Wakefield City council have provided £300,000 of £900,000 to a new Wakefield Cultural Arts Centre which will be opened later this year on Westgate next to Theatre Royal , meanwhile Wakefield Trinity new stadium?????? add your thoughts please.

Nothing WMDC do surprises me anymore.

Surely you need culture to have a cultural arts centre? And I mean more than flogging the s**t out of Barbara Hepworth Andy the Cribs.

The stadium is not Trinity's if it ever gets built it will be a Community Trust, I cannot see the correlation here this is the Council are donating 33% to the cost, the stadium is reliant upon buildings being completed.

Whether the voters of Wakefield agree to the donation in comparison to service cuts by the council can probably only be measured at the ballot box and as we all know in Wakefield it will be difficult to impact on the labour party influence.

the longer no announcement or even a update about anything positive re a upgrade or new stadium- another nail gets put in the coffin

Wow, another one of your well thought out constructive posts, very enlightening you should post more often

Like someone else previously said, surely we need culture first.

Maybe not a nail in the coffin for us, but certainly further down the pecking order now, with Mr Box, in his big top tent.

The sporting facilities in Wakefield as a whole are a disgrace. The council made no efforts to help Wakefield cricket club or Wakefield rugby union and look what happened to those sides. The sooner we build our own stadium and stick two fingers to the council the better.

While I'm by no means interested in 'the arts', the money WMDC have put into the Westgate Centre is a drop in the ocean for what a Community Stadium would cost.
What we need from WMDC is some genuine interest and help not 300k!

You can't just complain everything the council pay money for something that isn't the community stadium.
Culture and the Arts in general is just as important to some residents of Wakefield as Trinity is to us.

This post just alienates that group of people

I've no problem with a Cultural Arts centre in Wakefield in fact I think it's great. However my issue is with the fact that the council are more than happy to get involved with projects like this but actually go out of their way to prevent us getting a new stadium... all they had to do was refuse planning permission for the cold store!
I've a lot of time for the arts and cultural groups the job they did to save unity hall deserves our praise. In fact we could learn a thing a top from it! Wakefield Unity Stadium has a nice ring to it

If you need any help or advice on the [icentre[/i dont feel embarrassed or ashamed to ask those who beat you last Sunday and whom are the current Challenge Cup and UK City of Culture holders.

Nice try, but I can only score you 3/10.

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Just my attemt at being helpful and factual.
That boozer opposite the Citilodge hotel is fairly cultural although I personally prefer the basics and manliness of the Grey Horse.