There we go. The optimism didn't last long. Snout well and truly in the trough

If the council don't know by now where we can have a stadium then we're stuffed. I can't believe this
continued saga which has been going on for longer than two world wars.
We're talking about a simple (relatively!) sports stadium not a major shopping complex, that has now been going on for years and made WT the laughing stock of RL, and WMDC not far behind.

Tbf it's perfect location from town centre huge piece of land ,but access ?

Our first house was on Silcoates Park, at the far end of the playing field (Aspen Close), so I know the area well...

It is bordered by the Silcoates Park estate on one side, Peacock estate on another, the Leeds-London railway line on another and Balne Lane on the fourth side. The only access to the site would be from Balne Lane with it's single-file railway bridge !!
The only place to park would be on Peacock Estate !!!
Total and complete non-starter and as stated above yet another time-wasting red herring from the morons at WMDC and their associated cronies

Quote Khlav Kalash="Khlav Kalash"https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/stadiums-plans-are-re-balne-1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf'" That piece from 2010 contains the following line: Quote Khlav KalashBut it emerged that a covenant placed on the land when it was sold to the council by a [size=150Mrs Mackie[/size 70 years earlier said the field must be retained for community use. Read more at: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835'" Any relation, do we think??? This just looks like one more delaying tactic by the council - announce something different again and then spend another few months assessing the viability before giving up on it and announcing something else.....

Quote Khlav Kalash="Khlav Kalash"https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/stadiums-plans-are-re-balne-1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf'" That piece from 2010 contains the following line: Quote Khlav KalashBut it emerged that a covenant placed on the land when it was sold to the council by a [size=150Mrs Mackie[/size 70 years earlier said the field must be retained for community use. Read more at: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835'" Any relation, do we think??? This just looks like one more delaying tactic by the council - announce something different again and then spend another few months assessing the viability before giving up on it and announcing something else.....

I see Walker's 'charitable' trust is still not registered, at least not that I can see.

I was cautiously optimistic before that bloaters name got mentioned. If he is any way involved, forget it !!!!

His involvement tells you all you need to know its another scam.

Yet again Peter Box poses on more land.

If he put as much effort into sorting out the stadium as he does having his photo taken I would be more than happy.

Then we hear that Rodney Walker is also very pleased with how things are shaping up but still hides behind a clandestine trust that lurks in the shadows.

When will our politicians clean up their acts and be more transparent. Their actions leave me in content of how they treat the citizens of Wakefield.

Thought we had told RW to bugger off

It's the perfect solution.

That is the perfect solution for a developer who needs to build a small, cheap community sports facility to cover an obligation, a college who wants a small, centrally based sports facility without over-streching itself financially and a current sports ground onwer who wants to fully redevelop said sports ground into something else entirely whilst also wanting to get a good deal on a piece of land in a public park owned by the aforementioned college. Not to mention a council who have been criticised over it's lack of sporting facilities removing it's burden of an over-grown piece of land that can only be used for community use. Wins all round.

Execpt for one party that is. Yep, the club. It is in no way suitable for development into a 10K capacity stadium, for starters the infrastructure just isn't there and neither is the capacity to increase it sufficiently. Also the locals would be less than impressed to say the least and would kick up a fair stink delaying the whole thing even further, something we cannot afford. Non- starter from our point of view but from a smaller development possibly which would finish us off, i wouldn't rule it out.

Would love to see a statement from the club, it's been a while. Even it is just to say we have not seen plans for the BV re-development yet and to confirm that this has been mentioned to them

No mate..if you look closely, Box's photo has just been superimposed over the top of it...I bet he doesn't even know where the field is as it's nowhere near Cas