Not surpised. More will follow I am sure.

I thought they scrapped everything they wanted when they went into administration and bought out the ones they wanted etc?

They'll close more than that by the time this mess of an economy is straight. It's gonna get worse.

Just seen on Surey site tht the Redhill one has been reopened under private ownership.
Hope they can make a go of it.

Maybe but I'd expect that rented units would be on a long term lease - say 99 years or whatever - so they then sell the leasehold rather than freehold of the building.

That's essentially what makes them leaseholds rather than freeholds, isn't it?

I don't think though that leases on commercial property are that long, very much shorter so it's easier to renegotiate rent and conditions 'n' stuff, about 10 - 15 years.

I may be wrong though, my knowledge is based on just two personal instances.

Went to Rileys Altrincham last night to play a game in Altrincham Singles League..decided to play on table 6 whilst on way to the table 1 of the comp organisers advised me that someof the other tables had be been re-covered and would be a better option so chose to play on table 11..I was then advised when I asked to change tables that the light had been on for 1 minute so it would cost me 68p..by my reckoning that is £40.80 an hour and I was already on team rate with 50% discount so full rate would have been £81.60..FFS

Must be making some massive profits on those table rates. lol

You can renew a leasehold too, usually doesn't cost much.

We added 100 years to my wifes grandads flat so that we could sell it (well, the estate could sell it). It only had 52 years left and apparently you can't normally get a mortgage on that so we had to do it to help it sell. Cost £13k.

Memsec (Rileys CMS) allows you to swap your table without having to pay for your original one so the staff member should simply have swapped your 'account' from Table 6 to Table 11 and then you would pay your bill at the end of your game as usual.