That was effectively a condition of the original head lease with the Bulls. One that was presumably assigned with the head lease to the RFL? Or at least one they will have been made a party to. The council took out a charhge on the Bulls' assets when the lease was assigned, presumably to ensure they would be more likley to receive compo if the Bulls went bust or broke that covenant? The council will anyway be the determinant in all this, not the RFL, since the RFL will only be able to re-assign the head lease with the council's consent. So I'd suggest quit looking at the RFL and start thinking about what the council's position might be?

...such consent not to be unreasonably withheld

In a nutshell
Could anyone buy the club on the cheap, knock the stadium down and turn it into either homes or factories and make a tidy profit?

Er, what's to knock down?

I'm hearing strong rumours from Red Hall , via media friend , who gives me the fixture list 3 days early so I can book my France trip ( before I moved to melbourne ) , that it's 50/50 and NOTHING decided yet. That was Weds evening your time < Thurs lunch now for me.

Wow! What a scoop!

I suppose my point is that there is 48 hours , it seems , unless BG wants a pay rise , LEFT

You can't build houses on the Odsal site without first spending millions on land decontamination.

On our planet, Wednesday evening tends to be the early morning in the Earth-based version of Melbourne. Thurs. lunch - as in say 12 noon - would be 3 am. On what planet do you live? (Or is there a remote possibility that you're just bullting poorly again?)

"Build houses"? What is that? Wait a minute, oh yes, I do remember I think. There was a fabled time when houses did use to be built. But everyone was, so the story goes, laid off even when the foundations had been finished and loads of money spent, as there was nobody left to buy any houses they might finish. The sites stand silent all over Bradford. But I'm sure that if you could find a new building site that in addition needed millions spending on decontamination, that would make someone choosing THAT as the place, of all places, to start building houses much more likely. Not!

Indeed.

Is that fact or an urban myth? Obviously it depends on what was dumped there is the past but are we talking >100 years ago? The main problem with brownfield sites tends to be from gases generated, I'm not sure this would still be an issue.

That's cos you can't afford to park in't back field with us toffs

Oh come on TT! you know where all the Hot Air from the Council is disposed to! The underground GeoThermal effect it has on Odsal is well known through its distinct Micro Cimate!