MCFCHOWELL said:
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I was at a residents meeting and a high ranking official of Moston Juniors stood up and said that the kids club had been ''threatened'' by the council that if they didn't back the plans for the development, then when their lease on the pitches came up for renewal, it would not be looked upon favourably.....
You're not wrong, we left Moston over that; it was clear they were gonna get shafted. What ever happened to that pitch being built on the middle of Boggart Hole Clough running track, nothing. I also seem to remember that they had found out Ronald Johnson Playing Fields had a grant of some kind, then the fields magically ended up with FC after they couldn't build it on Ten Acres.
Moston Juniors received a grant of 750K to build a club house. It was felt they needed more as once built it would need to be maintained etc.
Once Ten Acres Lane was scuppered (amidst rumours City had told the council it was too near to Eastlands....) the council decided to bring the funding for MJFC into the equation for FCUM's stadium.
My understanding is 200K of the 750K went on the pre planning stuff (testing of the land's suitability, soil samples, feasibility studies, underground checks as there's a big mine underneath! etc etc)
So had the stadium bid failed, MJFC would have been down 200K.
Not that there was ever a doubt that the bid would fail......
A Manchester city council led bid having to be approved by Manchester city council planning department...... looking back I even wonder why we locals bothered campaigning against it..... it was an obvious foregone conclusion from day one.
