High Court ruling means work can go ahead on controversial scheme (From Daily Echo)
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High Court ruling means work can go ahead on controversial scheme
9:28am Monday 15th March 2010 in
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- By Simon Carr » Eastleigh Chief Reporter
WORK can go ahead on the Rose Bowl’s controversial hotel after a judge threw out a legal bid to block the development, the Daily Echo can reveal.
The High Court has refused to hold a judicial review into a massive £32m loan by Eastleigh council bosses to bail out the transformation of the home of Hampshire Cricket.
The Rose Bowl Transformation
Critics attacked it as a gamble with taxpayers’ money while the council claimed it would create 200 jobs, bring £20m a year to the area and attract top sports and entertainment events.
As reported by the Daily Echo, three hotel companies – Meridian Leisure, McDonalds Hotel and Shire Hotels – launched legal action but that has now been dismissed by deputy judge John Randall QC.
He said the challenge had “no realistic prospect of success”.
It was feared that if the hotel project was killed off it would have put the whole £48m transformation of the Rose Bowl – including additional seating, hospitality boxes and a championship golf course – in jeopardy.
Comments(14)
The Wickham Man
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10:44am Mon 15 Mar 10
Luda. wrote:Agree totally, but new SMS? Where? what? How?
Get it built, what a venue!!
New SMS to come in the future as well, all looking good in an SO postcode.
Luda.
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10:57am Mon 15 Mar 10
The Wickham Man wrote:Something NC touched on that he would like a new bigger stadium in the future for the Saints.
Luda. wrote: Get it built, what a venue!! New SMS to come in the future as well, all looking good in an SO postcode.Agree totally, but new SMS? Where? what? How?
Militant Ford Worker
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12:22pm Mon 15 Mar 10
5,000 people in Eastleigh on benefits and council is borrowing millions to build 5* luxury Hotel for a privileged few to enjoy. LOL!
This will end in tears, mark my words.
Bring on the tumbrils!
DCM
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12:26pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Militant Ford Worker wrote:Have to agree with you. It's madness the council borrowing to fund this, if it was such a good deal the private sector would have stumped up the cash. Feel sorry for the taxpayers having to fund this whilst receiving little in return.
Amazing. Eastleigh Taxpayers now burdened with £32million debt with no Tenant signed up to deal. 5,000 people in Eastleigh on benefits and council is borrowing millions to build 5* luxury Hotel for a privileged few to enjoy. LOL! This will end in tears, mark my words. Bring on the tumbrils!
Luda.
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12:28pm Mon 15 Mar 10
I would rather the money went on things like this than people on benefits though.
Not all i might add, but for every genuine case, there are at least 10 lead swingers.
Sad to hear about the Ford plant by the way, did my work experiance there as a school kid, and my uncle worked there for 30+ years..
james47
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1:12pm Mon 15 Mar 10
OSPREYSAINT
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3:37pm Mon 15 Mar 10
The Wickham Man
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3:54pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Militant Ford Worker wrote:Only an uninformed idiot with an envious chip on his shoulder would automatically assume that hotels get all their business from entertaining "Posh people". Hotels get their business from other people's business or in other words it is people staying in hotels on business trips who are creating business that in turn leads to more jobs. It is unfortunate that Socialists would rather smash a hotel to pieces so that nobody can stay in it, rather than aspire to become the kind of person who stays in them. One consolation is that on your deathbed you'll still be dreaming of pushing that tumbril when other people with more ability and endeavour than you actually went out and achieved something positive and constructive with their lives.
Amazing. Eastleigh Taxpayers now burdened with £32million debt with no Tenant signed up to deal.
5,000 people in Eastleigh on benefits and council is borrowing millions to build 5* luxury Hotel for a privileged few to enjoy. LOL!
This will end in tears, mark my words.
Bring on the tumbrils!
Interserie
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5:46pm Mon 15 Mar 10
I hope to read in the next few days that the High Court has ordered Mr Janmohamed and his 2 colleagues to pay all of the costs of both Eastleigh Council and the Rose Bowl plc.
The only motive for this case has been a fear on the part of the 3 hotels that they may lose trade when the new Rose Bowl hotel is built. Their pretence to protect the taxpayers of Eastleigh seems to have been seen for what is is by the High Court.
English defence league Hythe division
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5:48pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Waysider
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9:23pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Luda. wrote:And Sainsburys to you mate.
Get it built, what a venue!! New SMS to come in the future as well, all looking good in an SO postcode.
grahamflew
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10:24pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Waysider wrote:Whats sainsbury's got to do with the price of beans. Not going to knock it down for a new football ground?
Luda. wrote: Get it built, what a venue!! New SMS to come in the future as well, all looking good in an SO postcode.And Sainsburys to you mate.
nicko
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10:57pm Mon 15 Mar 10
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AND NOT A SCRAP FOR THE LOCAL KIDS TO HELP KEEP THEM OFF THE STREETS<A SKATE PARK < OR KIDS CENTRE< NO NOT A THING I HOPE IT FAILS:::::::::::
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Luda. says...
10:22am Mon 15 Mar 10
New SMS to come in the future as well, all looking good in an SO postcode.