Clearly no hard cash to buy it.
The covanents issue is a smoke screen and can over turned in the courts and via the trustees of the Goddard estate, so don't bring that up as a reason. This council like very other one has been pissing our money away during the good times. Time to tighten the belt. They are squealing like stuck pigs. They will do a deal the money!
The ultimate threat is to leave SN1, however, as my opening statement says, they have no hard cash to buy it.
They have?, Show me then.
The old board were considering a 250 year lease, obviously they didn't have the money either!!