For all the crap they have caused us Yorkcourt should be buying it for us with one of two options. They either...

A -Put it in our/the stadium trusts name and agree to a series of staged payments to enable the full upgrade of the old place or

B -Buy it themselves and let us play there rent rent free until such a time that Newmarket is built and we can move in there. The planning condition is voided at that point and they then have a site prime for housing with planning permission already in place.

I'll get hung drawn and quartered by some on here but maybe the option of coming to some sort of settlement fee with York court to drop Newmarket for a a nice sum that would cover the cost of buying Belle Vue and surrounding areas and buildings + a "little" extra to cover upgrade cost?
Saves them a fair few quid on building Newmarket and we get to own Belle Vue.

Would be nice to own it again, but York Court should not be allowed to get away with what they have done with the aid of a cardboard box.

I for one could quite happily go with that

According to Mick Carter in the radio earlier the covenant does

Very reasonable amount I would have thought - tempting -could it be raised ?

I maybe way off the mark and don't know what I'm talking about but the article says that we have just agreed a 5 year lease.
A few months after this agreed, the ground is put up for sale.
Why would they put it up for sale and miss out on 5 years rent, unless they know they can't do what they would like with it?
As has been mentioned a covenant on the ground.

The owner would get the purchase price now which is better to them than rent over 5 years particularly as they are unable to develop the site, or sell for development until the tenant (the Club) either quit or turn the lease in and the planning condition ( it's not a covenant as far as I'm aware unless someone can point out where it isn't) on redeveloping Belle Vue is removed.

The Stadium Trust were are of this and are acting upon it. Securing BV in the interests of the club would be a positive, be it short, medium or long term.

As for the Covenant, there are conditions, which I think people are referring to in general as a covenant. They are in our favour.

4000 or so Trinity supporters on Sunday, £150 each?

Ha ha, yeah ok Khlav, you've been involved with SWAG so know the problem we had getting people to sign a petition. Imagine asking 4,000 to give £150 each? I bet we wouldn't get a hundred people willing to stump up the money.

The last report I saw from Sir Rodney Walker was the option of purchasing of Belle Vue. Redevelop Belle Vue? Or buy and sell and put towards Newmarket? Would good to get something sorted soon so club can plan long turn but this is also the biggest decision for the future of our great club so it needs to be the right one.

I think it's down to the club to raise the money and secure a commercial mortgage. Once that is done you can start looking at shares/bonds etc to raise money through the support Base. Whilst I'd love to see some level of fan ownership/representation I don't think our supporters generally have deep enough pockets. The lack of pay monthly option on season tickets caused some enough problems.

True.

Carter is looking into the possibility of the club buying the ground back in the radio link. Hopefully the club has a bette reputation amongst the loca businesses to maybe get them onboard with this .

Yes they should – again, jeez some people still whine on about the first time they did it .

I think Box should buy it, it’s not like he’s short of a few quid. Then he could get his cronies to debunk the covenant kick the club off & let it go to even greater rack & ruin. He could ride by every now & then & chuckle to himself.

But seriously, what would any developer do with the site, can you imagine the cost alone for levelling the damn thing. I think the best bet is for the siting of a huge mosque, it could be like Wakefield’s answer to the Dome of the Rock. They could leave the turnstile block on Donny Road & we could all go along with our old programmes reciting our best ever team Wilkinson, Marsden, Higgings, Exley...) that’s one for the old timers .

I wait with the usual trepidation .