So, are you saying that the council gave the nod to Yourcourt that they would have no objection to developing 250 acres of Green Belt land ??

this will also bring a much needed boost for our ailing job market

Green belt for how long?
It has always been on the whole brown field. The land has to be reclassified every 10 years, why would a council let a suitably placed large site of mainly scrub sit undeveloped forever. This area is hardly The North York Moors nor even Notton, this is Newmarket colliery were talking about!
I believe the council were always waiting for the right time to develop this site, hence the classification of some of it "green belt", this IMO (and the VAST majority of residents of Wakefield) is that chance.
The one thing everyone who lives round here can agree on is that we have some stunning areas of natural beauty, can anyone say this is one of those? The creation of this development will go a hell of a long way to the creation of much better quality "green field" and habitat.

And as far as the residents of Methley are concerned, they have plenty of green field land on their side of the motorway, so the "green lung" is far from gone.

If they were brave enough for a public debate with the developers and their associates i dare say they wouldn't have a leg to stand on after they had they points fully explained, as they clearly missed them the first time.

I wish Wakey all the best getting a stadium, but I have to say that the whole of the land is shown on the UDP plan as Green Belt and was classified as that in 2003 and may be re-classified in 2013 . I can understand why there is so much opposition. The land does not have to be rolling meadows and woodland to be Green Belt.

Do you know how much opposition is in place ? seems very little from what i can gather.

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You really do seem to have a serious problem accepting that other people are entitled to an opinion. Deal with it.

There's still going to be urbanisation of an area on a pretty large scale. Is the industrial drainage system sustainable i.e. does it delay the release of water back to the environment at a rate similar to that of vegetation? It's well known that surface water drainage increases the level of peak discharge in the river, and reduces the delay in it being reached during/after rainfall and as a result, can lead to flooding. In the meantime, how long will it take for the increase in woodland to become established?

Naturally anybody down river of this development may have concerns, surely you can see that. There doesn't however, seem to be much effort being made in raising awareness of the precautions taken to avoid these issues given the links posted in this thread.

Yes, SUDS are to be incorporated into the design.

Any other concerns for any tigers fans living in that area???

At the end of the day 15,000+ residents wouldn't have signed up to support the scheme if nobody wanted it.
This is the future of our sporting region, the desire is there and more importantly it has a funding package IN PLACE. not even Saints can say that and they are much further down the road than either of us or Salford.

The population need jobs.
The region needs sporting facilities.
The council need the additional income (tourism, corporate and rate taxes ect).

And it won't cost the council a penny. That or a scub land field??
Put yourself in the councils position, there is only 1 possible outcome of this application. Even if it gets bounced to the cabinet all parties are in favor of economic regeneration, which is exactly what this is. This project WILL go through.

I fail to see why you all are coming on here and assuming its cas fans that are complaining, i havent seen one objection posted to that effect, The only posts are observations thats all, I suggest you put your efforts into going down to the people who live down there and talking them into what you believe should happen. I dont care where your stadium goes, I dont give a flying fec about what will happen to the roads around that area or in methley. So stop getting touchy and stop convincing yourselves it is cas fans.

Did they sign up in support of a STADIUM or full BUSINESS PARK, massive difference.

Both. again read the documentation; the original petition states that "the facilities can not happen in isolation from the rest of the project". People knew it was going to be cross financed by the creation of a larger development all along.

Anyway enough on here, if you want to chat more about it i suggest we do it on our board. This is becoming drawn out and think it may be better placed on our board where it wont detract from the original thread. (not that i don't enjoy your board, I'm on here as much as my own tbf!).

(oh and i wasn't insinuating that all posters on the planning board were cas fans, i was only asking if cas fans in Methley had any more questions to ask someone who had studied the plans in a fair bit of detail.)