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  1. According to the article, Quantuma are funding the administration by getting advances from MSD. MSD are securing these advances against the stadium. This implies to me that the stadium would have to be sold or receive guaranteed rent for MSD to get any of this back. The only party that would have any interest in Pride Park as a stadium would be Derby County and nobody is going to pay the "market value" for Pride Park to buy Derby County. Is it just me thinking if this was any normal business, Derby would've been shut down ages ago. My head hurts.

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

    But the land was left for an open space , for use by the people of Bath and surrounds , not ‘to the’  council , the council are the trustees to ensure those wishes are kept,  not for a large proportion of it to be handed to the rugby Club to build a ground

     

    If Bath move away from the Rec, and build a ground elsewhere, I can assure you the land won't be left as an open space.

  3. 19 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

    The Recreation Ground is owned by a Trust

    In a 2002 Court Case The High Court determined that the Rec was held on charitable trusts and the council, as sole Trustee, was charged with maintaining the Rec as an "open space" and "as a recreational facility available for the benefit of the public at large."[8] The terms of the trust specify the Rec should be used for "games and sports of all kinds, tournaments, fetes, shows, exhibitions, displays, amusements, entertainments, or other activities of a like character" and there be no "undue preference to or in favour of any particular game or sport"

    That may be. The council, like Bristol council with our plans, have tried to accommodate this. It's the local opposition that has prevented it, like they prevent most things happening. It was found that one of the objectors had a right to benefit from the covenant but wasn't revealed who this was. It wasn't the council as they didn't object. 

  4. On 05/06/2022 at 17:00, Barrs Court Red said:

    Which begs the question, what is the point? They’ve wasted so many years and so much money on redeveloping the Rec to end up with a small stadium with no room to expand just seems shortsighted. 

    Because Bath is even worse than Bristol for allowing any development that the majority want. If it was student accommodation or retirement flats it would already have been built.

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