Everything in that statement from Wright can be ignored apart from the very important part of:-

"The substantial and far reaching boost to the local community is wholly dependent on securing planning permission for a retail scheme at Wheldon Road in the first instance.

"A new stadium for Castleford Tigers at Glasshoughton which will secure the future of the club in Super League and provide our supporters with a new home to be proud of, is just one of many advantages that planning approval at Wheldon Road will facilitate."

Nothing without planning and as we know planning takes time for a scheme like that.

With statements like that he's going down the route of 'its not my fault its the planning people that have cost Cas.' when Wheldon Road doesn't pass planning.

Thats something we tried 5 years ago with Thornes Park so really Cas are 5 years behind us now!!!!!

Where's IA (:CROWN:) ? You Cas hater you!!

=#FF0000Most important meeting in the clubs history

Thats the thread title and while i understand people wanting to comment on RW, thats not what this threads about, out of respect for posters who wish to discuss this topic and not wade through the usual Cas related stuff.


=#FF0000Please stay on topic.

But if we started a thread about Richard Wrights apparent retort to Andrew Glovers most important meeting you'd shut it and tell us to go to the Cas board!

And my views not changing on either subject, posters have a right to be able to log in and read/post this thread about "the most important meeting" they may or may not want to read about RW and Cas and out of respect for them nothing changes.

I understand that Cas threads are locked on this board but thats how we choose to operate this board.

So that leaves the VT and in this case the Cas board.

In order to release the land equity funding from WMDC then the stadium has to have a community element to it, although at the moment there does not appear to be any details on what the community element will be.

It is not just an opinion, it is there in black & white in the planning conditions. A new access road is required to be built and in service prior to the stadium starting to operate. Another maybe £1m or so that they need to find?

Not wanting to circumvent any rules here but there's obviously a lot of people who do want to discuss this and they're mostly Wakefield fans.

This is definitely Richard Wrights attempt to gazump Andrew Glovers meeting so it is related to the topic of the thread.

If we went to the Cas board we'd be labelled trolls and trouble makers, if we went to the VT we'd be told it was a Wakefield topic.

He is on holiday in France (the gorgeous Ile de re) so is only accessing the board on his friends IPad now and again.

Although, I am pleased to see that RW (or some of his flunkey's) have seen fit to help give further substance to what I know to be true!

There are some very interesting things in both the press release and the flyer promoting the petition! First thing is why, if the meeting had gone so positively well would the club feel the need to get a target 15k petition up and running, even before they have put in an application? You don't even know what exactly you are supporting? The thing is this is IMO, only half about pressuring WMDC and the other more main reason is to actually make it appear to the RFL that the scheme has overwhelming support and therefore more likey to go through quickly.

There are a couple of other things that jump out at me as well and that is some key points they are keen to push!

"Stop retail leakage from Castleford"

"help regenerate the town centre"

"make Castleford a better retail destination"

and finally

"Be the catalyst for further investment in Castleford town centre..."

The thing is these are the issues, I understand, that WMDC raised as the issues that they saw as the obstacles to granting permission for a supermarket on this site. They are worried about the impact of such a large retail store will have on the town centre, which is struggling to recover from GH. Morrison are going into Cas town centre because they were told by the planners that this was their only option of getting into to Cas, so this was the only real option they were given!

They do say "That every little helps" but I don't think the planners have the same opinion!!!

Come on I_A, surely you know as well as I do, that the link road is not just for the stadium.

It is also part of the approval for the remainder of the office/hotel/ and other development, together with an area for a 400-750 plot housing development.

Do you honestly think that the developers (Waystone) will be expecting the Cas club to fund that? I know that if you, or I, were interested in any plot on new Industrial Development we would not pick up the tab for the infrastructure.

Well funny you should ask... I understand that this is a sticky point between Cas and Waystone! Waystone are looking to Cas to make a significant contribution to funding the link road and because it is a condition of the stadium operating, they have a good hand here! I understand that Waystone's opinion is that they have given Cas enough, by giving them the site for nothing and already spending a million on it (although, they had always that to spend). This of course is all irrelevant because, if RW pulls off his deal with Opus, which he will in the end, then he will have the money anyway and Waystone will be happy for them to pay for it, win, win. If things don't come off with Opus then Waystone might reconsider, but until then, why would they?

Do you still believe WR road will be sorted by Christmas?



I notice that Cas Forum seems to have turned into a pro-development forum, which given is previous stance on opposing NW does look rather hypocritical. Even some of NW most vocal opponents suddenly seem to have very strong opinions on why this must be passed by WMDC and seem to be unable to see any negatives at all... It is very de je vue over there at the moment!

I particularly like Casmania's post saying that the council agree that Cas needs another supermarket... If only they could agree on the best location for it, then it could sorted by Christmas... this Christmas!