2008 14:43:30 GMT 1
WLC's Property Services Manager Jack Orr yesterday afternoon, 18th August, presented to the Whitburn & Blackburn Local Area Committee his departments recommendations on Blackburn United Community Football Club's redevelopment proposal. In summary, he outlined that the Club's proposal hinged upon Murrayfield Park being developed for residential housing and the Club relocating to the Council owned open space to the east of the current ground. He further outlined that this was contrary to the Council's open space strategy as outlined in their Local Plan (2005) and would also present problems for WLC's Education Services as existing secondary school rolls in the Blackburn area cannot currently support any new residential development not already included in the aforementioned Local Plan. Consequently, Property Services recommended that the Club's proposals cannot be taken forward in their present form.
Blackburn United Vice President Ian McGinty was then given the opportunity to put forward a response and he explained that the Club's vision was to provide a modern facility for both the Club and the wider community, a facility that would allow the club to grow and engage further with the community and that would provide a focal point to help steer local youngsters away from anti social behaviour. Ian then stated that Murrayfield Park could not presently be considered public open space as the ground was for the Club's sole use under the terms of a ground lease that runs to 2021 and that the proposed redevelopment of the open space to the east of the village would see the site in question remain as predominantly open space reconfigured on much the same footprint with only a section of it being fenced off for the Club's exclusive use. Ian underlined that he felt Sport Scotland, who are the prime movers against public open space in communities being used for residential/commercial development, would not oppose a redevelopment that provided a modern sporting facility at it's core. Councillor Jim Swan suggested that much of what the Club proposed may be enabled as part of the ongoing Blackburn Partnership initiative.
The Chair of the meeting moved to minute the recommendation from Property Services and indicated that the Club should engage with Property Services on the matter in an attempt to identify a possible acceptable alternative. Ian indicated the Club's willingness to do so.
Progress will be posted on the main website and on this thread as and when it happens.
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Post by burnieman on Aug 20, 2008 0:18:53 GMT 1
Typical Council, full of pish and wind. Blackburn get's f'ck all from these idiots. Aye, I think I was proved right  |
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