General 19/09/2023 - OCC Cabinet Meeting

[Jonny G]

Clr Brighouse, you are a legend! The Clr needs an email at the end of this thanking her for her support. THANK YOU!!

 

[Jonny G]

Clr Enwright here is spot on too. Trying to protect the club whilst moving this forwards!

 

[holdsteady]

McIvor has gone home with the nuclear nut job, hope they are both happy together in their bunker.

 

[unification]

Leasehold is good for us, right? As long as the rent is reasonable of course. Peppercorn has been mentioned but the devil is in the detail.

 

[Billyox]

McIvor has left the building?!

As I said right at the beginning of this thread she goes awol

 

[Concretebob]

Another break

 

[bazzer9461]

Another adjournment ffs

 

[unification]

Another adjournment on 'getting the wording right'.

 

[Jimmycarterxi]

Another break!!!! Obviously they didn’t have time for pudding earlier!!

 

[OUFCwaffle]

5 minute break to get the final words together

 

[Sarge]

aaaaaand another break

 

[Chippy]

One way or another its going to be a YES

 

[captainox]

Surely the wording on what they're actually deciding on could have been agreed at the start of the meeting ahead of all the discussion.

 

[BrockBuster]

Leasehold is good for us, right? As long as the rent is reasonable of course. Peppercorn has been mentioned but the devil is in the detail.

Yeah Man City, Newcastle etc don't have the freehold to the land their stadium is on (is owned by their CC), so wouldn't be an unusual development.

 

[SwissYellow]

Ithink this is going to go through, they're not debating it, they are now focusing the detail around the wording of the agreement

 

[n1]

This feels like its all going in the right direction and everyone knows it. Just the detail to go through before vote

 

[SteMerritt]

I've relented and finally put on the live stream, and the first thing I see is them announcing another adjournment... Is local politics always this exciting?

 

[RyanioBirdio]

A leasehold is in principle the best way to secure the football club as it makes any terms and restrictions of use far more robust, and ultimately a lot more enforceable. The council will be minded to protect the club as a cultural asset and it would carry significant political weight, in terms of fans being able to hold them to account should they ever cause harm the club.

What is obvious here, especially with this additional break, is that they’re going to allow the club to build a stadium subject to planning approval. It’s going to be a ‘yes’.

 

[Manorlounger]

This is painful to watch.

 

[Joey]

Frustrating but if they're concerned with getting the wording right then it has to be positive, they want to vote yes just under the right terms. No issue with that, if they were telling us no then there's no need for this little break.