Villa Park Redevelopment

[Sexual Ealing]

Much as I want us to be competing and winning trophies, it isn't worth acting like scumbags and kicking people out of their homes just so as we can make some extra money. We certainly couldn't claim to be a community club.

It's also easy to support it when it isn't your home.

Correct.

[Hopadop]

These things have a way of sorting themselves out - Link

[Risso]

It's about as likely to happen as SHA winning the Championship this year, so not sure it's worth getting upset about.

[VillaTim]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

Doug did it, there's only a couple of houses left now on Witton Rd, them terraces used to run all, down that road. Think most of them were council houses and the deal was with them

[AlexAlexCropley]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

Doug did it, there's only a couple of houses left now on Witton Rd, them terraces used to run all, down that road. Think most of them were council houses and the deal was with them

Witton Lane not Road.

[dave.woodhall]

Plus it was a different world then. Most of the houses were derelict and back then they'd cost pennies.

[TelfordVilla]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

I get your point but it wouldn't be like that. AVFC could afford to compensate people handsomely and I think they would take the offer. We could offer vastly over the going rate for a terraced house in those streets and it might cost the club in the region of 5 million quid which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

What if they don't want to go?

CPOs I guess.

Lovely. Kicking people out of their homes to help a football club would be such good publicity.

  it's not like they would be made homeless. The compensation would get them somewhere much nicer than witton.

Perhaps they like living in Witton.

well they could stay in frigging witton then. Simply move a few streets away. Jesus christ.

[dave.woodhall]

Why are you getting so rattled at the idea that someone might want to stay in the house where they live and not be forced out on the orders of a football club?

[Drummond]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

I get your point but it wouldn't be like that. AVFC could afford to compensate people handsomely and I think they would take the offer. We could offer vastly over the going rate for a terraced house in those streets and it might cost the club in the region of 5 million quid which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

What if they don't want to go?

CPOs I guess.

Lovely. Kicking people out of their homes to help a football club would be such good publicity.

  it's not like they would be made homeless. The compensation would get them somewhere much nicer than witton.

Perhaps they like living in Witton.

well they could stay in frigging witton then. Simply move a few streets away. Jesus christ.

Yeah, fuck 'em, right?

[Drummond]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

Doug did it, there's only a couple of houses left now on Witton Rd, them terraces used to run all, down that road. Think most of them were council houses and the deal was with them

And Doug was a prick too.

[Drummond]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

I get your point but it wouldn't be like that. AVFC could afford to compensate people handsomely and I think they would take the offer. We could offer vastly over the going rate for a terraced house in those streets and it might cost the club in the region of 5 million quid which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

What if they don't want to go?

CPOs I guess.

So force them out when they don't want to move, just so a few people can watch a football match. Charming.

[VillaTim]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

Doug did it, there's only a couple of houses left now on Witton Rd, them terraces used to run all, down that road. Think most of them were council houses and the deal was with them

And Doug was a prick too.

Oh he most definitely was.

[Ads]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

I get your point but it wouldn't be like that. AVFC could afford to compensate people handsomely and I think they would take the offer. We could offer vastly over the going rate for a terraced house in those streets and it might cost the club in the region of 5 million quid which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

What if they don't want to go?

CPOs I guess.

So force them out when they don't want to move, just so a few people can watch a football match. Charming.

How do you know they wouldn't want 110% of the asking price of their home?

[HolteL4]

If they don’t trust the waiting list data - how about seeing if people will put money down?

I certainly would. I’m not sure how fair that would be, but it would be a way of judging it.

But they trust it when it comes to Season Ticket Renewal time, when the prices go up and we are being threatened with being replaced by one of the 30k on the waiting list.

[Chris Harte]

Is it just me that baulks at the suggestion of 'just clearing the houses away l' behind the Witton Lane?

I get your point but it wouldn't be like that. AVFC could afford to compensate people handsomely and I think they would take the offer. We could offer vastly over the going rate for a terraced house in those streets and it might cost the club in the region of 5 million quid which is peanuts in the grand scheme of things.

What if they don't want to go?

CPOs I guess.

So force them out when they don't want to move, just so a few people can watch a football match. Charming.

I assume no-one's asked whether the people who would be affected would actually want to move. If it is part of the plan then maybe find out who'd be willing to leave.

A while back one poster here said they had a friend living behind Witton Lane who was hoping to be bought out eventually. I imagine there will be those who have the opposite sentiments, though.