Car park at Oakwell

Barnsley fc don't own any land

 

Me!

 

I know mate.

But seriously don't see a problem. It's effectively empty land that the council own so should be developed. More cash in the coffers.

 

Done alright out of saving us did Patrick. Glad he did like but he got an hell of a lot on the cheap.

 

I bet he'd have got more from his £6 million elsewhere.

 

You really should get our more.

 

I agree - even as a Barnsley fan I don't want to live in the car park thanks!

 

Well done the club, looks a right **** hole around the Old brewery, Beevor court - surprised that boundary wall hasn't fallen over an all. I'd tear all those trees down an all behind the East, open it up and extend the car park and widen the exit. A linking road down the back of the training pitches to the back of Halfords to join up with Harborough Hills could ease the traffic as well. Greenpeace and all that.

And l'd kill all the foxes.

 

Have we really got a housing shortage? New homes aren't selling, is this due to the prices? They've had to flog half of our new estate off to the Housing association because they couldn't sell em.

 

Lol

At one time this would have been BFC's land to develop.

 

12 units and the current price of land

hardly going to make much of a dint in what the owner has ploughed in, but still, he's entitled.

 

Re: 12 units and the current price of land

Not saying he shouldn't utilise his assets, just lamenting how much BFC have lost in recent times.

 

Cant sell for £1million

bearing in mind a bid of £4million was turned down by Dunham. Says a lot.

 

Re: Cant sell for £1million

Who bid that ?

Matt Dunham, one day I shall track him down....

 

Planning Application Details

http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/about/ho...ing-application/?planningApplication=20111561

 

Re: 12 units and the current price of land

I think PC will put his share of the sale into the club coffers and withdraw it at a later date as part of what he is owed through the outstanding loans he has let the club have in the past, because as it stands he aint going to see all of that money repaid anyway. That way it makes it look like he along with the council aint sweating the assets.

Once part of the land is sold off expect the council to return quickly for more.

Just my thoughts.

 

I don't cover Barnsley but I've just had a quick glance at there last Strategic Housing Market Assessment from 2008 (they're required every 5 years so an updated version should be coming out this year). There are 11,540 households in housing need in Barnsley, and a need for 767 affordable homes per annum to meet emerging and exisiting housing need.

The (now defunct) Regional Spatial Strategy (an evidenced base assessment of new housing required) provided Barnsley with a target of 1,015 homes per annum acorss all tenures, and there is expected to ba a 24.2% growth in household numbers in the borough by 2029. This is based on a variety of factors, such as change in aspirations (single people living alone prior to forming relationships, natural population growth and in migration).

As for on your estate it could be one of two things. Firstly, new developments are required to provide a proportion of the site for affordable housing which are transfered to housing associations. Or in some instances housing associations have bought homes that developers have been unable to sell due to the lack of mortgage availability, which is one of many (complex and inter-related) reasons for the poor market conditions.

 

What, on land he has nowt to do with?

 

We own no land..

 

In who's coffers?