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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Nick Jackson

Salford council will assess legality of buying Salford Reds' AJ Bell stadium

Salford Robin Garrido AJ Bell Paul Dennett PEEL CoSCoS

Salford city council's plans to buy the AJ Bell stadium could be 'illegal', opposition councillors have alleged.

Coun Robin Garrido is due to meet Salford’s chief finance officer Joanne Hardman and chief legal and monitoring officer Iolanda Puzio over the plan by city mayor Paul Dennett to take full ownership of the AJ Bell Stadium.

The Tory leader wants the two bosses to look into his claim that the city council would breach Section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 if it was purchase Peel’s 50 per cent holding in the stadium. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “It appears to us [the Conservatives] that the city mayor and/or the council is about to take steps or consider taking steps which would constitute maladministration.”

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