The funding of any project is not a material consideration of a planning application, although the general viability of the whole development is probably something the inspector will think about, whereas the progress of planning permission is usually fundamental when banks are considering an application to finance a scheme.

Nobody has really had the balls to go much further than innuendo about what financing is or isn't in place. Realistically, there's not much likelihood that there will be anything beyond an "agreement in principle" given the relative uncertainty about planning. It costs the banks money to set funding aside so there won't be a pot of money earmarked for the Newmarket scheme at whatever bank Yorkcourt are dealing with, so it's probably reasonable to say that right now Yorkcourt don't have an absolute certainty of funding. But that's not really a problem as we don't have absolute certainty on the planning yet.

Once the outcome of the PI is known, Yorkcourt can have more detailed conversations about the funding requirements with their banks.

I'm not disagreeing with your argument, but as fans, we've been told for nearly 2 years now that all the funding is in place. All we need is planning permission, and away we go...

And I'm sure that they have got the broad details of the funding agreed with the bank, but just that the bank aren't going to formally offer facilities until the planning permission is reasonably certain.

This is far more positive position than those suggesting that Yorkcourt are spinning a bigger crock of $h!t than Richard Wright normally does would have you believe.

On the basis that the PI outcome is as we hope it will be, Yorkcourt will submit the detailed planning permission as soon as they can and at the same time will start finalising details with their bank for whatever financing they need for the project. It's a simple matter of Yorkcourt and their bank wanting to work through things sensibly and professionally.

TBH, I was thinking more along the lines of what we've been lead to believe from the Community Trust re. funding. I'd always assumed that Yorkcourt would find the necessary money for their part of the project, given what they would earn from it.

You don't want to be saying sensible stuff like that; Mr Gubbage and his chums on the Cas forum might not see in 2012 if they don't have YCP's impending financial meltdown to cling to as the last hope that NM won't get built.

Great to hear positive things are being said and done both on and off the field. Well done to James and the boys.