{"id":372388,"date":"2013-05-30T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/?p=372388"},"modified":"2013-05-30T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:03:16","slug":"cambridge-united-flabergasted-by-opposition-to-new-community-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/?p=372388","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge United &#8216;flabbergasted&#8217; by opposition to new community stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_372389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-372389 \" alt=\"An impression of the inside of Cambridge United proposed new stadium .\" src=\"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00463624-800x465-300x174.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An impression of the inside of Cambridge United proposed new stadium .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cambridge United and developers Grosvenor have vowed to fight on with plans for a new community stadium after being \u201cflabbergasted\u201d at their rejection by local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge United chairman Dave Doggett has said failure to receive council backing for a proposed stadium is &#8220;not the end of the road&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council planners have recommended all nine sites consulted on for a proposed sporting village, which would also feature an indoor sports hall, hockey and five-a-side football pitches as well as an 8,000-capacity ground for United, be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners are battling plans for a new community stadium south of Cambridge with united opposition amid fears about the impact on Grantchester Meadows. Four residents\u2019 associations and two parish councils have signed a letter which warns construction of an 8,000-seater ground for Cambridge United plus 400 homes near Trumpington would be a disaster. They are concerned about the loss of green belt land and the merging of the city with nearby villages, plus traffic and parking.<\/p>\n<p>Signatories include the chairmen of Grantchester and Haslingfield parish councils, alongside Trumpington Residents\u2019 Association, Southacre, Latham and Chaucer Residents\u2019 Association, Bentley and Newtown Roads Residents\u2019 Association, and Newtown Residents\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Abbey Stadium, on Newmarket Road, is owned by the international property developer Grosvenor Homes, which wishes to redevelop it for houses. They will still push ahead with a planning application for the stadium at Trumpington. Ed Skeates, Grosvenor projects director, said: &#8220;We were going to put an application in some time ago, but were asked to hold back and follow the due process and this is where we&#8217;ve got to. This is just a recommendation, so we\u2019ll go along to the next couple of meetings and hopefully, we\u2019ll get to a slightly wider view once we&#8217;ve heard the debate. We need to unpick this because the position they&#8217;ve taken doesn&#8217;t feel quite right, so we\u2019ll see what happens, but we\u2019re ready to go with an application, that\u2019s for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/22540875<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/Sport\/Sport-headlines\/Us-ready-to-battle-for-new-stadium-20130515090200.htm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/News\/Campaigners-battle-plans-for-Cambridges-new-community-stadium-20130320100006.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge United and developers Grosvenor have vowed to fight on with plans for a new community stadium after being \u201cflabbergasted\u201d at their rejection by local authorities. Cambridge United chairman Dave Doggett has said failure to receive council backing for a proposed stadium is &#8220;not the end of the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haslingfieldvillage.co.uk\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}