Plainmoor Freehold

Goes to show we don’t actually need a new stadium so CO can piss off. What we need to do is build and consolidate around what we already have. Just need a trustworthy chairman and board with integrity.

loyalgull 

Your eagerness to see progress on the move is commendable Loyalgull, but if there's a Local Authority faffing about, or an MP wondering what political points he can score, then it all get's dragged out far longer than necessary.

However, I think in the short term the emphasis will be on football, and giving a real good go at getting back into the National League at the first attempt. Considerable expenditure on smartening up Plainmoor and improving the playing surface is a clear indication that we're not setting off for pastures new straight away.

There does seem to have been some recent news that points to our move having been made more likely, as a result of last Thursday's Council meeting.


Cllr Derek Mills said that the council is short of millions for revenue budgets for years to come and that it must be run with heads, not hearts. He added: “Oldway is a champagne (Socialist) project but Torbay Council only has beer money. What do you put first, people or bricks and mortar.”

The chronic state of the Local Authorities finances is evident. On it's uppers to such an extent that an amendment was passed at the meeting: 'with an amendment that removed a council commitment that they would fund the £2m of urgent work to deal with problems such as dry rot which need to take place'

In effect the Council has now wrecked their prospect of getting any desperately needed cash from this particular source, either indicates to some that they're already counting on, and factoring in the likely cash injection from the sale of Plainmoor. With local services crumbling even faster than Oldway now will be, it's going to be extremely difficult to justify on the doorstep, preferring to own that monument to Capitalism that Oldway represents, as well as owning a venue for NLS football when a big fat cheque signed by Clarke Osborne is being dangled in front of them, which would help keep the libraries open and the meals on wheels for the destitute old folk of the area.


Cutting themselves adrift from major sources of revenue, while increasing the burden on Council Tax payers who see their badly needed services being cut back or closed; it's a recipe for disaster. Councillors will be forced to come to their senses sooner rather than later. Clarke Osborne knows this, kinder gentler Moderate TUST knows this, Riviera Macron must realise this. 

No Oldway money means an even greater need for, and dependence on Plainmoor money instead. The Osborne Arena project has just received a substantial boost.

link- Financial Basket Case Council Kiss Goodbye To Oldway Millions As It Crumbles Away