Things could have been different had Portpin made an attempt to buy the adjoining land. That is where he messed up really. Even if he had attempted to buy it and failed he could have said he wanted to make an attempt to develop the club himself. In that scenario he could have kept his charge and got rent from the PDT. Not sure how he can play that card now when he made no attempt to buy the land and look to develop it (and possibly get the profit that may bring the PDT)