Millwall and the antics of Lewisham Council

[Rook]

Soz for my lack of knowledge of the London property market, other than;

1. Its bonkers, and

2. Mate of mine knew that lass from The Apprentice who was an estate agent there.

But why do they sit empty? Laundering, soz, investing, rich folks cash?

Pretty much straight up money laundering. In NYC you can buy 10M apts for cash. It also gives you a place to flee and an tagentable asset in case the govt decides to make you a scapegoat for an ecomonic downturn.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Thread Title sounds like a comic book from the 1950's

 

[degsy]

Sounds like the Dutch Tulip thing all over again to me.

'ere we go, another Koeman plotter comes out of the word work.

 

[tsubaki]

A quick bump to inform anyone who hasn't been following this of the latest developments:

The sports foundation at the heart of the Millwall FC compulsory purchase battle has been making false claims of having a £2m funding agreement from Sport England during the ongoing CPO process, the Guardian can reveal. The claims have been made by the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation, a charitable company set up and backed by loans from Renewal, an offshore-registered developer with historical connections to senior Lewisham council officers that stands to benefit from the seizure of Millwall’s land.

The revelations will be seized on by opponents of the scheme and could throw into doubt the future of the entire £1bn project. The compulsory purchase is the subject of local protest and wider public concern, with suggestions from Millwall’s chief executive that the fallout from the seizure of land around the Den could even threaten the club’s future existence in London.

Sport England is the UK’s most prestigious grassroots sport funding vehicle. The £2m Sport England “pledge” has been mentioned repeatedly as a material factor by Lewisham council and the Renewal‑backed foundation, whose functions are key to the viability of the scheme. Such a grant would in practice act as a major rubber-stamp of viability and authenticity, a threshold that once passed “unlocks” access to other potential sources of charitable and public money.

The £2m claim was present on 25 June 2014 in a report to Lewisham’s mayor and cabinet recommending the grant of half a million pounds of public money to the foundation. It was repeated as “a pledge in principle” in CPO documents produced by the council last year. The claim of £2m Sport England funding has been splashed across the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation website, which was taken down within the past 24 hours.

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According to documents seen by the Guardian, even as the foundation was being awarded half a million pounds by Lewisham council in July 2014 its website still listed its phone number as 01234657890, which connected to an automated message advertising that number for sale. On the same website the Surrey Canal Sport Foundation’s official address was recorded as 29 Acacia Road; an apparently unconnected location in north London that appears, in a bizarre detail, to be a bodged version of the home address of the cartoon superhero Bananaman.

 

[GwladysPhil]

Just flatten them, the leagues and definitely London doesn't need or want them.

 

[canuckblue]

Just flatten them, the leagues and definitely London doesn't need or want them.

Same applies across the park. Norway and Devon might object, though.

 

[GwladysPhil]

Same applies across the park. Norway and Devon might object, though.

Look at the facebook comments on Sky sports -

"I'm a liverpool fan, but losing a club like Millwall is terrible, we should get all fans to unite to save them" Said urjaik simajhl from Kent.

 

[canuckblue]

Look at the facebook comments on Sky sports -

"I'm a liverpool fan, but losing a club like Millwall is terrible, we should get all fans to unite to save them" Said urjaik simajhl from Kent.

He's saying that because Millwall are the only club with a worse fan trouble rep than the Crimson Crud.

 

[GwladysPhil]

He's saying that because Millwall are the only club with a worse fan trouble rep than the Crimson Crud.

They always try to come across as amazing caring fans

 

[canuckblue]

They always try to come across as amazing caring fans

Yep. They care about the nearby residents, the disabled, minority players, obtaining tickets properly, fans of opposing teams. Regular silt of the earth, they are. (And no, that was not a typo.)

 

[GwladysPhil]

Yep. They care about the nearby residents, the disabled, minority players, obtaining tickets properly, fans of opposing teams. Regular silt of the earth, they are. (And no, that was not a typo.)

When you talk to someone on holiday from somewhere like Devon, and they say "To be fair, i don't mind everton"

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/25/millwall-cpo-scrapped-lewisham-mayor

The right decision IMO

 

[Alan Whittle]

I don't have much truck with that lot as you would expect, but this was dodgy on an epic scale. Far too many obvious conflicts of interest.
The thing about Millwall, although they do have a whole mob of Herbert's that come out for big games, their regular support is decent and as a club they have worked very hard in the community and with their academy. The proposal would have ruined that. Great news for them.

 

[Brendan Janus]

What will The F Troop have to say !!

 

[JimEFC]

I don't have much truck with that lot as you would expect, but this was dodgy on an epic scale. Far too many obvious conflicts of interest.
The thing about Millwall, although they do have a whole mob of Herbert's that come out for big games, their regular support is decent and as a club they have worked very hard in the community and with their academy. The proposal would have ruined that. Great news for them.

I had the unhappy pleasure of meeting these Herberts once in Leeds city centre. So did a few other folk. Herberts indeed.