Peel Commissioners pulling up the anchor at the Sailing Club?

[Sign in]

I see there's an online petition to save Peel Sailing club.

Link to Three FM story here

 

[piebaps]

On 5/9/2024 at 1:12 PM, The Phantom said:

Interesting.  Is it common on the Isle for the local commissioners to retain the Freehold then?

I don't know if its common but I'm on the committee of a club which has constructed a building on LA land. We lease the plot from them and we're acutely aware that if the lease doesn't get renewed, we'd have to move our building (or raze it to the ground in a scorched earth policy).

[Roger Mexico]

24 minutes ago, Sign in said:

I see there's an online petition to save Peel Sailing club.

Link to Three FM story here

There's some splendidly bitchy remarks in the commentary:

We are tired of the local authority's high-handed and dismissive attitude - particularly by chair Christine Moughtin who should not only declare her interests and excuse herself from debates when licensed premises are discussed but should hang her head in shame at her opposition and eagerness to destroy so much which benefits the town.

We have already had to suffer years of poor decision-making by Peel Town Commissioners. This year Oie Voaldyn was cancelled after Mrs Moughtin opposed it because a sponsor might compete with "nearby businesses" such as the one she works at. We have seen a failed planning application for an overblown, poorly thought-out clubhouse at the tennis courts - without any attempt to ask if ratepayers in Peel wanted to pay for it.

We call for the board to immediately reverse its decision and assure the future of a facility which provides invaluable services to Peel.

I do have to point out that Moughtin was the least popular of the Commissioners who were elected anyway.  You can see all this becoming an election issue in the next LA elections in 2025 - which is of course before the lease expires.

[WTF]

1 hour ago, piebaps said:

I don't know if its common but I'm on the committee of a club which has constructed a building on LA land. We lease the plot from them and we're acutely aware that if the lease doesn't get renewed, we'd have to move our building (or raze it to the ground in a scorched earth policy).

i'd vote for option 2 , thieving twats.

 

taxi for moughtin 

Edited May 17 by WTF

[woolley]

I'd love to know what precipitated this nonsense.

[John Wright]

36 minutes ago, woolley said:

I'd love to know what precipitated this nonsense.

The sailing club had a 21 year lease. As it’s a local authority landlord the provisions of the Tenancy of Business Premises Act 1971 allowing a tenant to apply to court for an extension don’t apply. Even if they did the fact the landlord wants to redevelop would defeat such a claim.

Standard advice an advocate would give to a landlord in this situation would be to advise the tenant at the earliest opportunity that they wouldn’t be renewing, and that they required possession so as to do work, before putting it out to tender.

That gives the tenant chance to make arrangements to move out or find alternative accommodation.

May seem harsh. But PTC don’t have much option. Since the last time the lease was negotiated the rules for lettings at best price by Government, quangos, local authorities have changed beyond all recognition. 

Whether that’s good or bad is another matter.

[woolley]

3 hours ago, John Wright said:

The sailing club had a 21 year lease. As it’s a local authority landlord the provisions of the Tenancy of Business Premises Act 1971 allowing a tenant to apply to court for an extension don’t apply. Even if they did the fact the landlord wants to redevelop would defeat such a claim.

Standard advice an advocate would give to a landlord in this situation would be to advise the tenant at the earliest opportunity that they wouldn’t be renewing, and that they required possession so as to do work, before putting it out to tender.

That gives the tenant chance to make arrangements to move out or find alternative accommodation.

May seem harsh. But PTC don’t have much option. Since the last time the lease was negotiated the rules for lettings at best price by Government, quangos, local authorities have changed beyond all recognition. 

Whether that’s good or bad is another matter.

So the devil making work for idle hands in government is behind it again.