02-04-2021, 11:00 AM
(02-04-2021, 10:35 AM)Jean_claude_killy Wrote:(02-04-2021, 10:21 AM)Widdow Wrote: Other thoughts, The academy building, he also admitted, is woeful. And it has taken four years for them to apply to category 1 status, when it could have been done at any time. Every club in the Midlands virtually is category 1. Derby have been for years. They have made it sound like a really big and ambitious move when it is actually playing catch up .
IF get permission to build stand, when will that happen? Not sure if it was me, but it seemed when he was asked that question he changed the subject.
They actually announced in January that the application would be submitted in the first quarter of 2021. So it has changed again. Yet we got to March 31 and absolutely nobody asking why, certainly not the interviewee .... just feels like a mix of apathy and people being disconnected maybe?
Applying for Cat 1 is not that easy.
You just cannot submit an application at any time; there is a three year cycle - if you are not in a position to apply when the opportunity come round, you wait another three years.
Any application submitted three years ago would have been dismissed out of hand as there are no Educational facilities on site; this is a pre requisite for Cat 1.
The application for planning permission for the Stand should have gone in during the first quarter of 2021, but there was a delay due to issues with the proposed apartment blocks.
Delays on a project this size are inevitable.
Ty for the clarification, Jean.
SA.