The Future's Blue said:
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
1.6m FCUM community shares
300,000 FCUM development fund
555,000 Manchester City Council
750,000 Sport England
500,000 Football Foundation Stadia Improvement fund (how do you improve a stadium that is yet to be built??!!)
150,000 Football Foundation Community Facilities fund
300,000 other funds and confidentially identified funds
Up to 500,000 (loan) Manchester city council if needed.
Thanks mate. So 1.9 mil from investors and donations and the rest from outside sources,
mainly tax payers money.
I think I might try this myself, might make a few quid out of it.
Really?
I,m surprised our two friends haven't posted the latest story on here yet!! maybe there a little embarrassed. it really is clutching at straws.
FC United’s new stadium could be used by the club to ground-share with another professional team, opponents of the plan have claimed.
A judicial review into the application for the 5,000-capacity ground in Moston heard that the club has agreed with the council that no more than 50 games a season will be played.
But local opponents say planning reports were based on just 30 matches a year.
And they claim the extra capacity opens the door to FC United inviting another professional club in to the ground.
Barristers for FC United told the court that local side Moston Juniors would be invited to use the ground for big games, and residents ‘wouldn’t even notice’.
But Hugh Richards, representing the Residents United Residents Association, said: "The club is not prevented by any planning regulations to saying to another club – for example Bury – ‘come and play at our stadium’ and that is what concerns residents.
"There has been no noise report carried out that has said whether or not having 50 games at this stadium is acceptable."
FC United currently play 21 home games a season as a Northern Premier League side. If the club was drawn at home in every round of the three cup competitions they are eligible to enter, they would host 43 matches.
Sasha White, representing the club, said: "The reason we’ve agreed to a limit of 50 is so that Moston Juniors can be allowed to use the stadium pitch.
"One can reasonably forsee that unless Moston Juniors welcome a guest appearance from Messi or Ronaldo they will draw nowhere near enough of a crowd to make noise."
The court also heard the project could yet collapse if delays forced the Football Foundation and Sport England to withdraw £1.4 million funding. In total the development is set to cost £5.3m with £1.725m coming from donations by club members.
The hearing, at Manchester Civil Justice Centre, came after residents claimed the decision to grant planning permission was illegal as proper impact assessments were not carried out.
Richard Drabble QC, representing the council, told the court that following an initial ‘screening process’ the assessments were not required by law.
He said: "These impacts were of limited magnitude, of limited complexity, were confined to a local area, were entirely predictable and could be mitigated.
"The actions taken were for the judgement of the planning authority and wholly consistent with guidelines from the Court of Appeal."
A decision is expected early next year.
