Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
It was fairly common knowledge within the town that there were restrictions on what you could do with the land surrounding Oakwell and what you couldn't .

As you say it wouldn't have taken much to find out from their side of things .

Everyone who buys a house or a piece of land has solicitors who do searches as part of the procedure , its standard practice .

Some saying on bbs that the Senior family who owned the brewery and put in the lands restriction has now passed and is irrelevant today .

I wouldn't be so sure myself , some of these old things still stack up today legally .

It's worth reminding ourselves that this club have experienced some tough financial times , we've nearly gone out of business four times in my time supporting the club and yet nobody flogged the land off which would have eased the financial strain , it would have been the easiest thing to do .

Nobody did and I reckon that's because the restrictions placed on the land makes it unlikely anyone would want it and it's probably not worth a great deal either because of the restrictions .

I could be wrong but it does make you wonder .
I worked at the Land Registry for 30+ years and only a very amateur solicitor wouldn't be aware of these restrictions.
In fact I would say no qualified solicitor would miss their significance.