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Post by edinburghhatter on Jul 23, 2020 18:06:12 GMT
The bowling green is located almost exactly behind the full width of the penalty area, with a steep bank behind the Railway end fence leading down to it, covered in scrubby trees and bushes. And both that area and the bungalow are definitely shown on plans as being outside the boundary of the Stockport Homes site.
So if that is the area that has been cleared, or is even just lying derelict, something may well be imminent.
Really need to look over the fence and get a pic... when I first went to EP in the mid 1960s, getting under/over the old fence on matchdays was a local sport!
Back in the day you had to scramble down (and back up) that bank to use the toilet (Otherwise known as some guttering bolted onto a upright piece of corrugated steel. And IIRC the tea hut used to teeter over it on a bit of a wooden support. Those were the days ..... Indeed! And the original corrugated metal fence was, as you say, at the bottom of the bank. In other words, adjacent to the bowling green. I've suggested before that when the Railway end was finally concreted over in the mid 1980s, and the present concrete fence erected at the top of the new terrace, Edgeley Park's footprint in fact shrank, as the sloping area behind the new fence was in effect simply abandoned. Would be interesting to see what a good lawyer could make of that! Because the rear slope is an integral part of the terrace, which would collapse without it. I just hope we're not about to pay for what is already ours! Or should that be the Council's?
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Post by Duncan McOchin on Jul 23, 2020 18:45:52 GMT
Shirley people would find planning docs on the SMBC website long before any activity took place? Shirley would hope so! But planning applications can take quite a time to progress... And so that doesn't really answer the 2 questions asked. I'd go and poke around the sites in question myself, if it weren't for the fact I live 250 miles from EP, so simply getting there is a problem. The labour club is no longer operating. Well I live half a mile away, but am very lazy. Sorry
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