How many on here are attending the full council meeting? I am for one. Does anyone know how many the public gallery holds?

Three of us going

I'd go for that!

My guess would be a groundshare proposal with Cas. I am certainly not expecting anything other than smoke and mirrors.

Don't forget... That there are some local elections coming down the track.so Box needs to make it look like him and those other noddys that are running the show are doing something about it!
But I agree keeping the pressure on is what is needed right now.

No local elections this year in the Wakefield District but agree keep the pressure on.

DOH..... My mistake... With all the I've had through my door regarding elections thought they were country wide!

Three of us going to the meeting.

A bit off topic, but just to show how very lax our beloved council Planning Dept are at enforcing their own planning laws that some years ago they ordered the owners of the Grade11 "listed" Wakefield Arms public house adjacent Kirkgate railway station to improve the state of the building. It is now April 2017 and absolutely nothing has been done. What a welcoming site it is to visitors to the city. If I'm not mistaken ythe same applied to the Regal cinema too. So how much chance of enforcing the Newmarket development. Good old WMDC!!!

I would add to the above post that their orders were enforced under the backing of The Town & Country Planning Act (1990) so a legal requirement.

Aye, my old man would be turning in his grave if he could see the state of the Wakey Arms now, twas his local for decades. I'm really surprised though it hasn't been bought and converted into either flats, wth it being 3 stories. Or with Kirkgate Station getting finally redeveloped a new pub opening.
I remember the ABC Cinema getting planning consent for a load of flats and shops back in 2009 and apparentely through someone I know, who knows the owner of the site , funding fell through because of the recession. From what I've heard , the bloke bought the ABC Cinema as an invesment and obviously had big plans for it at one time, but since then has turned into a bit of a nightmare for him. Wth other funding etc falling through in the intervening years. Something needs doing with it though, the owner and Council need to get together and get the place redeveloped because it would do wonders for that side of town.

ABC will probably disappear under the proposed Kirkgate redevelopment plan Shifty

Ah, just looking at the 'Kirkgate Master Plan' now & they're doing more than I thought tbf. Didn't realise they were literally doing the full length of Kirkgate in 3 phases.

So Hopefully we'll see the back of the old WRCC Higways/ WMDC eyesore

Apologies if it's already been posted but this afternoons council meeting can be seen on a live stream apparently. Handy if you can't make it in person. wakefield.gov.uk/livestream

Apologies if it's already been posted but this afternoons council meeting can be seen on a live stream apparently. Handy if you can't make it in person. wakefield.gov.uk/livestream