Quote: TRB "You have missed the main issue here, namely that there is no stadium without the industrial development / offices / hotel etc. It is the gain from the development of these items which is funding both the land and, at least partly, the build cost of the stadium.
As mentioned above, I think Yorkcourt have been very sympathetic with the plans. The 'light' use units (pub / hotel / offices) are the ones based around the housing, with the 'heavy' units further away - resulting in lighter traffic movements around the existing housing. There is also attention to detail regarding the roadways and landscaping already. If you don't like something, tell the council - but I would suggest that you look at the details more closely and deal with them.
I never doubted for one minute that there would be complaints, but I have seen nothing yet to suggest that the wider population of Wakefield is not best served in this development occuring.'"
Sorry for not replying to some of your messages sooner I think I should have picked a better day to post my message when I would have had more time, anyway in reply to your post I realise that the ground can not go ahead without the industrial side and it is all well and good to say as another person has said that this used to be a pit site and so really is brown belt land but the fact is to my way of thinking that it is no longer brown belt and is fully fledged green in my eyes, and this really is in short supply in my eyes. Another concern of mine is that once this area has been industrialised it will be an absolute cert that the site will grow over the coming years with yet more warehouses and what have you, I really do not know what the answer is to all of this because as I have tried to make clear were it just new stadium facilities that were going on this land I would have no problem its just that I can see this whole site escalating because we are talking about a huge acreage of land here and ending up as one of the biggest industrial areas in the district and then all of our green belt or brown if you like will be lost and all that has gone with it, as I said in my first message I never expected my thoughts to be popular I just wanted them to be known and the reasons behind them.
