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All these posts about moving grounds btought to mind going to away games. In the seventies we visited Guildford at three different grounds in consecutive seasons. The first one was at their home of St Joseph's, then at Dorking fc, then finally at the Metropolitan police ground. I used to love going to the away games in that era.
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Yes. I made all those trips too and later lived and worked in the Guildford area, regularly driving past the old Guildford City ground (now flats) and the Met Police ground.
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I don't suppose there will be too many of us regulars left from those days. I know that the Breeds family are no longer with us. Do Guildford have a team now, do you know?
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I recall that there was Guildford and Godalming FC but Guildford City FC now play in the Southern Combination Div 1 (Step 6)
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Good that they still have a team. They were a pretty good team back in the day. Not many grounds still survive from those days though.
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Romford and Hillingdon both regular opponents in those days. Romford are in a similar position to us, ground sharing and looking to find a ground of their own.
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Yes, went to both of them. I know it has been fifty odd years, and a lot can happen in that time ,but how many of the clubs from that era, moved ground, and found themselves better off? Like others , I believe that our demise started when we left Manor park. Yes, we had some success at Liberty way, but to me, it never felt like a home match when playing there, much like it does playing at Bedworth.
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In 1977 the Boro attempted to buy Romford's Main Stand & 4-pylon floodlights at the Brooklands Stadium.
The Main Stand was built in 1964 & run the full length of the pitch.
The Boro were looking to improve Manor Park at the time, in an effort to bring it up to Football League standards.
The sale never materialised.
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Brooklands was also a Speedway Stadium.
It was the home of the Romford Bombers speedway team.
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I believe, Margate, Dover, and Bath, plus the Adders of couse. Not sure about Cheltenham. Plus Telford.
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Cheltenham, still play at Whaddon Road but it has all been modernised since Boro played there in the 50’s and 60’s.
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And 70's, 80's and 90's
Note to self, 'be careful what you wish for'
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I remember a 3-2 win at Cheltenham must have been 81-2ground near the racecourse. Tommy Robson was playing for us
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That was our 1st game in the Southern League after relegation from the Gola League. We were 2-0 down at half time. A player called John Jones got 2 of the goals.
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I think he was captain and played in midfield
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Another great player . We have had so many.
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Sure was. One of my particular favourites.
Little by little.
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He went to Stamford when he left us (they were a few divisions below us then - how times change, eh?). I went to see them play Stansted in the Vase final at Wembley that season, and though Stamford lost Robson was far and away the best player on the pitch.
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He was a winger, who joined the Boro from Peterborough United, where he made 482 appearances, scoring 111 goals.
He died in 2020.
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I thought they were still at their old ground but had not bothered to check. An example of a team that has thrived by developing their ground, as and when , they had the means. i sincerely believe that if the Boro' had done that in the late sixties, when , following the cup run, and with the crowds we had then, we would still be at Manor park.
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We’d still be at Manor Park if the Council had not sold the ground to the Club for peanuts in 1979.
I know people who were in the room shaking their heads because they knew exactly the calibre of people who had run the Boro over the years!
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Do you know the circumstances as to how Ian Neale took control of the club? From memory , he had no involvement with the club, other than being the contractor in the build of Liberty Way. It seems , from memory again ,that he took control fairly soon after the stadium was compleated. Was he just handed the club, or did he buy it off Kerry and co?
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My memory is
1 Stocker wanted his money back from the Nuns.
2 The Nuns did not have this money.
3 The only way the Nuns could get the money was to sell Liberty Way.
4 Stocker suddenly gets involved at the Boro and the move is agreed.
5 Stocker appoints Neale to build the ground to minimum requirements.
6 Result - Boro get a ground; Nuns get Stocker off their back; Stocker gets his Money; Neale gets a nice contract.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but.........
....... Was the liquidation of the club, the tearing up of the ground share agreement and Neale owning a football club the plan from day 1.
I have also been told that the Tech needed to expand, but could only build on the football fields. To do this these playing fields had to replaced. Liberty Way had loads of space. Who better to build the expansion than someone who had access to playing fields not too far away?
The Building/financial crisis put an end to these ideas.
>>>> Former Nuneaton Boro fan <<<<
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Yes and the Nuns have a stadium paid for by the Boro , they must be laughing there socks of how things have turned out ,but all that and everything else that gets mentioned on here time and time again is in the past, i for one am sick to death of reading the same old thing time and time again.
Just remember we are now CIC registered club , being run properly buy great people , many many sponsors, and volunteers, so for a nice change no more negativity more positivity please.
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Well put, we all need to get behind the board, managers and the team ,what they have acheived so far as been fantastic and the football better than we could imagined.
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Are you part of that team that run the club boro44 ?
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No , I’m one of the many volunteers , and have watched the Boro since the early 1950s.
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Your continued fundraising activities eg golden goal are highly appreciated.
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The only bit you missed out was distressing the Nuns to go bust to get access to purchasing those fields.
* not saying the theory was right or wrong *
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YUP VS.
thats about it in a nutshell.
all nicely presented.
the losers ??? yep...you dont need many marbles between the ears to figure that one out. EH !!!!!!
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From memory ( but dont quote me ) the club was going bust and he offered after due diligence to take it on, he then proceded to go bankrupt and start again building the seated stand with his soon due to fail business.
Allegedly never took a penny in wages out of the club for himself but I was told his wife had a tidy income out of it .... true or not ?
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I think the official story was Club was in financial distress and the Directors transferred their shares to him because the Club couldn’t pay him for the work done. I think Stocker gave him his shares and that was the key moment.
The Stadiasafe Directors later issue a statement saying the debts were manageable and the Club didn’t need to be liquidated.
Once liquidated he separated the new club from the ground, ripped up the groundshare with the rugby club, and the rest is history!
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I was told by one of the previous directors that he bought the club for £1. He then added "and the tight bastard didn't even give us the £1".
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Since he would have bought the ground from the liquidator, why would any director expect to get any money?
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This was before the club was liquidated. I believe this was at the time that LW was being constructed.
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Yep when the shares were transferred.
And then separately he got the ground front liquidator for nothing. The liquidator later sponsored Boro matches!
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Due to family issues I was not really up to speed on what was going on at the time. The statement by Stadiasafe seems strange though! Surely the club's debts would have been sorted when Manor Park was sold?
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Moving was a foolish thing to do. Selling the Crown Jewels. Most on here were taken in at the time because they thought we needed to move for off field income.
In fact we were 1 million in debt to Bloors before we moved - which was presented as a sponsorship deal.
Then there was a huge capital gains tax bill after selling Manor Park and the compensation payments for the two covenants. So the money ran out before we’d built a new stand.
I guess the Stadiasafe argument was there was enough cash flow to make the debt manageable. They obviously felt forced into handing the shares over.
See here
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/ian-neale-defends-boro-wind-up-3096322
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So basically, there was not enough funds left to pay for the construction of the stadium, which resulted in Ian Neale obtaining the club? If so, the stadium, in reality ,was never owned by the club, as the club was entirely owned by Neale.
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There was a strange theory that the main stand could be built last because of grants which never materialised.
From memory
1 million debt Bloors
420k to purchase ground
900k capital gains bill
225k for the two covenants
500k owed in Director loans
Plus VAT and HMRC debt
Building costs for the stadium
It was a crazy white elephant really
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Reading that, I would say that Kerry and co were the only beneficiaries of the sale. They got their money back, whereas the rest was swallowed up with the purchase of the land , and the various fees regarding the sale. What would have happened had Neale not taken the club on, with his company being owed for the construction costs?
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Kerry was long gone by then
And the Directors didn’t get their money back. Pailton engineering lost a fortune. A cynic might say this was why the liquidation was undertaken.
There was also a strange situation where Neale became a Director on getting the shares then realised a Director couldn’t benefit from the assets of a liquidation so resigned as a Director. So technically it was Stanford and co who took the Club into liquidation then said they didn’t want to.
I think Neale was the only creditor who got paid up for his work.
And of course then got the ground for nothing for his company.
Then thought he’d be clever and shaft the Nuns!
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basically in a nutshell we have been a VERY badly run club TIME AND TIME again
im afraid i have to say where we are comes as no real surprise.
maybe the only real surprise is the fact it lasted as long as it did.
before the inevitable.
the ONE massive surprise for me is how can so called "businessmen" repeatably xuck it up
.......sheer incompetence ? got to be
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Certainly agree with that. There have been some absolute clowns associated with the Boro over the years. I once came up with a Bizarre Mavericks XI of people who had been involved in the running of the Club.
The only two times I’ve had confidence were the original Stadiasafe gang in 91 and then the current group who are trying very hard and doing things properly.
The worst Ian Neale given all the shenanigans and the long lasting consequences.
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was Stadiasafe people like Phil Clayton, Gordon Chislett etc?
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Originally it was approx 13 local business people who came together to save the Boro.
At the time everybody was grateful the Club survived after administrators were brought in in 91 and after the Kelly/Shooter nonsense!
It evolved over time but was similar.
So the names you suggest were there although I think Clayton came later.
Was Kerry the first of the chairman?
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Kerry was the chairman before Clayton, from memory.
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Kerry was the chairman of the interim board while the Shooter Kelly court case was running
The club collapsed financially with debts unpaid relating to the completion of the main stand refurb. The administrator brought in was Hedley Brunt and a consortium headed by Kerry saved the club - I think they all put around 10 grand in. The question remains, which I can't answer was whether debts had been written off or were just restructured with the new consortium money allowing this.
Massive damage done over the years by several individuals who were nothing short of chancers but ask this question?
Was the club ever viable at the higher levels with the support it was getting? In 14 seasons of top flight alliance premier football at both Manor Park and Liberty way the average league attendance was only a tad over 1300. If support can't bring sufficient income in to compete then sponsorship, non match day income and even private investment has to be considered.
My honest option related to the hisotric failures of Nuneaton Boro was the failure to build on the success of the late 60s. The ground issue has been the biggest problem and if Boro had improved Manor park and created a means to make money all year around things could have been different . All.that said Nuneaton was a relatively deprived declining mining town post 1960s and a lack of money was probably always an obstacle as it probably is today.
No matter what is said,is the club really wanted by Nuneaton people these days in sufficient numbers to sustainably finance a club in the top tiers of non league? Personally I don't think it is sadly without major investment and we all know how dodgy that could be. What i see these days is Nuneaton people getting on coaches to watch Cov city and local pubs bedecked in sky blue for big city games. Time will tell if Boro can come back at the higher level but rebuilding trust and obtaining the funding won't be easy.
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I think the payment to creditors was 10p in the £1 and as you say it was administration rather than a liquidation. I do remember local businesses involved in the construction of the stand being disgruntled in the Trib. In the days when Nuneaton News was actually reported by the local media outlet.
There has been a lot of Cov overspill into Nuneaton with all the house building in recent times and the relatively cheaper prices. In my dad’s day there were no Cov supporters in Nuneaton. It was a Villa town then and if you see pictures of the local amateur teams they wore Villa kits. Similar pics in the Bedworth clubhouse of the early Bedworth teams in Villa kits. Although Bedworth has always been more aligned with Cov than Nuneaton. When I was growing up the only Cov supporters were those who had moved into Nuneaton from Cov.
As for Boro gates I think they have gone up when there is ambition and hope. Rushden, Kingstonian and play off matches come to mind. Times have been tough since we were at Manor Park.
I am impressed with the gates at the present time. There does seem a will for a decent standard football to return to Nuneaton. 340 for a pre season friendly much more than we would have got in the JG era. If we can average 5 or 600 we have a chance!
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I think we will maintain last seasons average if we are challenging near the top of the league. Six hundred is realy good when we have to travel out of town for home games. A decent cup run would certainly help.
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I too thought the group that took over the club in the nineties gave us supporters reason for optimism. A large group, with shared responsibilities, which gave stability, and also success on the field. The appointment of George Rooney, along with his assistant, and successer, John Barton got promotion, and also a FA cup run. This of course was soured by the bonus issue., led by Bradder, which led to relegation. Were the board resposible? Quite possibly. Bringing Phillips back to the club though was a master stroke, which gave us one of the most successful and watchable teams we have had.
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imo i know who stitched us up big time, solely for his own ends/gains when MP was sold
as i said you have to be careful what you put in print.
hence no names from me.
agree 100pc that the lads running it are doing a sterling job.
where it will take us i have no idea.
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Yes I know who you mean although I think he took advantage of the situation. He had more antagonism to the Nuns I think than the Boro.
In my opinion the four most stupid decisions:
1) Moving from Manor Park
2) Separating LW from the Club after a contrived liquidation
3) Reneging on the agreement with the Nuns after using that to buy the ground in the first place
4) Not paying rent on an assured tenancy with automatic renewal
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Self interest in most cases.
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But I.N was the Messiah come to save us.
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you ( we ) have to be so careful when it comes to naming names.
they know who they are.
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and the separated the club from the ground it played on.
>>>> Former Nuneaton Boro fan <<<<
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I think, if you look at the Liquidator's Report, Ian Neale was owed £75k(?) also NBBC were owed a similar amount.
The Boro were £1 million+ in debt at the time of the liquidation.
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Around half of the debt was loans made by directors at that time. The directors in question had no intention to ask for repayment - the loans were left on the books "for tax purposes". The actual financial position was not as bad as some analyses showed.
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Yes peanuts compared to what he was actually paid. The Nuns were owed a similar amount.
Liquidators report didn’t include the covenant repayments or the capital gains bill which were subsequently passed on to Boro Leisure as they were charges on the land.
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Did the club own Manor park at the time of the Bradford fire Gus?
The designation of Manor Park under the Safety of Sports grounds Act after that disaster needed money to be spent to improve the ground. So if the council still owned the ground then perhaps they could have contributed to the work needed.to make it safe.
So I suppose if Kelly et al owned it a lack of.money prevented the grounds upgrade to keep the club in the conference in 1987.
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The Main Stand needs to be positioned in the West, with its back into the prevailing bad weather in the Winter.
The opposite side of the Stadium in the East can be a modest open terrace with a lower capacity. Anyone standing on that side of the Stadium will have the Sun in their eyes on a Saturday afternoon.
There is only one new Stadium layout presented in FWP's Project appraisal that, IMO, is suitable.
Gala Field is perfect, the Main Stand would be situated in front of the tarmac footpath & the Eastern terrace could be a narrow standing terrace running parallel to the Wem Brook.
The Town & the Griff could groundshare on Gala Field & both Clubs Junior sides could groundshare at the Pingles Stadium.
The Harriers could happily carry one as before, without the responsibility for maintaining Gala Field.
Everyone is a WINNER!
The longer everyone dances around the Maypole at the Town Hall, the more time will be wasted in bringing NTFC 'Back to Nuneaton' & the more money will be spent by Town, not to mention the lost revenue the Club is facing ongoing by playing at the Oval.
I am convinced that a full size 3G pitch will be constructed at Gala Field at some point, that would tie-in nicely with NBBC's Playing Pitches Strategy.
Most importantly, Gala Field does not have the challenging Planning problems that are faced by all of the other suggested sites that have been considered in the past.
A new football Stadium on Gala Field would complete Nuneaton's sporting hub, on a site that is on the Ring Road & is accessible to all residents in Nuneaton, with excellent transport links.
I rest my case!
Just my thoughts!
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Sorry, I have posted this in the wrong place, it should be higher up the thread!
Edited by VoR at 12:56:51 on 3rd July 2026
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I seem to remember there's a requirement from someone (Sport England?) that there must be two pitches on Gala Field. I have also heard that the council needs to maintain a break between buildings between Attleborough and Coton (that is only hearsay, though). Have you factored one or both of these into your plans, VoR?
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Yes I’ve often mentioned the Sport England requirement. Also when it was actually assessed and measured it didn’t have the dimensions claimed on the putative plans.
In any case you’d have to bribe Griff/Harriers to forsake their 49 year lease. Good luck with that! NBBC can’t offer what isn’t available or even discuss it.
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Gala Field previously had an 8-lane(?) Athletics track with a perimeter fence & a football pitch in the centre.
There was plenty of room on the grassed area outside of the perimeter fence.
I am sure LH posted on here sometime ago that he had overlaid the plans for Liberty Way on the Gala Field site & it fit?
Not that LW should be influential when designing a new Stadium layout for Gala Field.
It would make sense to limit the width of construction alongside the Wem Brook.
A new Stadium can just be built on 3 sides, that is effectively what Maidstone United have done, due to their new site being constrained by the River.
Leases can be re-negotiated if it is beneficial to all parties.
Due recognition should also be given to NBBC's Playing Pitches Strategy, which is their live working document, they are setting the policy.
Just my thoughts!
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Just to educate you as you’ve mentioned the playing pitches strategy document a few times.
Its main purpose was to feed into the review of the local plan. It’s done that. It can also be cited in 106 settlements.
It has no affect whatsoever of where an asset may be leased to a third party. The three site previously offered were not affected by it. Two in Stockingford and one in Whitestone.
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I have been assured that VoR can overcome all the difficulties :)
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Yes they did. I think that’s why Main Stand and front of Cock and Bear got shut down because the ground had a designated capacity of over 10k.
There’s a no question Manor Park would have needed continually upgrading but look where we are now!
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I see. So like you have said all along, the sale of Manor park to the club, by the council , was the beginning of this sorry saga.
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Basically yes. If we’d gone bust there as in 1937 there would always have been the safeguard of the Council owning the ground.
As soon as the Council sold the ground to the Boro the owners were looking to sell the ground and cash in! Kelly did it from 1979 onwards!
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Thank you. You have confimed what I said myself at the time, that the council should never have sold the ground. It also endorses my comments regards the sale of The Lamb to the new owner of Tamworth. Like I posted previously " If you do not learn from history, you are destined to make the same mistakes"
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I wonder what his band of followers think of him now ?
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The council may have sold Manor Park for peanuts, but did well from the eventual outcome. Lifting the covenant netted them over a million, plus , how much council tax do they now raise each year from the households on the site? I honestly believe that the council, for all their promisses of help, wil notl look upon the club's plight with any great urgency.
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Not right im afraid.
The combined amounts for NBBC and WCC covenants was 250k as detailed in the Liquidator's report.
NBBC sold the ground to NBAFC for 25k.
Almost immediately Kelly was trying to sell the ground.
Eventually it was sold for 4 million.
Don't let anybody ever tell you the Councill have never done anything for the various football clubs. They also saved the ground when Nuneaton Town went bust and gave the lease to the new Nuneaton Boro.
It's one of the reasons its been hard to persuade the council to help the club recently. the best argument is that the new Club is CIC and cant run at a loss (or profit).
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The covenant amount, as you say, was a whole lot less, but like I said the overall outcome for the council's coffers has turned out pretty well. As for the council helping the club, in the present circumstances, given the perceived need to build , more , and more housing, their need to find a site for the club will not be a priority.
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It's not a 'perceived' need, it is an actual need.
NBBC have an obligation to guarantee a 5-year rolling supply of land.
Most of the 'Brownfield' sites are now exhausted.
That means they are having to consider building on 'Greenfield' sites, which needs private landowners to bring forward sites for consideration.
NBBC are committed to building 14,000 new homes during the currency of the latest Local Plan (effectively 15 years), 10,000 homes for the Borough of Nuneaton & Bedworth, plus another 4,000 homes for Coventry over-spill.
The Council have their own challenges!
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It is a perceived need! It is a policy decision that politicians have come up with. Other than immigration , the the population of the country is not growing. Like you , I was a baby boomer. This growth, in the post war years , led to the building frenzy that followed. There has been no baby boom in the last few decades.
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It is dictated by the UK Goverment's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which also has to factor in Economic growth, not to mention the Social needs arising!
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The key word there is "economic". Since the eighties ,manufacturing, and industry as a whole has declined. The only need to build more, and more, housimg is to boost the economy.
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It was crazy to sell the ground to the football club given the characters involved running the Club over the years! The responsible civic thing would be to hold onto the asset. Although I suspect one of the clowns running the Club would have been spouting how the Club needed to move for off field income at some point.
I think the best site now for the council, local area and football club would be Stockingford but I suspect a local councillor has put a stop to it for their own reasons and there’s nobody interested enough to overrule them! Only hope is adverse publicity.
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Don't forget NBBC's cash windfall from the Tories 'new housing bonus'
6 times the amount of Council Tax for every new home.
That adds up to a tidy sum!
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They were built long before that!
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The Tories/Liberals 'New Homes Bonus' came in to force in 2011.
It depends on when the new homes built by Bloors sequenced with the Local Plan in force at that time.
The NBBC Local Plan can count homes towards its quota retrospectively, it's a feature/result of the length of time it takes to implement a new Local Plan, typically 5 years!
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The UK Government did not introduce the New Homes Bonus scheme until April 2011. Because the planning permissions, land sale, and initial build stages for the old football ground took place between 2007 and 2010, the development missed the introduction window for the bonus.
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The Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council Local Plan at that time was adopted in 2006.
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You say the 'initial' development.
How many new homes were built after April 2011?
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Let him get back on google and he will reply.
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We are like minded . We were secure at Manor Park, and did not need to buy the land. If you have read my posts regarding Tamworth, I have said as much regarding their new owner wanting to buy the Lamb. Once a saleable asset is involved then you are inviting third party involvement who see it as a business opportunity. It did nothing for the Boro' ,buying Manor Park, and it will do nothing for Tamworth football club, if their property developer owner is allowed to buy the Lamb.
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And we could have bought the Cock and Bear pub
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Could have been one the social club plus extra parking. That would be a better set up than Liberty Way.
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I did not realise that , one ,the pub had been for sale, and two- the club was in any possition financially to have bought it if it had.been.
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As a social club perhaps.
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Definitely an improvement on the Boro Social Club
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AFC Telford United still occupy the same site, although it is a new Stadium now, the New Bucks Head.
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I believe that Bedford moved from their old ground in the early eighties. Of all the grounds we visited way back when, very few are still in existance. It shows that the Boro's story is far from unique.
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There are a few clubs that still play at the same grounds, who were West Midlands (Regional) League clubs at that time.
Bromsgrove Rovers (now Bromsgrove Sporting).
Halesowen Town.
Kidderminster Harriers.
Tamworth.
Also, Stourbridge & Kings Lynn, who were Southern League clubs.
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Margate was one of my favourite away games in the 70s usually followed by a night out in London
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