At least we have that to be thankful for, not fucking Ranson.
The professional violinist bit might be useful to be fair, maybe he can play the smallest violin in the World for us at a concert in the Ricoh.
Commercial confidentiality, nda, blah de blah, etc, etc.
All good questions, which really require good answers, not hiding behind the above,
Open and transparent local government, "localism" in action at it's very best.
If I'd been them I'd have kept the 50% share as soon as the lease was extended to 250 years by CCC for Wasps, instant jump in value of their share without having to do anything.
Think they've missed a trick in not trawling through the extensive fan database and not finding a Mr Norrell to join Jonathan Strange at these meetings to be honest.
Don't think that they had much choice in the matter.
They should certainly have got an awful lot more for a 50% share of a 250 year lease on the Ricoh and surrounding land than they did get.
Of course, neither they, nor the Council had to sell an allegedly profitable enterprise at all, and ACL...
You seem to have convinced yourself that a 250 year lease is worthless.
Which is why you won't have it that the offer SISU made for the Higgs share, was better than the one made for the 100% share of ACL.
OSB put it well on another thread.