Isn't the hotel , if it is to be built , on land that is owned by BHCC and the club would have to lease the land from the council ? The car park on BF only becomes more valuable to the owners if additional spaces are needed for hotel patrons attending conferences etc. apart from the 650 spaces...
From a landowner's/farmer's point of view you have to consider the EU subsidy for leaving a field fallow could be a big fat zero from 2018 onwards if a referendum on leaving delivers a YES result.
In the 2011 NSC thread on Bennetts Field being used for temporary parking there are some interesting posts.
skipper734 "Isn't Bennett's Field/Church Field the reason there is no slip road on to the southbound A27?"
Lord Bracknell "You may well be right. One of the objectors claims that there is...