----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Future Waterways Organisation and Funding
> On 24/10/06, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >AIUI, FBS was on a standard commercial lease on its old site. Under
>> such, Tony would have known from the beginning exactly when the lease
>> was going to end, and that BW had the right not to renew if it needed
>> the site for something else. Also, there are usually statutory notice
>> periods required if the landlord wishes not to renew. Moreover, I
>> believe (but am not certain) that BW was actually talking with Tony
>> well in advance of the statutory notice date. Finally, BW made
>> arrangements with Tony for him to relocate nearby.
>>
>> All seems reasonable to me.
>
> It was not at all reasonable. In fact, the way Tony was treated was
> entirely
> unreasonable. He had been on a recurring lease since, I think, 1962 and
> had
> no reason for thinking that it wouldn't be renewed annually the way it
> always had been. Talk to him ahead of the date? They hardly wanted to talk
> to him at all and would have done the whole thing by letter if he hadn't
> demanded otherwise. . And as for 'making arrangements' with him to
> relocate
> nearby, I am left speechless. They were constrained into making an
> accommodation with him when they would rather not have done simply because
> Tony owned freehold land critical to the site access. He was treated
> shabbily. He had built up the boatyard and the pub at the bottom of the
> locks from nothing, only to be kicked out in favour of the corporate
> partnership with Scottish and Newcastle.>
> Incidentally for anyone going down Foxton seeking an alternative to
> plastic
> corporatism, I'd recommend the new pub. As idiosyncratic as you'd expect
> from Tony, and not all will like it. But a genuine public housereflecting
> the character of the landlord.
>
> Steve
I recall that when the redevelopment plans were first announced, there was
adverse reaction on this list (or its predecessor, whatever). We were
encouraged to object to the plans. However, when the facts became known, the
adverse reaction was dissipated and the redevelopment was seen as quite a
good thing. I think the Tony Matts Fan Club has a smallish membership.
Dorothy
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