Quote: Scarlet Pimpernell "The council have a duty to consider all their ratepayers. I would expect that they must ask for a commercial rent to be applied or they would be in breach of their responsibilities.
If you were a resident of Featherstone and the council were to proceed on a peppercorn rent then would feel it was a good use of a council’s limited funds.
I would remind some that it was the club who withdrew from the arrangement, so I suppose unless they tell us why we will never know leaving some posters to make wild accusations which are currently based on nothing more than hear say or the famous man in the pub.'"
The club has always said that they need to utilise the profits from sales within the ground to make the club viable. The tool from the council in the press release seemed to be aghast that the club should want this. There is no inconsistency from the club on this, as the club has always said that agreeing to something that doesn't allow the club to grow merely postpones the slow death.
I doubt a slightly higher rent would be a sticking point, other than perhaps a point of principle, on the assumption that all associated insurances and maintenance costs came out of that rent.