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McLaren wins £8m dispute with ex-Southend FC chairman

Southend United McLaren Construction has won a case over a £7.9m debt owed to it by a former chairman of Southend United Football Club and his development company. The contractor served statutory demands on Ron Martin and his company Martin Dawn plc to pay the money, which related to a loan agreement made in October

McLaren wins £8m dispute with ex-Southend FC chairman

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McLaren Building has received a case over a £7.9m debt owed to it by a former chairman of Southend United Soccer Membership and his improvement firm.

The contractor served statutory calls for on Ron Martin and his firm Martin Daybreak plc to pay the cash, which associated to a mortgage settlement made in October 2020, following various agreements between Martin’s firms and McLaren courting again to 2011.

However Insolvency and Firms Court docket decide Paul Greenwood concluded that Martin failed in his bid to put aside the statutory calls for, and ordered the winding up of Martin Daybreak plc.

In October 2020, Martin was contemplating constructing a housing improvement on a greenbelt web site in Fort Level, Essex, and entered right into a mortgage settlement with McLaren.

This lined three loans, together with £7m for present money owed owed to McLaren by the Martin Daybreak firm working in Cheltenham and to cowl a £600,000 cost for McLaren’s improvement arm, Dwelling, to advertise the Fort Level web site.

Martin offered a private assure to again up the loans.

Any proceeds of gross sales regarding the Fort Level improvement had been as a consequence of go in the direction of repaying the debt, whereas the steadiness was due in October 2023.

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Martin Daybreak gave Dwelling the precise both to train a proper of pre-emption, or to obtain an outlined share of the sale proceeds generated by a sale of the Essex land.

Nonetheless, after Fort Level Council rejected a draft native plan that may have eliminated the location’s greenbelt designation, Dwelling felt it was unlikely to obtain planning permission and didn’t try to acquire it.

After McLaren issued the statutory calls for for the cash from Martin and his firm, the businessman issued a counter-claim accusing McLaren Building and Dwelling of unlawfully “conspiring with an intention to trigger monetary loss” to his companies.

He mentioned that after the council rejected the native plan proposals, the McLaren firms turned intent on getting out of their settlement to advertise the location and demanded reimbursement of the loans earlier than they had been due.

Martin argued that if Dwelling had tried to acquire planning permission, and succeeded, the worth of the land would have gone up and his firm may have repaid the loans.

However the decide, who thought of each declare and counterclaim in a rolled-up listening to, mentioned there was no proof to show the conspiracy.

He mentioned that even when there had been, Martin could be required to point out the motion prompted a monetary loss, which he didn’t.

Martin additionally argued that the mortgage settlement implied – i.e. was so apparent it didn’t should be put into phrases – that if Dwelling failed to hold out its settlement to advertise the land, the loans wouldn’t be repaid.

Greenwood described the argument as “fully hopeless” and based mostly on an incorrect premise.

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