Tonight’s council meeting

By Wakes (Wakes)20/9/2023 21:36Wed Sep 20 21:36:54 2023

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Just watched the last 45 mins of tonight’s council meeting on the Spelthorne borough You Tube page to debate the removal of the covenant (section 106) proposed by the Thames club in their aim to remove Staines Town Football club from the deeds. It was quite a hard watch with around 15 councillors in attendance who had very limited knowledge in anything football related, so from what I can make out was to get a show of hands for the proposal to be recommended or refused. They needed to know if Staines Town FC still actually existed in some capacity and incredibly no one could find anything concrete to prove that we did still exist albeit under a different name. The only link to Staines Town FC they could find was Steve Parsons who was not in attendance at that point and it was therefore recommended that he be contacted to shed some light on this issue. A show of hands was given at the end with 5 in favour, 6 against and 3 abstaining. I believe the majority didn’t want to see the end of a Staines football club in the Town after such a long history. The chair then advised that the Thames club can now make a formal application to get section 106 removed.

All in all a hard watch with a large majority of councillors not fully understanding the situation and a lot of grey areas. Would appear everything is still up in the air. From what I can gather because of what’s written in the deeds it appears that Staines Town Football Club will need to prove its existence and the name of Staines (and Lammas) may go some way to proving that perhaps by reverting back to Staines Town football club (if that is actually possible)