Re: Tomorrow Night At The Waterloo - Let's Be Open With The Fan Base

There is a degree of concern involved with the partnership with the council.
This is the same council and in whole, the same board of councillors that refused to help the club out in any manner at Canal Street.
Anyone who attended the Runcorn FIRST meetings at The Linnets would have heard some of the rubbish that Councillor McDermott came out with that night.
At the tome DYPAM wore to every councillor in Halton, yet only one decent response came forward, Councillor Arthir Coles response was one word "Cretins", thats what he felt about the club.
This is the same Council that had a desire for Runcorn FC to be playing at the community stadium in Widnes, in order to help them have a wider access to community funding.
This is a council who leant on the club to incoporate the Halton name into the clubs title.

Suddenly the council now want to get involved.
No coincidence that they are faced with a site that has seen tennats leave and is struggling to sell pitches for use by local Sunday League teams.
The social club itself is half derelict, the all weather facility is dangerous and in need of vast repair, so much so, I wouldnt even imagine when it was last hired out, given the competition from nearby Brookvale Rec.
The bowling green on the site has been left to ruin and the changing rooms are not the nicest.

Conviniently, for the su of £100,000 the council can now renovate a run down site and afford to maintain it, as a result of handing over the land for development to Runcorn FC.
The council know that Runcorn FC can renovate this site for them, as they have access to funsing from the likes of the Sports Council and the FA, as well as people who will maintain the site for them free of charge.

The concern and worry is, what happens when the Linnets access to funding has run out, how easy would it be for the council to evict the club?

What is the possibility of further funding from the council?
£100,000 is a very small figure for them to invest and compared to the millions spent on The Halton Stadium its a very small percentage.

What guarantees and security has the council given to the club?

If a new motorway exit is built at Murder-shaw rounderbout, what impact could this have on this site? It could open up the possibility of the land being sold for a business park or some of the land being sold to build access roads.