Good point but this might put it in a different light and answer your question! Before the global financial crisis then Ben Bailey had a rumoured £6m + option on WR. That was almost enough, it would seem, to allow Cas to move to GH with some support from the £2m from WMDC, £1m from Waystone (spent already) etc. Great!

Now the land is only worth half of that because housing land prices are in the toilet, however, commercial land prices, especially for retail, remain good, hence the switch to Tesco. Cas are the ones in a rush and not (on SPA N9) WMDC! The council have planned in the LDF for 2525 houses to be built in N9 by 2022, only 226 of which are planned for prior to 2016/17, the other 2199 are to built from 2016/17 onwards! On the WR site, the council have planned for 105 houses, of which 21 are planned by 2016/17 and the other 84 after. Now, of course that does look odd why only 21, if Ben Bailey had still been able to buy the site they would have built all 105 houses quicker than that.. yes, but what they do is split the requirement down to all the sites in N9 to represent the overall statistical position that the N9 site has to provide prior to 2016/17. So, if another site goes and provides more house than required, this and other sites don't have to provide them. So, the answer is that the council don't really have a need for this site to be released prior to 2017 for housing. By which time housing land values should have risen sufficiently again and Cas would get a better return on the sale.

So, that is how they can plan for housing... the don't need it happen, for the plan, for another 5 years!

Apart from the fact that detailed planning application is due for August 2011.

Simply quoting publically available information rather than saying "he said - she said" or divulging information from a source that other people cant chalenge.

I do wish IA would jog on, like a broken record.


I don't think I've ever read a rugby related post by him.

I am simply posting information that has been given to me from a credible source. The Opus time scale sent to the consultants working on the scheme says October, sorry!

I might even have a draft site proposal plan... but because I can't send it you, you can't verify that either!

You keep talking as if we all believe everything you have to say, you have told us some tale which just happens to suit your agenda, you have not provided any evidence about what took place in this meeting.

Now go on give us some long winded reply about how you want cas to have a stadium just as much as wakey, then go back to the wakey board and tell them all how everything is going well for them and that all the best possible timescales will be achieved for them (like you told them they wouldn't go to PI) and then come back on here and tell us everything will go wrong for us and say we should be campaigning hard to keep wakefield in sl (strange you dont seem to be encouraging them to support castlefords franchise bid like you keep telling us we should do for them).

If if it is a choice between listening to the club or listening to you i think i will listen to the club thanks.

If it were upto me we would we would both be in sl but it is going to come down one of us going down and nothing short of the welsh going bust is going to change that.

and you might have 7 legs and 23 eyes.

If your going to say you know better than people who are actually involved in this prove it or as has been said jog on.