OK. Thanks for that. It explains why the council expected our club to address all the H&S issues.
I am party to a similar lease. 25 years in our case. The rent is adjusted every five years. An opportunity for the landlord to turn the screw.
I'm surprised that the feeling at Halifax is that the council should find a third party who is willing to buy the ground and lease it back to the sports clubs. At the moment the council are running the ground at a loss.
Any third party will most likely be wanting to make a handsome profit.
We don't want third party ownership, but we also don't feel the clubs are capable of running the stadium. We are currently being run with no ambition, there is no effort to grow the club. Dont take this the wrong way but traditionally we have been a bigger club than Alty. However on our forum we use Alty, as what we should be doing. You're showing ambition and are signing players, engaging fans and opening club shops. Things we don't seem able to do. I would say you've already passed us now.
There is no way our two clubs could run the shay outright, it would need a major culture shift especially at the football club for it to work. However we do need the freedom of not having the council make out decisions for us. We make nothing off any sales at ground and are. The councils mercy with any groind/pitch improvements.
Like I said a not for profit trust(like we did in past) with representatives from both clubs would be the best option to most fans. Would allow us to have more say and freedom of using the Shay and actually benefiting from it and also the community. The Shay is criminally underused by the council, as they don't care or have the means to do more.