Pompey's new training complex at Titchfield has moved a step closer ahead after a group of dormice threatened to stop the project. The club announced its plans for a new purpose build training complex back in Feburary at the former Titchfield Golf and Fishing site; however the planning application was put on hold due to concerns about the environmental impact of the plans.
An environmental survey was done of the side and found the presence of dormice which are a protected species which threatened to red card the project. However since then the club has been assured that the complex can be built without harming the environment as long as certain provisions for the mice are made.
The plans have now been submitted to Fareham Borough Council to consider and a decision due by early next year, and if approved the club hopes to have the development ready by the 2008 season.
Talking to The News Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie said "The application has been a long, long wait which has taken hundreds and hundreds of different requirements which unfortunately we have to do nowadays.
"They have gone on forever; it's part of the application process in the UK I am afraid. We've had to do all sorts of reports on all kinds of things. They take up many, many binders."
"A lot of things came out of the studies and the report of dormice was one of the items. The only place that would be an issue is at the front entrance but we will find a corrective safe passage for them"
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