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FOUL (Fighting for Oxford United's Life) has issued the following press release:
Supporters praise Judicial Review decision
Oxford United supporters group FOUL (Fighting for Oxford United's Life) has praised the decision by Cheshire developer
Nick Pentith to withdraw from the judicial review into Oxford City Council's decision to grant planning permission
for a multiplex cinema at Minchery Farm. The cinema is vital to United's relocation plans and the judicial review
could potentially have revoked the permission for the development to proceed. An eleventh hour meeting between
the City Council and Pentith led to the decision to cancel the hearing, due to start at 10.30 on Monday.
A spokesperson for FOUL commented: "This is a major hurdle towards completion of the stadium out of the way.
It really is a victory for common sense and we are pleased that Pentith has finally realised that to pursue this
course of action is in nobody's interests. It is a shame that it took him so long, but now at last we can look
forward to watching football in Minchery Farm at the start of next season, and the people of Oxford can look forward
to having decent leisure facilities at long last."
The spokesperson continued: "Although this is excellent news we must not get carried away. There are still
three other unresolved issues: the Morrells injunction, for which we are awaiting the appeal judges' decision;
Les Wells' caution, which we hope will be resolved soon; and the Thames Water settlement, which may prove to be
more easily resolved now that the judicial review is sorted. However the history of this project means that it
is not impossible for another unforeseen problem to arise at any moment, so we must not get complacent. But for
now we will celebrate a major step forward, although not in a Morrells pub, of course!"
ENDS
