Fancy living at Brockhall?

[Burnleyareback2]

Rumours on Twitter that the Venkys are applying for planing permission to build some houses...

[ElectroClaret]

Already mentioned on the "Rovers Faint Play Off Hopes..."
thread.

[Bosscat]

Rumours on Twitter that the Venkys are applying for planing permission to build some houses...

170 of them and a convenience store

https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/plannin ... tion/32734

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[Dazzler]

Already mentioned on the "Rovers Faint Play Off Hopes..."
thread.

We're not under contract to read every single post.

Anyway, the topic is deserving of a thread of its own.

[claptrappers_union]

Are Rovers moving there training facilities or just selling the land and downscaling?

[Leisure]

Surely these will be on the site of the hospital, not Rovers training ground.

[Pstotto]

I had the horror of having to go on a school visit to one of the Whalley mental hospitals and I'm still disturbed to an extent by the experience.

Years later an artist colony was set up there and I went to visit to see what it was and it again was one of the most disturbing experiences I've ever had, from one madness to another.

Sheer hell.

... And then Blackburn Rovers.

I don't ever want to live there.

In the 80s there's the movie Betty Blue and the notion of living in an abandoned factory and having a bath in a warehouse and it's promoted as trendy art life and free expansive being and it's believable.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Are Rovers moving there training facilities or just selling the land and downscaling?

There are 2 planning applications.

One to improve the smaller site, which was historically for the youth teams.

One for the main site to demolish stuff and knock up 170 odd houses.

I can only assume they're going to relocate all the teams to the other smaller site.

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[Volvoclaret]

How are they going to dig foundations where fatty Dunn has stamped his feet? totally compacted.

[ElectroClaret]

Surely these will be on the site of the hospital, not Rovers training ground.

Would anyone notice if they were being built in the middle of the training ground?

[Spike]

How are they going to dig foundations where fatty Dunn has stamped his feet? totally compacted.

They would need to be big houses to fit Dunny sized folk in them

[FCBurnley]

Should build em at Ewood

[Chester Perry]

In the 80s there's the movie Betty Blue and the notion of living in an abandoned factory and having a bath in a warehouse and it's promoted as trendy art life and free expansive being and it's believable.

There is a scene like that in Diva (another iconic 80's French film) that I was quite obsessed with for a while, with a wave machine, a girl on roller skates and a very large single colour jigsaw. I have not seen Betty Blue for some reason, as I have had a long liking of French cinema,

[Pstotto]

It's films OK but not really practical.

I'd be happy with a normal house.

My expectations have dropped since the 80s...

[LordBob]

Back in the day Brockhall staff and friends had a decent football team and at the time I played for Haslingden St. Mary's in the same league and it was a pleasure to play on one of the beautiful pitches at Brockhall. The 'residents' worked under supervision on the upkeep of the grounds and the pitches and those same 'residents' would stand along the touchline during a game and hopefully enjoy the match. My vivid memory was an early season game, lovely weather and beautiful pitch plus the fact as I was a pretty fast wide right player and the Brockhall left back was a lot overweight and uninterested it made my day easier until I'd drifted past him for probably the 5th time when I was launched into the air .... not by a Brockhall player but a 'resident' fan who took his team allegiance too far apparently it was a regular occurrence from the Brockhall Ultras.

[Boss Hogg]

Personally not keen on the idea of living on the site of a former lunatic asylum. I’ve been in the run down buildings there and other similar places and they weren’t nice. Houses there should be cheap.

[Grumps]

Already plenty of houses at Brockhall, always been said more would be built at some point

[Whitgord]

There are some very nice houses at Brockhall. No real signs of old hospital now.

[Bosscat]

Personally not keen on the idea of living on the site of a former lunatic asylum. I’ve been in the run down buildings there and other similar places and they weren’t nice. Houses there should be cheap.

Do you not think it quite appropriate Rovers training ground is on the former site of a Lunatic Asylum.

(It was also a home for "unmarried Mothers" and for "Ladies who liked a drink" for a while too ...)

[bfcjg]

The criminally insane, lunatics and psychopaths were disgusted that a worse class of deviant were allowed to takeover their former home when bstards got it .

[Somethingfishy]

A sign that Venkys finally realise that they are throwing good money after bad. Surely with the downsizing they could lose their academy status? Judging by the state of the pitch the youth game earlier today was played on perhaps they are moving so they can train on pitches in a similar mess to the one at Ewood.
Another sign the tables have well and truly turned. We just need Venkys to pull the plug once they have got some of their money back.