Watford dismayed as Cup clash set for Milton Keynes

[Col_M]

This is dragging the temporary named trophy to the highest bidder’s name through the mud. Shame.

 

[Pimp_Spur]

Would love it at Mk dons......10 minute journey from my house

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

Semi-OT: has anyone here noticed that there are 154 affordable housing flats physically wrapped around the outside of the stadium at Vicarage Rd? It's the strangest development, a truly odd idea. The housing association that owns them is one of my main clients and I'm doing a load of work on this development at the moment.

It would be disappointing if they are now affordable homes as they we’re originally Keyworker accommodation for the nurses working in the hospital next door. Watford sold off to a Housing Association to enable the contractor to build The concrete frame for their new lounge and player changing rooms. The concrete frame was left empty for a number of years due to Watford having no money. There used to be allotments adjacent to the development who were very protective and against any development that might interfere with the growth of their prize marrows. I presume they have had to move with the major redevelopment going currently.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

It would be disappointing if they are now affordable homes as they we’re originally Keyworker accommodation for the nurses working in the hospital next door. Watford sold off to a Housing Association to enable the contractor to build The concrete frame for their new lounge and player changing rooms. The concrete frame was left empty for a number of years due to Watford having no money. There used to be allotments adjacent to the development who were very protective and against any development that might interfere with the growth of their prize marrows. I presume they have had to move with the major redevelopment going currently.

Key worker housing is all included in the portmanteau term "affordable housing". Some of the flats, not all, were let as housing for nursing/medical staff and they still are. The rest were let as intermediate-rented flats and they still are. Some were going to be shared ownership, but were changed to intermediate-rented after the financial crash, because no one was buying shared ownership then. That may be reviewed, depending on demand.

I think the allotments were still there after the "wrap" development was finished. The legal documents suggest they were going to be retained. I don't know if they've subsequently had to move for other reasons.

Those legal arrangements are extremely complicated, due to the way some facilities for the housing and some communal areas of the stadium are physically tangled up in each other, also because some of the projecting/cantilevered parts of the building were found to overhang someone else's land.

I'm gradually working my way through this stuff, trying to clarify it for lenders and other interested parties and, while I'm at it, trying to simplify some of the over-complication that isn't required, now that the building has been completed and managed for several years.

 

[UbeAstard]

Integrity lol wtf they on about? Can’t be arsed to read it but we get zero advantage playing at Milton Keynes as far as I can see.

Also Watford don't get the advantage they would like.