Quote ="Chris28"Would be interesting to know why the Uni pulled out. And why it's taken 2 months for this to be announced.'"
Uni has a new Vice Chancellor (boss man) coming in, so higher management won't want to sign over a million pounds (the value of the land) to the project, especially in the current economic climate, until he takes the helm and gives it the go-ahead.
The thing is, uni has excellent sporting facilities anyway, so unless it was getting something better out of it it's a lot of money to donate for not much return.