Interesting...very interesting

[coupwotcoup]

http://www.tonykempster.btinternet.co.uk/grade_e.htm

 

 

Might be interest to one or two people here. Sorry if this is old news. By the way, is the Queen Mother still ill?

[coupwotcoup]

Having just perused said link, that's it for the Essex Senior League then apart from Romford, Enfield Town, Bowers, Concord and maybe Wabbey. It will all be over by Christmas!

[Tom S]

Surely Burnham are there or therabouts as well.

[coupwotcoup]

Sorry you are right..So it's Boxing Day then????

[coupwotcoup]

Mind you, can't you view the game from outside the ground at Burnham? If so that negates your validity, no? Haven't seen Brimmo for a while, but I presume improvements have been carried out.

[Mr Happy]

Yep they have but it's some of the little things that concern me such as lighting in the stand for the press and emergency lithgting around the ground.. Mind you, we've always got Chopper's hair colour to full in!!

[coupwotcoup]

..and Tannoys. We have one at Romford, even Stansted have now and I think Burnham. You still got the bloke with the megaphone and does that count?

[The Invisible Man]

Clause 1 para 3 is interesting!

 

I wonderwho wrote 1.7 - there is no such thing a touchline in Association Football.

 

2.3 - prsumably spectator toilets are going to be built at Brimmo, or have they been done now?

 

Not many ESL clubs have (or use) PA systems. Possibly one or two over-use them to make up for it!

[Mr Happy]

Toilets are there. They need plumbing in though. Disabled toilets are another issue. Although they do not have to been inside the ground, Brimmo have been saying for a year and a half that one will be installed in the clubhouse.

[The Invisible Man]

Err, so they're not really there then are they, not in the official functioning legal pee-at-half-time sense?

 

Brimsdown, and by extension ETFC, are in that case committing an offence.

[Mr Happy]

Nope but Very Little Miss Happy needed a pee towards the end of Saurday's game and I was soo fed up of having to take her to the bar that she did one behind the un-plumbed bogs!

[Chopper]

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Yep they have but it's some of the little things that concern me such as lighting in the stand for the press and emergency lithgting around the ground.. Mind you, we've always got Chopper's hair colour to full in!!

OI just you aint got any hair Happy !

[The Invisible Man]

When I say that BRFC and ETFC are possibly committing an offence, I mean by contravention of the DDA, in that as service providers they are obliged to have accessible toilet(s) available.

[zody]

Interesting...very interesting, reminds me of rowen and martin show, pre 1970,s, the bloke looking through the bushes and saying Interesting...very interesting <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laughuncontrollable.gif" alt="" />

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When I say that BRFC and ETFC are possibly committing an offence, I mean by contravention of the DDA, in that as service providers they are obliged to have accessible toilet(s) available.

I don't think that perceived breaches of Part III of the DDA are really 'offences, as such. Its for an individual who belives they have been disadvantaged to bring a claim through the civil courts. The court will look to apply a test of reasonableness and proportionality in deciding the outcome. I'm not sure that many cases have yet been brought so there's little or any evidence of how the courts are treating such matters. The important thing, I guess, is for those whose facilities are challenged to recognise that they need to make adjustments wherever they can. That will probably require the courts to take a firm line.

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[The Invisible Man]

This is true. The whole DDA thing is a bit of a confused mess, frankly. Many companies have apparently gone way over the top and wasted huge sums in unnecessary work.

 

A defence (if necessary) is likely to be to show that you have carried out an accessibilty audit and seriously addressed the issue, done what you can and identified what can/should be done in future.

 

Provision of accessible toilet facilities is a basic issue however, and I'm surprised it did not come up under both planning and building regulations. Obviously I am not aware of exactly how these approvals were obtained and so on.

[Big J R]

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Interesting...very interesting, reminds me of rowen and martin show, pre 1970,s, the bloke looking through the bushes and saying Interesting...very interesting <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laughuncontrollable.gif" alt="" />

You're showing your age, Zody !!!



The guy you are referring to was the GREAT American comic, Arte Johnson.



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[color:"red"] Interesting...very interesting, but Stoopid !"

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[Anfield Towner]

Surely not even all the Premiership grounds meet the pitch standard requirements! As for lighting and writing facilities for the press a torch and a pen seem to cover this!

[Steph]

No football Anfield?