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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand

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Their whole line of arguing sound a bit like this, except it's only a relocation.
 
Christopher Katkowski QC begins his evidence for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club by asking Justice Dove if he has had any more unsolicited texts. Justice Dove responds "How would I know I've been stuck in this room for the last two and a half hours. I'll let you know if I do." More amusement in court

CK QC: The suggestion that SoS granting of CPO was made unlawfully simply not the case. He also gave his reasons contrary to the suggestion of the appellant

CK QC: It is not a misdirection to presume validity of public authority decision makers unless and until a court says otherwise

Mr Katkowski QC is rattling through his submissions at a considerably more brisk pace than the other QC's on the bench.

CK QC reiterating that the assumption of validity of public authority decision making applies across the board and a council planning committee is not an exception to this

Justice Dove uses the word journey in reference to the case prompting CK QC to tell him he must stop watching X Factor. The judge says 'I have many guilty pleasures but X Factor is not one of them'

Justice Dove adjourns for lunch
 
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Is the Secretary of State not on the same side as Haringey?

Not so much on the same side, but ratified Haringey's decision. However as he is a seperate party to Haringey, he has his own representation in proceedings.

The significance of this is that Archway are attempting to imply that had the Secretary of State known that the scheme might be altered that this would have affected his decision to ratify the CPO. The SoS representation to the court is that it would not have made a difference to his decision as he was asked to consider the CPO in the knowledge that the proposed scheme wasn't 'final' or 'set in stone'.
 
Justice Dove has returned and Christopher Katkowski QC has resumed his evidence on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur

CK QC: The only challenge can be that the local authority did not have the power to grant the CPO but of course it did

CK QC: There is over 50 pages of council explanation, tied into the statutory power to grant the CPO, detailing why they think the plans will improve the borough

CK QC: There's a conundrum in all of this that how can it possibly be that the council did not have the power to grant this order when they did so under that impression
 
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Justice Dove is either a stand-up comedian at night................................

or more likely has developed that tell tale trait when you are faced with something so frivolous, without foundation and downright laughable. You cannot take any of it seriously.
 
Amazing to think that in 48 hours time the whole stadium approval process will hopefully be over! Presumably Levy has the financing arranged so that we can then start to see our shiny new stadium gradually go up!!

Would be a massive boost for the club given we would finally be able to plan for having a much increased capacity and therefore turnover in future
 
CK QC: In the process of Archway's viability challenge it become clear that Tottenham Hotspur had £350m on tap to build the stadium in a document from their bankers HSBC

The £350m referred to is if required in the event of funding shortfall on the stadium as a bridging loan
 
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HSBC?

At the rate of news this week they could be closed down before this is decided, especially if in a special account in Switzerland.
 
CK QC: We are a long way off finding something that could have lead the SoS to choose not to award the CPO

CK QC discussing the two seperate plans for the listed buildings encompassed within the plans and how they approached Haringey Council on the subject of demolition

CK QC: In all circumstances Archway's land is needed specifically for the stadium not for any other buildings

CK QC: There is nothing in the decision letter from the SoS that the decision is in any way dependent on the size of the stadium or number of flats being built
 
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