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In August 2008 Glasgow City Council (GCC) approved two transactions in the Springfield Rd area opposite Celtic Park: 1. An acquisition for a Springfield Rd site of 3 Hectares for £20 million. (on the lower LHS above) 2. a proposed disposal of a second commercial London Rd/Springfield Rd site that became in 2012 a Retail/Hotel development … Continue reading
As they say in Scotland when the game is up. “The game’s a bogey”. And it is for the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council and any associated parties pertaining to the Westthorn land transaction between the council and Celtic PLC. Number of Units sets Westthorn Price Firstly from the Scottish Government EU letter July … Continue reading
The Scottish Government EU State Aid submission dated 4 July 2014 submitted on behalf of Glasgow City Council and Celtic says this about Westthorn: Here’s what the previously hidden/unreleased HSE letter of June 2005 says: HSE states that development can happen in between the Middle Zone (MZ) and Outer Zone (OZ) in fact all the block from the MZ … Continue reading
Wikileaks 2004 US Cable on Secretary Snow meeting Irish Politicians & Businessmen The cable is titled: DISCUSSIONS WITH THE ARCHITECTS OF THE CELTIC TIGER ECONOMY. On 15 November 2004, U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow met: Dermot Desmond Charlie McCreevy [at the time EU Commissioner-designate and former Irish Finance Minister] Ray McSharry [at the time former … Continue reading
The excerpt from The Lennoxtown Initiative Annual Report for year ending 31st March 2007 establishes without any doubt that Celtic PLC came to an agreement with The Lennoxtown Initiative in ‘early 2006’ that the board of a charity would funnel funds from the sale of the Lennox Castle Hospital upper site to Celtic back to … Continue reading
Above are: 1. A reply to a FOI which asked NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC) what were the payment instructions, in November 2006, on the £463,000 payment to The Lennoxtown Initiative charity which was most of the money Celtic paid NHSGGC for the upper site at Lennoxtown in June 2006. 2. A copy of the NHSGGC Ledger … Continue reading
I kept this back to allow Audit Scotland un-impeded time to do their investigation without being hassled by phone threats. This was issued well before the EU ‘cleared’ the State Aid against Celtic PLC for the Glasgow Celtic Council land transactions but has been sat on patiently. The reply above from Audit Scotland acknowledges that they are investigating the … Continue reading
The above is an excerpt from a FoI review by Scottish Enterprise (SE) relating to their subsidiary, Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire’s (SED) involvement with the Lennoxtown Initiative. Note: The SED made a payment of £253,000 [equivalent to half the valuation of Lennoxtown] under the Celtic SLA in The Lennoxtown Initiative charity’s annual report for the year ending 31st March … Continue reading
In 2004, Audit Scotland issued a report called ‘Following The Public Pound‘ and issued ‘a Follow-up report‘ in 2005. Audit Scotland had issues about Scottish public bodies misusing ALEOs, Arms Length External Organisations that is companies separate from the public body itself, for the delivery of services and issued guidance. Although the focus was on councils … Continue reading
The excerpt above comes from a NHS GGC [NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde] document entitled Updated Report for CE and Dir Fin – former Lennox Castle Hospital. Although undated, this document under the NHS GGC list of documents relating to the Sale of Land at former Lennox Castle it can be placed in a timeline. … Continue reading
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