Nobody has contacted Hull CC apart from Supporters trust , this shows the bidders are not serious in purchasing the club, you would have thought buyer's legal advisers would have made contact for due diligence.
That is what they told Harold Needler when he bought the land Bransholme was built on years later, it is a swamp, too far out of town...
Just another thing which for me shows it was a non starter. Any serious buyer would sound out the Council.
I stood in a huge pile of dog bab in Cottingham once. Took my boots off threw them in the bin and walked home barefoot.
You don’t contact the council for due diligence. You’d speak to them about hypotheticals and wouldn’t go near them unless you’d virtually agreed terms. You can’t just approach a public authority and ask for talks about stuff you don’t even have an interest in. Not in a formal way. The club would be the party responsible for getting assurances from the council and having them to present to any prospective buyer. But for the umpteenth time no one is close at all.
Yes you would contact the council for info relating to planning permission, land ownership boundary changes and upcoming developments and they are obliged to tell you But we might not know if they have
But would you have to? They key part is what land is owned and any development plans already in place. You then know exactly what you have and what has been approved /rejected. When a new owner wants to develop you would submit your own plans and applications anyway. My understanding the only mandatory contact with the council is to inform them of new owners of the SMC.
If the corporation had given assurances and the green light for development on the land, the Allams would hang on to the club.
The Council have no issue with the existing site being developed, something they've reiterated on Burnsy's show this morning, they've also said the triangle of land is also potentially available (though it's not very practical as a development site), only West Park and the fair site are not up for discussion.
The 'triangle of land' as well as being a rare newt site of global importance is also the site of our old Anlaby Road ground. It's also virtually impossible to access by 4 wheel vehicle.
To be fair at the moment we might as well knock three on the stands down and build some casinos and hotels with our attendances at the moment.
I still can't get my head around why they are so against the fair site being made into something, it's so short sited IMO.
It attracts lots of people and makes them lots of money and it's something Hull's famous for, I can exactly why they wouldn't consider giving it up and they claim there isn't another suitable site to move it to.
The site plan at first glance looks a sizeable tranche if land. Take off the fair site, the park, the newts and what remains is leasehold. Back to the extension on a council house debate. The newts?? Oh yes, only on a City football forum would the conversation turn to newts.
One of Assem's ridiculous analogies, it's not a council house, it's a commercial leasehold premises and they're regularly refitted, modernised and expanded. A prime example is the Man City Campus, which has had £200m invested in it, despite the site being leased from Manchester City Council.
They won't release the numbers, on the grounds that it's commercially sensitive information, but it will certainly be significant, the rides pay between £3,500-6,000 each, plus hundreds of pounds for each car, caravan, lorry, generator etc. It's obviously a ****hole for the rest of the year and the area would benefit from it not being there, but they're still not going to give it up.
i was told recently by a car booter that the site where they do the car boots etc is comman land and cannot be built on. no idea if this land is on your map or even where it is.
