I think Peter Box is immune to criticism. Having been in that post for so long. By now his ears should be mere charcoal stubs after all the remarks that I've heared about him and that woman sidekick, Jeffries. The one that I think would be most embarrassed is RMW. He likes to come across as a man of the people and I was at the SoS hearing when he stood in the witness box and boldly claimed that," He was instrumental in Delivering the new Webmbley Stadium" (or words to that effect). He must feel something of an idiot when he couldn't even deliver a modest community stadium in Yorkshire.

My though on it is that if the club have a strong case, the lawyers will confirm this, then the council will start to worry. Worry them enough with the prospect of having to defend themselves in court where little secrets may become exposed to the public, and they will quickly throw the developer under the bus in the hope of saving themselves before it makes it to court. What happens then is anyone's guess. My take is that best case we can hope for is that the council will loan the trust the money to build a stadium which the interest will need to be paid on, and the council will force the newmarket developer to actually promote and develop the site so the council can recoup the costs

this legal process will take years to come to a solution- we have about 3 weeks to make a decision not years!! we are supposed to have a game at bell vue in 36 days!!

No reason that game can't go ahead, the lease is until the end of the year at least

Yeah I had a read through that & it made for a fairly interesting read tbh. The point you make about LA's not meeting their legal obligations around a S106 & ended up being sued, is obviously going to be the thing that makes or breaks the case where we're concerned. It's a long time since I did my A level Law but as I remember it, as long as a solicitor when he investigates what's been going on in the past 7 years or so, can find legal precedents that have enough similarities to ours, they should advise us to take it forward.

Hopefully if this is all positive and we are advised to move forward on this , like Egg Banjo says, it then gives WMDC the kick up the backside & they pull their finger out to use the power they have. To somehow move this Community Stadium/facillities and warehousing forward.

Like I mentioned on another thread, when you read all the documents that WMDC put forward on the planning portal about the development at Newmarket & all the great things it was going to do for the City. Not only in a sporting sense (at last we were finally going to get a Community sporting village of sorts, that had been talked about for years) but also in a job creation sense (where it was going to create around 2000 jobs) and at virtually no cost to the LA.
I also remember something about Leeds MDC wanting to do a development on the other side of the M62. It all just made you think what a prime development location it is in & it is. Yet we sit here coming towards the end of 2017 & nothing has been built towrds the trigger point of the Community facilities & only 125 jobs or so have been created. Surely even if you had nothing to do with Trinity or RL, it's an unvelieveable story & crazy it hasn't all happened.

I would not have thought that any legal action would be taken by the Club who were only ever going to be anchor tenants at the Community facilities at Newmarket . I would presume that an legal action would be taken by the Trust.

MC said that he'd finance a legal challenge that's why I assumed it was the club and not the trust.

Maybe the club is takingbthem on about the leaee agreements the 106 was clear about peppercorn to trust and then the trust renting to the club with the club paying running costs but getting a widr use of the income from facilities. Now it appears the new direction is for a commercial rent for the club so where is the charitable trust and more importantly where is the money going in the proposed new deal?

MC sits on the trust too doesn't he?

From what I've read a judicial review is held at the administrative court and is a relatively quick process. It's not a criminal or civil case, they're only looking into whether proper procedure was followed. It could be done in 2-3 months?

He does yes.

Could the club possibly have a case for restraint of trade? The astronomical and ridiculous figure mentioned for rent of BV would surely hamper the clubs ability to conduct its business?