It's good news for us interesting to see next step will the council step up and fulfill their responsibilities to ensure the community stadium and facilities are built at Newmarket in accordance with the 106 agreement. Also what will they say about Belle Vue now Newmarket should be back on the agenda.

Up to Trin

around around in circles we go again! somebody lay a brick and then we might have some good news....

I'm reluctant to see this as good news; obviously it's in the interest of YCP to renew the planning permission - but that doesn't mean their intentions or plans have changed in terms of diddling the district out of the stadium they had to agree to in order to obtain planning gain. The interesting thing will be if Mr Box makes good on his public promise to force them into a s106 agreement that WMDC can enforce - and that I guess is the clever part of the Trust statement. As it stands however, we are no further forward, and I can't imagine that Mackie is any more willing to spunk 12 million quid on a stadium than he was before - I expect him to be as slippery with the new situation as he has been up to now.

We will know where we are when the council makes a statement, always assuming they make one. They will probably say nowt and let it drag on and on and on.

Wasn't there something in the budget about councils being able to take over unused land with planning permission to stop 'land banking'? I do wonder if Yorkcourt were just biding their time waiting for Trinity to fold, and when it became clear that wasn't going to happen seeking help from (ahem) other parties to try and divert attention from their obligations re. Newmarket. As others have said, it is a prime location and you cant imagine it NOT being built out if the will was there.

Just imagine if the council had felt compelled to take the land back!

I just posted something similar on the other thread.
I don't profess to understand it all so may be wrong on this but:
WMDC have it within their ability to insist upon a new s106 agreement in order to grant this permission.
They could insist that that s106 is the "perfect agreement" like Cas' and that the stadium build has to come first.

They COULD, but will they???? What it does I guess is put Box in the limelight given his recent statements at the televised council meeting. He can't carry on blaming the Tories for our imperfect agreement if he fails to deliver a new agreement when they are perfectly able to do so.

I guess that is precisely the point of the Trust statement; he threw his hands up and blamed it on Eric Pickles and a crappy Tory deal - and used the Cas example to illustrate how it would have looked if he'd dealt with it - now that statement is on the record, he can't deny it, so one would hope he'll be forced to deliver.

The next step will be what, if anything, YC do; they've shown their colours in terms of enthusiastically reneging on their legal obligations - so I wouldn't be surprised to see more chicanery.

Meanwhile, what's happened to Rodders - there is a deafening silence from him and his 'new' Trust...?

Slightly off topic, but everyone keeps alluding to castleford having a perfect agreement.....

If anyone would like to point out our new stadium then please direct me.....

When the plans first got announced we were told we'd be in by 2018 season.

We're about 9 updates and 0 bricks on from that.

Mmmm....where have I seen that before

It was Cllr Box who described the Cas development as the "perfect deal". I think that you have got a pretty good deal from it, but have been hit very hard with companies not really wanting to take up the site, probably because the more ulcerative site in Case is a mere stones throw away from the proposed development

When are the council writing up the new 106?