HHP is dead. (soon to be official) - But that is not all...

green_genie wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

green_genie wrote:

If they are no longer in contact with PCC where are the rumours from? I call shenanigans on this one.

We do have meeting with council officer's on other projects, ie cafe hub, lake, trees, and extending the alottments but not the overall master plans. We have our resources for news coming out from PCC.  

From that contact with PCC it would seem highly likely that FoCP are aware the HP Village including the GT suite has no valid planning permission. Just as well they are reasonable people and haven't acted out of spite after the boarish actions at The Cherry Tree.

They are now up to date,

Non complacency agreements with lease land in side Central park are being looked into, If found wanting the area involve we hope could be reclaim and taking back and place into a community asset

Below is the relevant extract from the Central Park Area Action Plan which is underpinned by the Council's Core Strategy which will determine the principles that any planning application (and request for covenant change) will be judged against.

"To deliver major improvements to Home Park Stadium and support the extension of
Plymouth Argyle Football Club’s programmes of training and fitness within the
community, engagement with the city’s youth, through developing its southern stand
for supporters, corporate clients and hospitality, and through complementary
commercial development potentially including:

A leisure or sporting facility such as indoor tennis, specialist sports training,
ten pin bowling;

Conference and exhibition space;

A hotel;

Leisure and sports related retailing of an appropriate scale and nature
consistent with the Core Strategy’s retail objectives;

Refreshment retailing (Use Class A3) to provide a range of services and
choice including health eating outlets;"

Given the 'no overall control' position of Plymouth City Council it could be considered even more unlikely that Councillors will be persuaded to ignore their well founded planning policies and support a project such as student accommodation within the Park. Even more so if they want to survive at the ballot box let alone expose themselves to legal challenge and associated costs should they be even remotely inclined to support such a proposal.

On the wider issue the provision of large student accommodation on sites in the city has reached maturity or even saturation point. Schemes will only proceed to construction if they are within stumbling distance of the University as market research dictates that location is the potential student occupier's most important requirement. In addition, construction cost inflation in the south-west is running at 8-15% annually and this is putting huge pressure on the viability of such schemes hence the failure to commence some of the larger schemes recently granted planning permission.

HHP remains a secondary location commercially. That is the principal reason why it failed to attract the necessary food and drink interest to kick start the approved HHP development. As far as student accommodation is concerned it is even more secondary with other already permitted schemes holding a significant locational advantage in the unlikely event that demand for such accommodation substantially increases in the future.

I've lost the will to care much about what happens...................when has Plymouth ever got anything right ?

Nothing will change until Mr Brent has moved on - lame efforts as usual!!