United against manchester

[Stuka]

You'd have to be a mug to fork out £250 just to make a point though.

[TBM]

What a knob

£1m >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> giving a shit who or what is building/built

[Silver Fox]

So blokey turns down £1M and hatches plot that if succesful will net him £1.25M, how very altruistic of him

[TBM]

So blokey turns down £1M and hatches plot that if succesful will net him £1.25M, how very altruistic of him

Problem is, the £1m was there on the table for him..........he'll probably now be forced to sell at a fraction of the price

[Hoop Blah]

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1485061_businessman-urges-manchester-united-fans-to-buy-his-land---to-stop-citys-100m-training-complex

So this guy wants to stop them taking over his land, how can the council forcibly take over the land just to give it to man city? This has to be against EU legislation.

They're used quite a lot to force through 'public interest' projects and I think there were a few made for the J11 improvements on the M4 (which as a Reading fan you'll be well used to using of course).

[TBM]

How can it possibly be legal for the council to obtain property by force, and turn it over to a financial entity? That can not possibly stand up to EU legislation, with regards to preferential treatment of private financial entities. If that goes through I for one will be putting the case forward to the EU comission, and they'll either have to turn me down or have a look at it.

If he's not doing anything with the land, then i believe they can do so if its in the interest of the city etc

[Stuka]

How can it possibly be legal for the council to obtain property by force, and turn it over to a financial entity? That can not possibly stand up to EU legislation, with regards to preferential treatment of private financial entities. If that goes through I for one will be putting the case forward to the EU comission, and they'll either have to turn me down or have a look at it.

If he's not doing anything with the land, then i believe they can do so if its in the interest of the city etc

If he really wanted to piss Man City off he should make it Dale Farm 2

[Hoop Blah]

How can it possibly be legal for the council to obtain property by force, and turn it over to a financial entity? That can not possibly stand up to EU legislation, with regards to preferential treatment of private financial entities. If that goes through I for one will be putting the case forward to the EU comission, and they'll either have to turn me down or have a look at it.

If he's not doing anything with the land, then i believe they can do so if its in the interest of the city etc

Pretty sure they can still issue a compulsory order for it even if he's living or running a business from it. The current use doesn't matter so much, it's more a case of if it's more in the interest of the area/country to do something else on it.

[Once were Biscuitmen]

How can it possibly be legal for the council to obtain property by force, and turn it over to a financial entity? That can not possibly stand up to EU legislation, with regards to preferential treatment of private financial entities. If that goes through I for one will be putting the case forward to the EU comission, and they'll either have to turn me down or have a look at it.

Compulsary purchase orders- it would be pretty much impossible to build roads, airports, and say Olympic stadia without them.

[Silver Fox]

I look forward to Ideal's complaint to the EU

[Scylla]

I look forward to Ideal's complaint to the EU

Let's hope he can do something about the M4.

[Ian Royal]

How can it possibly be legal for the council to obtain property by force, and turn it over to a financial entity? That can not possibly stand up to EU legislation, with regards to preferential treatment of private financial entities. If that goes through I for one will be putting the case forward to the EU comission, and they'll either have to turn me down or have a look at it.

If by turn down you mean briefly view with disdain and then ignore, I'd reckon you're correct with option a).

[Deadlock]

Please do your best, Ideal. Either way we'll get a good laugh out of it.

[comeonyouroyals]

I'll have you know that part of the EFTA regulations is that any government may not give financial preferential treatment to a private financial entity.
For example, the Norwegian government may not give one big plot of land for free to one football club, and not to all the others. That constitutes preferential treatment.

As such this case is exactly that, preferential treatment - are the other competing companies being given a fair chance to obtain this land, and is it being sold to the highest bidder?

I have previously put forward a case for review, and was satisfied with the outcome.
Perhaps you're putting on faux ignorance, but as far as I know England are also committed to the European Free Trade Agreement, if not it would surprise me greatly.
As far as I can tell, this is an open and shut case and the EFTA commission could impose millions of pounds in penalties if this goes through.

What other companies? Its bad that they are forcing this guy out but its going to improve the area drastically so I'm all for it, he will still get market value for his land and help being relocated so he can stfu after refusing 1mil for it.

[urz13]

Apparently there are only 'limited plots remaining'

[Magnus]

I dunno about this really, in some ways I think fair play to the farmer. Bloody minded he might be but he's sticking up to those bureaucrats at the council and the EU. Someone needs to.