Devlin - 6 figure works on county ground - council??

[Asher]

Just occured to me, why oh why are we held responsible for the maintanance of the county ground? We pay a large amount of rent to swindon borough council to use the stadium yet we have to pay for teh repairs? Shouldnt this be down to teh council?

[Panda Paws]

Isn't it ground rent? I thought we owned at least a couple of the stands, just not the ground they're built on ... if you see what I mean.

[Asher]

Possibly, thats why I am asking, dont know enough about the lease so would like more info.

[RobertT]

I presume it's written into the terms of the lease.  It's probably a case of they let us do what we want with the internal fittings provided we then repair them ourselves.  I suppose the alternative would be to let the Council fit it out how they want.

[Asher]

imagion swindon services working on teh county ground -0 it would take them a year to re fit one toilet

[ron dodgers]

I think we (or a previous incarnation of STFC) owe the council over 400k in rent for previous years - guess they won't put in the double glazing 'til we pay!

[Dazzza]

I think we (or a previous incarnation of STFC) owe the council over 400k in rent for previous years - guess they won't put in the double glazing 'til we pay!

I thought I read a quote possibly from MD that we are now clear on rent owed to the council.  This was around the time of Shaw so there has been every opportunity to get back into debt.

That said like you say it's more than likely a previous incarnation