Power has always said the training ground will go with the club. If Power decides not to sell Twelve Oaks with the club, he’ll be stuck with a plot of land that he won’t be able to build houses on without further costs and an awful lot of fighting. If he’s sensible, he’ll sell it off as job lot minus the horse stables.
As it stands Power has three plots of land eacgh with a seperate planning permission;
Racing stables which has nothing to do with the club, his aspirations for the club and would be of no interest to any buyer of the club, it does however form part of Powers wider interests albeit as noted above without gallops etc not reallysure of the point of it.
Site for 18 houses, will be worth a fair old wedge of cash, imagine it was argued that this was needed to cross fund the training ground but cannot see any sort of s.106 linking the two permissions so Power has probably got a relatively unfettered consent which will make his a fair bit of wonga.
Now the elephant in the room, the training facility. Power seems to have a few options here,
a) build it and get the club tied into a lease before he sells the club (Alternatively sell the club with a commitment from the new buyer to lease at an agreed rent when complete) - thus securing some on-going income from the club;
b) Include the land with PP within the sale of the club, albeit as the land is ownerd by L Power rather than STFC it would probably make sense for him to do this as a side sale to ensure that Clem et al don't benefit;
c) Hang on to the land to consider further options for it, with a bit of nous there is potential to get housing on it now.
We shall see.