" GREAT NEWS FOR LONDON FOOTBALL CLUB "
Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:41 pm
The Guardian
Millwall CPO scrapped as Lewisham mayor calls time on development plan
- Sir Steve Bullock says scheme around the Den ‘should not proceed’
- Lewisham mayor backs down after opposition to compulsory purchase order
Wednesday 25th January 2017
By Barney Ronay
The plan to seize Millwall’s land around the Den by compulsory purchase has been abandoned following fierce public pressure. In a statement on Wednesday Lewisham’s mayor, Sir Steve Bullock, said that the CPO on Millwall’s land “should not proceed”, citing concerns raised about the club’s community trust and academy.
Bullock wrote: “I have always been clear that Millwall must be at the heart of the development and it is my view that these concerns need to be thoroughly addressed, the CPO should not proceed and that all parties concerned should enter discussions to identify an agreed way to achieve the regeneration of this area while resolving these concerns.”
Addressing his own absence from proceedings because of a declared interest as a director of the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation, Bullock added: “I have not made any public comment in regard to the proposed CPO because of my involvement with the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation.
“I have served as a trustee of the Surrey Canal Sport Foundation for several years because I want to see excellent sports and youth facilities provided in the New Bermondsey area as well as new housing.”
The foundation, which is crucial to the development, was reported by the Guardian as being at the heart of inaccurate funding claims.
Bullock, who has also told the Guardian that he will not be resigning as mayor, is understood to be planning to review his position with the foundation once he has had a chance to consult the information material to the funding claims.
For now Bullock appears to be holding an olive branch to Millwall, who have until now been excluded from the development, and suggesting the only sensible course, a genuine partnership in the scheme.
Millwall CPO scrapped as Lewisham mayor calls time on development plan
- Sir Steve Bullock says scheme around the Den ‘should not proceed’
- Lewisham mayor backs down after opposition to compulsory purchase order
Wednesday 25th January 2017
By Barney Ronay
The plan to seize Millwall’s land around the Den by compulsory purchase has been abandoned following fierce public pressure. In a statement on Wednesday Lewisham’s mayor, Sir Steve Bullock, said that the CPO on Millwall’s land “should not proceed”, citing concerns raised about the club’s community trust and academy.
Bullock wrote: “I have always been clear that Millwall must be at the heart of the development and it is my view that these concerns need to be thoroughly addressed, the CPO should not proceed and that all parties concerned should enter discussions to identify an agreed way to achieve the regeneration of this area while resolving these concerns.”
Addressing his own absence from proceedings because of a declared interest as a director of the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation, Bullock added: “I have not made any public comment in regard to the proposed CPO because of my involvement with the Surrey Canal Sports Foundation.
“I have served as a trustee of the Surrey Canal Sport Foundation for several years because I want to see excellent sports and youth facilities provided in the New Bermondsey area as well as new housing.”
The foundation, which is crucial to the development, was reported by the Guardian as being at the heart of inaccurate funding claims.
Bullock, who has also told the Guardian that he will not be resigning as mayor, is understood to be planning to review his position with the foundation once he has had a chance to consult the information material to the funding claims.
For now Bullock appears to be holding an olive branch to Millwall, who have until now been excluded from the development, and suggesting the only sensible course, a genuine partnership in the scheme.
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Re: " GREAT NEWS FOR LONDON FOOTBALL CLUB "
Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:49 pm
Good news for Millwall bad news for the rest of the world.
Re: " GREAT NEWS FOR LONDON FOOTBALL CLUB "
Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:57 pm
Great news for Millwall and fellow football fans 
Re: " GREAT NEWS FOR LONDON FOOTBALL CLUB "
Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:04 pm
Other day it was reported that the present planning was to be scrapped but for it to be applied for after review? So hopefully it as been totally abandoned! 