Home at Last?
Canterbury City Council
Press Release 26/01/2012
COUNCIL TO DISCUSS NEW FOOTBALL CLUB HOME
Executive members will decide whether to begin the process of seeking planning permission for a new home for Canterbury City Football Club at Ridlands Farm at a meeting on Thursday 2 February.
A report to councillors seeks permission for pre-application work to begin, which involves Ridlands Farm being tested on a variety of planning issues, with a view to submitting a full planning application in due course.
This work would include an environmental impact assessment, a design statement, a transport and access assessment, a noise and floodlighting assessment and a landscape impact assessment.
In addition, there would be two sets of public consultation. The first would be in advance of the submission of a planning application, as is required for major schemes under the new Localism Act.
And then if a formal planning application was submitted, there would be the usual statutory planning consultation.
Providing a permanent home for Canterbury City Football Club has been an ambition of the city council for many years.
The Executive meeting is at the Guildhall in Canterbury on Thursday 2 February at 6.30pm and is open to the public.
Canterbury City FC
Press Release 26/01/2012
PROGRESS ON NEW HOME GROUND
Club Chairman Tim Clark has welcomed the announcement that the City Council will be asked on the 2nd February to give the go ahead for the first steps in seeking planning permission for a new football ground at Ridlands Farm in Canterbury.
“This announcement is welcomed by everyone at the Club. The Club has achieved a great deal over the last few years since reforming but not having a ground of our own back in the City does restrict us financially and that has a direct effect on what we can achieve in the local Community and in keeping the momentum going.”
“Assuming the Council give the go ahead then as a Club we intend to be involved in the pre-planning application consultation process and fully engage with the local residents directly. I want to reassure everyone that as a Community Interest Club by our very constitution we are there to work with people for mutual benefit. I have always said that Canterbury needs a senior football team back in the City to compliment the Rugby, Hockey and Cricket. I hope this is the very real start of that becoming a reality”.