Foxes Trust apply for ACV status for KP Stadium

[fox58]

Foxes Trust on the moan in talking about this

 

[fox58]

Re: Will the Foxes Trust be applying for ACV status for the KP?

confirmed they have applied for an AVC

 

[M17TT C]

Re: Will the Foxes Trust be applying for ACV status for the KP?

****generic moan about Foxes Trust****

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[Jeff]

PRESS RELEASE
The Foxes Trust has asked Leicester City Council to list the King Power Stadium as an Asset of Community Value


Foxes Trust paves the way for fans to have a say in the King Power Stadium’s future

Foxes Trust, the Leicester City Supporters’ Trust, announced today that it has submitted a nomination to Leicester City Council for the King Power Stadium, home of Leicester City Football Club, to be registered as an 'Asset of Community Value' under the Assets of Community Value Regulations of the Localism Act (2011).

The listing of the Stadium as a ‘Community Asset’ by the Council would mean that should the stadium’s current (or any future) owner look to sell it, the Leicester City fan community would have the opportunity to secure the Stadium’s future.

As a properly constituted Supporters Trust, the Foxes Trust is recognised under the Localism Act as a community group able to lodge such an application. In its nomination to Leicester City Council, the Trust set out a number of reasons why the Stadium qualifies as an Asset of Community Value, however the Trust feels the main benefits of obtaining the listing are:
Reducing the chance that, without prior notice to the Council and community, Leicester City Football Club could move to another location.
Protecting the Stadium’s use as the venue for Leicester City Football Club for current and future generations.
Ensuring it continues as a site for delivering social benefit and community value, through the continued hosting of Leicester City matches and the associated community activities Leicester City undertakes.
Leicester City Council now have up to eight weeks to make a decision whether to list the Stadium as an Asset of Community Value.

A successful listing would mean that, should the owner of the asset wish to sell they will be required to notify the Council and the Foxes Trust, who will then have six weeks to lodge a non-binding expression of interest, in which case a window of opportunity of a further four and half months, (making six months in total), will come into effect to delay the sale.

The full moratorium period exists to afford community interest groups sufficient time to prepare and raise money to bid for the property, potentially in competition with other interested parties.

Commenting on the application, Foxes Trust Chairman, Ian Bason said “The fear of any football fan is that the club they have supported all their life is suddenly moved to another location. It happened at Wimbledon many years ago and more recently at Coventry. Such decisions give scant regard to how they affect the lifeblood of the club - its fans.”

“We would like to make it crystal clear that our application would have been submitted regardless of who the current owners of the stadium were, and that the change of stadium ownership from Teachers to K Power Holdings Company Ltd within the last year had no bearing on the decision”

“We have no reason to believe that King Power has plans to sell the stadium or club, however one day that time will come. Having experienced a change of club ownership twice since the Trust was part of the consortium which owned the club, we believe listing the stadium not only protects the stadium, but also opens up a pathway to dialogue with any new potential owners of the club and stadium, so we can seek assurances on their plans.”

“We invite Leicester City fans in the community to contact their local councillor to express their support for the nomination and we will also hope that supporters will recognise the benefit of having a Trust which is able to take these type of actions, and show their support by joining the Foxes Trust.” http://www.foxestrust.com/join/joinwp.htm

Bason then went on to explain the national picture “Currently around 15 Supporters Trusts are at various stages of the process of getting their stadiums registered. Old Trafford and Anfield are already listed and last week the Ipswich Trust were the latest to get their application approved”

 

[fox58]

trust also said further building is planned for the old Filbert St site, they are hoping to put pressure on the council to name any new streets after former players

 

[spionfox]

Old news.

FT members had an email about this earlier this morning but I honoured the embargo :icon_lol:

 

[fox58]

Trust were asked how many members they have, the reply ''that is something we never disclose''

 

[Durham Fox]

Well they've got to spend that £10k on something...

 

[lazzer]

Good idea actually

 

[David Gwilliam]

On this forum it is fashionable to denigrate the Foxes Trust but it seems to me that they are quite right. There are thousands of Leicester people who (sadly) have no interest in the Jewry Wall or St Mary de Castro but whose personal heritage involves going with their dad to see the football.

 

[RHYDAL]

David, sometimes a father has to/ is able to build different memories for his children. Our owner enabled that for me and I thank him for it. The trust would have us playing in blue against Cov now. No ta.

 

[camberwell fox]

David, sometimes a father has to/ is able to build different memories for his children. Our owner enabled that for me and I thank him for it. The trust would have us playing in blue against Cov now. No ta.

Don't you feel aggrieved at all Rydal that your club was forced to change its colours and therefore identity in the name of nothing more than commercialism.

I for one applaud this move.

 

[Hazzman]

Good idea actually

Yep, even more so now the stadium is owned by King Power. No asset stripping if they try it.

 

[spionfox]

FT do something right - shock horror :icon_eek:

 

[Mawsley]

FT do something right - shock horror :icon_eek:

Monkeys, typewriters, infinity

 

[RHYDAL]

Don't you feel aggrieved at all Rydal that your club was forced to change its colours and therefore identity in the name of nothing more than commercialism.


I for one applaud this move.

Hardly at all. I've supported Cardiff in blue, red, white, yellow and, in the FA Cup final, black. Some team's supporters would have you believe that having black players in their team is wrong. It's a colour ffs, nothing more. And what relevance has a Bluebird to Cardiff anyhow? Never really understood it.


We originally played in brown and yellow quartered shirts.The people who are grizzling about the red shirts now are the same people who wore brown and yellow scarfs when we were taken over by the Malaysians, in the same way the Mancs supporters wore green and yellow when the yanks came in.

The shirt changes every year, the badge has changed several times in the last decade. Why? Commercial exploitation of the weak minded. Football is a branch of the entertainment business. I pay £329 a season to watch premier league football. How is it that low? Because the owner put in £100m.

The fact they play in red has cost me nothing. I don't buy shirts or scarves or baby rompers from the club shop. It's still the same bunch of overpaid strangers running around in them, supplemented with some more even higher paid strangers and a couple of token local boys.

Good luck with the ACV though. Must say it sounds like a paper exercise to me.
And if it involves the council, any half decent owner will be able to put the right envelope in the right palm to get around it.

 

[Real Sharapova]

Hardly at all. I've supported Cardiff in blue, red, white, yellow and, in the FA Cup final, black. Some team's supporters would have you believe that having black players in their team is wrong. It's a colour ffs, nothing more. And what relevance has a Bluebird to Cardiff anyhow? Never really understood it.


We originally played in brown and yellow quartered shirts.The people who are grizzling about the red shirts now are the same people who wore brown and yellow scarfs when we were taken over by the Malaysians, in the same way the Mancs supporters wore green and yellow when the yanks came in.

The shirt changes every year, the badge has changed several times in the last decade. Why? Commercial exploitation of the weak minded. Football is a branch of the entertainment business. I pay £329 a season to watch premier league football. How is it that low? Because the owner put in £100m.

The fact they play in red has cost me nothing. I don't buy shirts or scarves or baby rompers from the club shop. It's still the same bunch of overpaid strangers running around in them, supplemented with some more even higher paid strangers and a couple of token local boys.

Good luck with the ACV though. Must say it sounds like a paper exercise to me.
And if it involves the council, any half decent owner will be able to put the right envelope in the right palm to get around it.

Lovely stuff. Especially the connection with Bluebirds, it's the same with the song " White Cliffs of Dover ". Bluebirds are native to America FFS.

 

[Lako42]

Hardly at all. I've supported Cardiff in blue, red, white, yellow and, in the FA Cup final, black. Some team's supporters would have you believe that having black players in their team is wrong. It's a colour ffs, nothing more. And what relevance has a Bluebird to Cardiff anyhow? Never really understood it.


We originally played in brown and yellow quartered shirts.The people who are grizzling about the red shirts now are the same people who wore brown and yellow scarfs when we were taken over by the Malaysians, in the same way the Mancs supporters wore green and yellow when the yanks came in.

The shirt changes every year, the badge has changed several times in the last decade. Why? Commercial exploitation of the weak minded. Football is a branch of the entertainment business. I pay £329 a season to watch premier league football. How is it that low? Because the owner put in £100m.

The fact they play in red has cost me nothing. I don't buy shirts or scarves or baby rompers from the club shop. It's still the same bunch of overpaid strangers running around in them, supplemented with some more even higher paid strangers and a couple of token local boys.

Good luck with the ACV though. Must say it sounds like a paper exercise to me.
And if it involves the council, any half decent owner will be able to put the right envelope in the right palm to get around it.

Exactly, a Welsh team that plays in the English leagues can hardly complain about heritage and shirt changes.

 

[RHYDAL]

Exactly, a Welsh team that plays in the English leagues can hardly complain about heritage and shirt changes.

This never gets tired or old does it.

 

[Lako42]

This never gets tired or old does it.

I think it's a valid point