Quote: Tigerade "I agree with that bit. You must admit though that the way in which the trust is formed doesn't help WT's cause. The trust's members are the 2 owners of the club (MC and CB) plus hard working supporters of WT - where is the public representation in that ? No one has been elected to the trust who doesn't have a WT bias and whose sole aim would be to fight for the public sports facilities only. There is no independent representation from Joe public on the trust.
The average member of public (and I'd go as far as to say a majority of RL fans outside the Wakefield area) see the trust as a vehicle to get WT a new stadium at all costs and the other sports facilities hardly get a mention. I've followed the story for years (as most probably know) and I have never seen a requirements list of what exactly the trust deem as appropriate public sports facilities.'"
If you're on about the other sporting facilities at Newmaket, you'd need to look through the pages and pages of files on the planning portal for the development, but from what I read the other day, the plans show two full size MUGA's with a seperate changing rooms block and a small stand overlooking the area. I take it the Trust were happy with that at the time, if that's what you mean
The Trust originally had Sir Rodney Walker as head.. It also currently has former Wakefield MP David Hichcliffe and also former WT director Eric Timmins. Has has been pointed out by one of the Trust members on our forum, they've invited representatives from WMDC to join as well as approaching the RFL to appoint someone as well. All these people WMDC and Yorkcourt have agreed to work with and like others have said, Jonathan Stone is 'joe public' with no interest or bias towards Trinity. Ask yourself would anyone with no interest in RL, or just any any other person, be bothered to sacrfice & put the huge amounts of time and effort into it when most people have got work and their on crap to worry about. The average joe public in Wakefield just expects the Council and developer to crack on with what was promised and stop messing around ad that would go with any development. For example when Trinity Walk started getting built & then came to a grinding halt with a big hole in the City for a couple of years, people just expected the Council to get the hole eventually sorted.
Also why would bias be brought up anyway. Yorkcourt wanted the land, they needed the Communities support, they said what they were going to do and build, so WMDC would take a load of land out of being classified as greenbelt and use a s106 agreement. It's them and WMDC that made it all about a Community Stadium and the 2000 jobs the warehousing was going to provide. So as rate payers in the City why isn't it ours and other people's concern, even if they may or may not support Trinity. I'm sure if it was near enough to you and about your Club and local Community, you wouldn't be protesting so much. It's funny because i know a number of Cas fans and they want the same as me, both teams in new stadiums, playing at the top end of the table, creating an even bigger rivalry and fill said new stadia. It would be what's best for RL in general imo.
As WMDC said at the time and I quote-
Quote: Tigerade "Projects such as Newmarket will help us to achieve stronger more sustainable and cohesive communities as well as improving health, tackling obesity and transforming people’s lives. It will create a hub of sporting excellence which we will welcome into the district.'"