They have rubbish grounds by PL standards, but they're still relatively decent grounds. Everton are getting a new ground anyway.

The agreement the trust, fronted up by Rodney Walker signed with the developer of Newmarket, that they would build Wakefield a new stadium to play out of, when a certain amount of units had been built and occupied, adding up to 60,000sqm in total.

The problem is the trigger point hasn't been reached, even taking the Newcold eye saw into account, a lot more units will have to be built to reach that trigger point, and I don't think Newcold will be added to the s106. According to the Met, Sir Rodney knew and didn't object to this, so it seems he has some hard questions to answer .

The point is the trigger point will never be met if WMDC continue to allow future applications to sit outside of the UU. They had the power to not grant the Newcold application, they chose to approve it and allow it to not contribute to the enabling development. They can not or will not say why they did this. They've even refused a FOI request. They have something to hide. This goes beyond sports facilities and the more exposure this gets the more uncomfortable certain officials will be getting.

Id love to be proved wrong but unfortunately I don't think a new stadium will come from this action, however if shady dealings have been going on then it's only right those who have benefited are punished.

Praise indeed!! Cheers!

That's the thing, the Newcold is getting extened & doubled in size to abbout 44,600m2. Just imagine if all of it counted towards said trigger point, we would only be 15,400m2 off and imo when more of the site gets developed, like it is currently, I believe more will get built.
Like others have said, why wasn't it part of the trigger point in the first place by WMDC. WMDC and Yorkcort know that they only got the land because of the 15,000 signatures and the promise of decent sporting facilities for the Community, so why not enforce it. Even at this point there's no reason they can't add it to the S106 in the form of a multi-party agreement, although I doubt they will.
Also they're passing the buck a bit saying they told Rodders (although he comes out of this looking shady tbh). It should be in their own interests to have this part of the trigger point & get this development up and running properly. Ateotd they're meant to be working for the Community to enforce what was promised.

Rodney Walker is a sideline issue thrown in by WMDC to distract attention away from the truth. Rodney may have some questions to answer and he certainly seems to have acted in an immoral manner.

The quoting of "No Objections" is also irrelevant as it too is a distraction from the WMDCs possibly illegal failure to enforce the SOSs ruling. There's also some very suspicious and questionable anomalies surrounding the timing, wording and transparency of WMDCs planning documents pertaining to the Newcold build.

The main question is why did WMDC choose to allow the Newcold build to fall outside the UU (which IS a S106) when they have a legal obligation to to enforce The SoSs ruling.

That ruling stated that the land involved would only be lifted out of the Green Belt on the express provision that the developer built Community Sports facilities and a Community Stadium once 60,000sqm of warehousing was built out.

The SoSs Officer clearly ruled that this was a legal condition and that the land in question could not be disaggregated. What that means is that the ruling is on the land and not any particular planning application. Therefore any planning application is subject to this condition and it is the legal obligation of the ruling Planning Authority (WMDC) to ensure its enforcement!

There seems to be no logical reason whatsoever for WMDC not to enforce the SoSs ruling, indeed they have brought suspicion and possible legal action against themselves by not enforcing it.

The subsequent intransigence, evasiveness and failure to answer the charge against them further increases a feeling of complete distrust in WMDC and in particular its Leader, Peter Box.

Obtuse statements that the WMDC did not sign the UU and it therefore has nothing to do with them, that WMDC are not beneficiaries of the UU which they clearly are and that they are not responsible for enforcing a planning application ruling for a huge development IN WAKEFIELD are so crazy and illogical as to invite suspicion.

Refusing Freedom of Information requests and eventually admitting that legal advice fundamental to their position hasn't been kept on record is at best incompetent and at worst. . . we'll make your own mind up!