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21:36
Hold your horses
One planning committee member is proposing a condition to bring the capacity down from 90k. The legal man says they can but it has to be justified.

What?

Wembley - must be 'Hold your [white] horses'.
 
21:54
And we're back
All the planning committee members are back at their seats.

21:56
The advice from the legal team
The members can grant the application, refuse it, grant it on a conditional basis or defer but there must be relevant reasons.
 
22:03
The vote suddenly arrived out of nowhere
And surprised most people. It was 5-1 in favour of approving the application.

22:01
The residents are very unhappy
They are remonstrating with the councillors, but the vote has been done and Spurs will play 22 full capacity extra games at Wembley if needed.
 
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So in summary, all we needed was a planning application was / was not
granted to be posted somewhere once the decision was public.
 
From The Guardian...

If Tottenham host more than 27 matches next season, in theory the extra games could only be played to the reduced attendance of 50,835.

Wembley operations manager Chris Bryant, however, suggested Spurs could yet play even those fixtures at full capacity.

“We would look to absorb those matches into the existing Wembley calendar,” Bryant said. “Spurs will be made the priority.”

Wembley must need our business.....bad.
 
Can anyone elaborate on the possibility of staying at WHL next year and only using Wembley for the 2018-19 season? I assume that will only transpire if stadium construction falls badly behind schedule - but if a final decision is needed in just over a week, wouldn't that be obvious by now? Surely we have an accurate 'arrival' date for the new stadium?

And if we were to stay at WHL (my personal preference), what would the capacity look like?

If we have indeed fallen behind, I'm sure Levy can contact the Qatari authorities for some sound advise regarding methods to *cough* speed things up *cough* <whistle>
 
C.Kane said:
Can anyone elaborate on the possibility of staying at WHL next year and only using Wembley for the 2018-19 season? I assume that will only transpire if stadium construction falls badly behind schedule - but if a final decision is needed in just over a week, wouldn't that be obvious by now? Surely we have an accurate 'arrival' date for the new stadium?

And if we were to stay at WHL (my personal preference), what would the capacity look like?

If we have indeed fallen behind, I'm sure Levy can contact the Qatari authorities for some sound advise regarding methods to *cough* speed things up *cough* <whistle>
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We've got just over a week to trigger our existing option to use Wembley next season. If there is an existing, known issue that would sufficiently de-rail our stated current plans, I would have expected us to have called tonight's vote off. Why upset Councillors and residents we might need to support us a year down the line if we know we're not ready? There can't be many issues that would significantly hold up works that will be resolved sufficiently by next week? We must still believe that we will need Wembley for the whole of the 2018/19 season.

I would imagine, we would exercise the option on the final day that it remains open, to allow for any potential problems that could arise between now and then. After that, I would presume there is some penalty payment if we breach our side of the contract and remain at WHL next season. That's just a guess but the facts all seem to point in that direction.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
We've got just over a week to trigger our existing option to use Wembley next season. If there is an existing, known issue that would sufficiently de-rail our stated current plans, I would have expected us to have called tonight's vote off. Why upset Councillors and residents we might need to support us a year down the line if we know we're not ready? There can't be many issues that would significantly hold up works that will be resolved sufficiently by next week? We must still believe that we will need Wembley for the whole of the 2018/19 season.

I would imagine, we would exercise the option on the final day that it remains open, to allow for any potential problems that could arise between now and then. After that, I would presume there is some penalty payment if we breach our side of the contract and remain at WHL next season. That's just a guess but the facts all seem to point in that direction.
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Do you mean 2017-18?

Yes, it seems ridiculous to suggest that a final decision is needed in a week, a public hearing and vote has been held and yet we'd for whatever reason pull the plug and postpone it all by another year.

Unless this is all part of an elaborate and diabolical Levy plan to get his own back on the London Assembly, a plan that will come to fruition on the first day of next season when the whole of Wembley stadium is ready and waiting to receive 90,000 Spurs fans and no-one turns up...because we've all been told through a private email to go to WHL.

As far as I'm concerned, the thought of playing 2 consecutive seasons at Wembley is terrifying.
 
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