It does but it is still missing any seats above it.

Lets hope the new stand is supplied with the normal plastic seats, just been reading another forum where some muppet believes that the RM stand contains wooden ones

not sure yet, looking at the artist impression it looks like the outer building will wrap around but may leave a gap between the two stands which presumably could be filled by extending the RM stand and well into that space.

just a few degrees cooler, in fact quite a few!

So just to re-fresh my memory - where are we up to with new stadia? Salford and Saints pretty much all problems resolved and just have to get the things built and Cas and Wakey still no nearer?

Wakefield and the Newmarket development planning application is currently with the SoS (Eric Pickles office) for a Public Inquiry referral decision. The government office asked for the deadline to be extend a couple of weeks ago, as they are allowed to do, and as such a decision is very imminent maybe this week or next but certainly before Christmas. It is felt that given the current noise about making planning decisions a local matter and cutting red tape as well as the case for the development stacking up in terms of Wakefield's LDF and previous legal direction for Wakefield to provide more B8 (distribution) development land on the M62 corridor, it is highly unlikely to get called in for a PI... but it is possible! So, if it does not get called in then (they have said) it will start on site in March, if it does get called in then it is any guess as to time frame but it could hold things up a good year!

Wakefield have said that next year is their last season at Belle Vue and that they will be playing at a temporary home for 2012 which everyone speculates will be Oakwell. If everything goes to plan then that should be only for the first half of 2012, if not could be longer.

Basically, if Wakefield get the news they are hoping in the next couple of weeks then it would appear to be a done deal, contracts will be signed (including with the temporary venue) and work will start on site before the application has to be submitted and, as such, Wakefield can put in their application with Oakwell and Newmarket being their homes for the next franchise period, both of which exceed the Super Leagues minimum standards.

just a minor point: the applications in FatBoy Pickles's office is for outline planning permission – once they get the response to him they still have to submit final permission and have it approved. Nicht wahr?

Have they confirmed this? Heard it mooted a few times though not seen it official, would it be held against them as far as RFL saying grounds must be ready by start of 2012 (bare in mind that's an extension in itself)?

The moving to a temporary ground or that this is their last year at belle vue?



They mention this a few times across press releases etc.

i find that very hard to believe.

Tempory ground, had seen the last season pieces