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For balance: you are omitting Hilton’s claim on the ransom strip, the land valuation difference, the planning permission expiration and alleged farmers access issues.
I didn’t purposely omit them.
Could you expand on the three points please?
The three points that Hilton says exist but only he knows about, the planning permission was granted years ago but has now expired because the work wasn’t started, the ransom strip that nobody has ever proved the existence of, the farmers access that no farmer has ever claimed, it didn’t stop the planning permission for housing years ago so why should it now?
As for the land valuation, Hilton agreed on the price.
Most people know about these issues, and know of the validity of them. You can easily do this research for yourself but just to spell it out for you:
-Swann applied for a continuance of the planning based on him moving some soil around and this got rejected by N lincs council. You can check this on the N lincs council planning portal as it is in the public domain.
-I paid for the land registry plans for Glanford Park and the training ground and you can clearly see there is a strip in the middle which has now become unregistered after the land has been split into parcels. Happy to send you the title plan numbers if you wish to purchase and check this out for yourself.
-The summary on the title plan for Glandford Park also shows that a farmer has got access. Just because you are saying that they do not use this, does not mean that they cannot legally use it in future.
-The valuation Hilton originally agreed upon was based upon the land value with planning permission which it does not have anymore significantly reducing the valuation of the land. The article states that Hilton is still going to pay 3 million though.