Car Parking
Last season the club said that millbrook school were no longer offering match day parking , the club said they were in discussions with the school to see if they could run it , have we heard anything back at all? parking at AP is an absolute pain as can take 1 hour plus to get out and parking just outside means you have to get there 2 hours before KO! parking at the school was ideal and would be a shame if the club are not going to offer this, not offering would mean that many fans and casual fans simply won't attend...which is a massive shame
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Trevor Stroud reported at the August Trust Members meeting: "Discussions have recommenced between the club and the Millbrook School regarding reinstating match day parking. There will be further updates on this if progress is made"
Nothing more known as yet but will ask for another update at next meeting on 26th September.
I don't get the problem here, why did the school feel it wasn't possible to let out the space to spin a few quid 23 times a year? What am I missing?
Guessing school's insurance company became a problem. (they have been getting very difficult in recent times).
Unlikely to be the clubs fault and probably not local school's management.
I too would welcome the return of the school parking...but perhaps the caretaker didn't want the extra unlocking/locking bum ache and it was hard to find someone to man it/take the payments.
If they can find a solution that would be great...a parking spot and getting some steps in. Perfect.
Maybe it was down to an insurance issue?
Surely it shouldn’t be that difficult to establish the reason for the decision to withdraw the facility? I may be wrong but it feels like quite a long time since the school shut up shop.
Once the reasons have been established and understood it should, in theory, be possible either to introduce measures to overcome whatever issues may be preventing re-instatement or to recognise and accept the impossibility (or extreme difficulty) of resolving them.
Let’s hope a decision one way or the other will have been reached in time for the meeting in ten days time.
Millbrook school is open for pre booked spaces for villa next week.
That should put another 5000 on the gate then.
I think it is a mixture of Insurance costs and the Caretaker needing more money because his hours have increased
Excellent news.
Well, one at least
Result! Saves me driving aimlessly round the mean streets of Sandbanks.
Hopefully we will have it in place for future Saturday fixtures. After a 4 hour drive I need to park away from the ground as a walk is much needed.
I meant Sands,
Sandbanks is, of course, where I have my holiday home.
I'd been thinking there was some cryptic meaning I was missing.
there could be a number of reasons it’s not used as parking anymore. I doubt it’s insurance if they are doing a one off for villa. It could be a number of things. I remember years ago it was used as a music school on a Saturday morning and could be used for school activities on an afternoon now.
Is the mythical road plan dead in the water now RC has left?
Maybe the magical mythical road leads to Reading?
It’s now the Yellow Brick Road…….
’DING dong the wicked witch is dead’
Does your neighbour Harry give you good tips?
I think Harry lives in Poole at the moment as he demolished his Sandbanks home.
That was very careless of him.
Easily done when your house is made of sand though.
People in sand houses shouldn’t throw beach balls
People in sand castles surely, especially in that neck of the woods.