Villa Park Redevelopment

[algy]

It’s hard cos some people will accept a ‘good deal’ on their house, but you don’t know what attachment folk have to their house or the area. I think if someone offered me house value + £25k for our house I’d tell them to fuck off, for example.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's not like it would be a take it or we leave a horse's head in your bed offer. It was just an exmple of what the club could do to make sure they aren't fucking over locals. Make it 50k, or the golden ticket of a season ticket.

[The Edge]

It’s hard cos some people will accept a ‘good deal’ on their house, but you don’t know what attachment folk have to their house or the area. I think if someone offered me house value + £25k for our house I’d tell them to fuck off, for example.

I live in Nechells.If somebody offered me 25k for my place I'd take it.

[Dogtanian]

If the club did look to buy homes privately, which would make a lot of sense, then it’s something that would slowly happen as people wished to move or accepted the offers.

As long as the club continued to maintain the properties they do buy and keep them occupied and generally behave as good landlords in the community, there shouldn’t be an issue.

[PeterWithesShin]

And also make sure we don't pull the shit Liverpool did, and the council allowed to happen, of tinning up each house they bought and leaving them to fall into disrepair. Which led to a decline in the area. Which devalued remaining houses because the area was going downhill.

[pauliewalnuts]

The problem is, obviously, they need all the residents to agree to it, or it doesn't work (insert that photo of the single house in China with the motorway surrounding it).

And then, the club would not want to rent out the houses they had bought, as they're just going to end up with renters with rights, another inconvenience. They just wouldn't do it, they'd leave them empty, and that's the gateway to pulling the sort of shit Liverpool did.

I am not sure what the answer is other than lose that park area for the road, and build out there, but I'm not sure how feasible that is.

[Sexual Ealing]

The problem is, obviously, they need all the residents to agree to it, or it doesn't work (insert that photo of the single house in China with the motorway surrounding it).

And then, the club would not want to rent out the houses they had bought, as they're just going to end up with renters with rights, another inconvenience. They just wouldn't do it, they'd leave them empty, and that's the gateway to pulling the sort of shit Liverpool did.

I am not sure what the answer is other than lose that park area for the road, and build out there, but I'm not sure how feasible that is.

When I left university, for long, complicated reasons, I, along with my ex and a couple of friends lived in an empty pub in Norwich under an agreement with the brewery (sort of legitimate squatting). I wonder whether the club could get the band back together? I'd be happy to help. My wife and the ex's husband will take some persuading but I'd do them all (except for the husband) for the Villa.

[PeterWithesShin]

Don't let them fall into disrepair for starters. And with the amount of staff we have i'm sure we could find a use for them, even as digs for youth players.

[Percy McCarthy]

I think the most pertinent bit of that local growth plan published by the council is this bit:

“Investment in Villa Park as a sporting and leisure facility will be supported where it can be demonstrated that any negative impacts on the surrounding community can be mitigated”.

I think this means we’ll get a more sympathetic hearing than in the days of Stewart Stacy.

[Dogtanian]

I get the point about renting, but it would take years to acquire the land you need, so I think it can be managed. It’s the only way you could do it like that.

Tenants will be much easier to motivate to move when the time comes, as long as you’ve done your homework and vetted them and got the right type of renter.

Empty homes, no matter how well maintained, would destroy the area for those still living there.

[pauliewalnuts]

Don't let them fall into disrepair for starters. And with the amount of staff we have i'm sure we could find a use for them, even as digs for youth players.

Well yes, I didn’t feel I needed to specify the disrepair thing, that was covered by the reference to the shit Liverpool pulled.

I think the days where youth players live where the club tells them to live are well gone.

[PeterWithesShin]

At a lot of clubs youth players still stay with host families. Dunno if we do that but it was just one possible option to keep the houses in use.

[Hopadop]

There was a CPO at Tottenham, though I think it was local businesses rather than householders involved. I'm not sure what if any difference that would make, but probably none.

It'll definitely happen if the club want it to. It'll just be a question of what the council would want in return, whilst being careful not to kill the goose that lays the claret and blue egg.

[Dogtanian]

At a lot of clubs youth players still stay with host families. Dunno if we do that but it was just one possible option to keep the houses in use.

I saw an advert asking for volunteer families the other month.

[Sdwbvf]

bet they payed a lot of more for them

Not sure it was/is prime Croydon real estate.

It isn't. It's still probably much pricier than Aston