Council "live" the day after the Westgate meeting

[Cookie]

Mentions of our club begins at 4mins & ends at 12 mins

 

http://www.thanet.go...aspx?lang=en-gb

 

Good to see Ezekiel speaking FOR the club (Over to you Frankie)

 

Also on listening "fair play" is asked for on a couple occasions.

(i.e. One rule for the council & another rule for MFC & possibly others)

 

I believe constructive discussions have taken place since this meeting so its fingers crossed that ALL parties come to a satisfactory & sensible conclusion on this & that "fairness" is seen to be the winner.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Cookie

[Cookie]

To add to the above, some interesting facts concerning long leases & "fairness" are mentioned here courtesy of Thanetonline in reply to Mr Moores comments on this. Dated March 2nd

 

This relates to a key Thanet issue that Simon raised on his blog about consultation over the disposal Thanet’s council owned leases.

 

 

“DrM. said..The most fundamental change is the treatment of long leases of 25 years or more as part of the overall asset disposal process.

 

The emphasis is now very much on consultation as part of such a process to avoid circumstances where the council is seen to be over-riding the wishes of local people without proper consideration of their arguments.

 

In reply:

Now an important point here is when this change came into effect, because of some of the disposal issues that have come up recently in Thanet. There have been many contentious asset issues in Thanet, part of Hartsdown Park in Margate being the most recent.

 

Here in Ramsgate there are several large council owned assets in prominent positions and some of them have been effected by this rule, Pleasurama where the council granted a 200 year lease to the developer without any consultation, The Maritime Museum where the council invoked this rule in a way that caused the closure of the museum, the slipways where the council used this rule to prevent a developer obtaining a long lease to build a bar complex there.

 

This is essentially an issue about money, as developers need leases longer than 25 years to finance developments on council owned land, hence the council are able to effectively halt the Margate Football Club development, that has planning permission, by not offering the club a long lease. This can also effect grant funding for charitable organisations wishing to run council assets. There is also the common sense side of this, it you are going to run a museum or theatre, you are in for the long hall and can’t invest heavily when the building’s security is a matter of the council’s whim, even if you could I doubt the charity commissioner would let you.

 

 

Cookie replies: I believe public consultation has already taken place concerning our development in any case as was confirmed by Councillor Iris Johnstone at the meeting & in the presence of Mr Moores.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Cookie

[Chris1]

I take it the red writing is Simon Moores. Who is the bold black?

[Coffin Ender]

A Michael Child, I believe.

http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2011/03/thanet-life-simon-moores-moves.html

[Cookie]

Yes, Dr.Moores in RED

Edited March 10, 2011 by Cookie

[SteveB]

Not only is Michael Childs a Ramsgateonian, but also, having followed his blog on and off, seemingly someone with no particular interest in football (though I could be wrong there), which makes his comments completely uniased.

 

Why can't the council adopt his logic in this?