You'll have to be quick as it expires from the website today this evening, Wednesday, but news here about one of the grounds we visited regularly up to 10 years ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-11022020
From about 18 mins 40 sec in. The ground has been abandoned and is in a state, but someone has found a covenant which might prevent it being built on for the next 30-odd years.
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2The problem with covenants is that they offend against the common law rule against perpetuity. In terms that the dead should not control the living.George Street-Bridge wrote:You'll have to be quick as it expires from the website today this evening, Wednesday, but news here about one of the grounds we visited regularly up to 10 years ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-11022020
From about 18 mins 40 sec in. The ground has been abandoned and is in a state, but someone has found a covenant which might prevent it being built on for the next 30-odd years.
Re: Basingstoke Town
3Interesting. I was under the impression that the 1964 Act resolved that question.Stan A. Einstein wrote:The problem with covenants is that they offend against the common law rule against perpetuity. In terms that the dead should not control the living.George Street-Bridge wrote:You'll have to be quick as it expires from the website today this evening, Wednesday, but news here about one of the grounds we visited regularly up to 10 years ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-11022020
From about 18 mins 40 sec in. The ground has been abandoned and is in a state, but someone has found a covenant which might prevent it being built on for the next 30-odd years.
Re: Basingstoke Town
5Well I am not a property lawyer. However assuming you mean the Married Women's property act I'm not quite sure how that he splitting of matrimonial property would affect an old covenant. But it is not an area in which I claim any great knowledge and am happy to be corrected if you know better.papajohn wrote:Interesting. I was under the impression that the 1964 Act resolved that question.Stan A. Einstein wrote:The problem with covenants is that they offend against the common law rule against perpetuity. In terms that the dead should not control the living.George Street-Bridge wrote:You'll have to be quick as it expires from the website today this evening, Wednesday, but news here about one of the grounds we visited regularly up to 10 years ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-11022020
From about 18 mins 40 sec in. The ground has been abandoned and is in a state, but someone has found a covenant which might prevent it being built on for the next 30-odd years.
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6From this point on, as it's about points of law and not football, I think it would be wise to leave it.Stan A. Einstein wrote:Well I am not a property lawyer. However assuming you mean the Married Women's property act I'm not quite sure how that he splitting of matrimonial property would affect an old covenant. But it is not an area in which I claim any great knowledge and am happy to be corrected if you know better.papajohn wrote:Interesting. I was under the impression that the 1964 Act resolved that question.Stan A. Einstein wrote:The problem with covenants is that they offend against the common law rule against perpetuity. In terms that the dead should not control the living.George Street-Bridge wrote:You'll have to be quick as it expires from the website today this evening, Wednesday, but news here about one of the grounds we visited regularly up to 10 years ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-11022020
From about 18 mins 40 sec in. The ground has been abandoned and is in a state, but someone has found a covenant which might prevent it being built on for the next 30-odd years.
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7Update on local news last night - they have planning permission for a new site in Basingstoke. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-51551362
And: https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/ne ... -approved/
And: https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/ne ... -approved/
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