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Date: 11th November 2013 Dear Freedom of Information Act 2000 Thank you for requesting information about the Ricoh Arena, which the Council received on 6th November 2013. Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“The Act”). You have requested the following...

"It is understood that Richardson bought an option to buy the Foleshill gas works site but when that option ran out and he couldn’t raise the money to pay British Gas, the council stepped in and bought the land for £20m - including £12m to decontaminate it – and then sold it to Tesco, using...

possibly a premium for the sellers. Same point could be made as to how CCC paid 24m for about 75 acres and turned round about half that to Tesco for 59m within a short time period. interesting note in liquidator's report of Arena 2001 shows 2 main unsecured creditors were British Gas around...

OSB - have you been through Arena 2001 accounts? Possibility that land went from Britsh Gas & others to Arena 2001(purchase) to HBG (debt default & then repurchase option default) to CCC over a period of years?

Dave - this is a project cost report which doesn't necessarily separate the different ways the council (CNR, ACL, etc) put in money and to which aspect of the overall project. Also I think you will find the 1.758m from ccfc to acl was their 50% of the original value of the called up up share...

and had access to development funds and got the necessary loans to complete - something the club wasn't able to do.

problem with this is we need to see the october 2003 report referred to. i can't find it.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/arena-2001-faqs-3172736

"hare-brained" hmm - retractable pitches, underground car parking were a few other suggestions the former chairman came up with.

OSB - joy still seems to be insisting that SISU have invested over 60 million. i've been following the accounts for years and still don't get close to this figure they keep insisting on. interviews in the press from various sisu figures a couple of years ago had the figure of around 40 million...

scg notes out today seem again to show it isn't the owners' point of view.

the option to buy back the land lapsed under Richardson's tenure. Doesn't matter who found Tesco's the land didn't belong to the club at the time of sale. Richardson set up the original situation which separated the football club from the stadium company in the first place. "didn't want the club...

surely it doesn't matter what the value of the company shares is? isn't the company value mainly based on assets & cashflow?

aren't you blurring the history a bit? 1. wasn't it the football league who subsequentlu made SISU pay what the amounts owed? 2. there couldn't have been discussions at the time due to the outstanding monies? 3. there were major questions at the time (which I haven't seen answered yet) around...

same as me!!

I really don't get the fuss about this. It seems to make sense that that by default the rail company would work with the Arena company first. At least something is being done to try and get things moving re:the station. if they can make this work then surely it will encourage all parties to...

in the 70s we had our bikes, football & maybe bin cricket in the summer. Times change. Back then your mum used to kick you out the house in the morning and you would'nt come back til the evening. try kicking a football in the street these days and you'll probably end up with the old bill...

not concerned. I'm fully confident in Mowbray & Venus.

we had been linked recently with a player playing for Swindon. Also don't loan contracts have to be cancelled before a player can be sold?

"If they look at the demographics of the supporter base" serious question what are the demographics of the supporter base? anything official or just guesswork?