I believe 3 sheds all with secured tenants the largest being an Amazon hub.

I enjoy reading these posts and clearly, there are some very knowledgeable people commenting. However, I honestly believe that as with most developments somewhere down the line that it has already been decided, long before planning, that it's probably a goer. Whether in this case that is so or it's another string them along with affair, none of us mortals knows just yet.

In my limited experience if someone important wants this to happen then it will regardless of the formalities, that person will almost certainly be someone who smells a profit. As they say in every crime series 'follow the money trail'.

Of course, public money is involved here so there is a moral element both in terms of need and financing. However, it will be the profit motive that will drive it on should it happen.

I get the impression this time that there is a deal to be had, how it works and who lines there pockets I don't know, but for some reason, it just feels to me like this one has legs. It appears all the players involved are savvy, it's a fine balance but it seems they all need the co-operation of the others for things to work. The club and by association the Council must hold some valuable cards, if not I can't see any reason why it would have got even this far.

With my Trinity specs off it doesn't look an especially profitable enterprise, not at first glance.

That said, it's something the Council need to address politically and have done for years and it's a fairly easy route to take compared to a new development. For Yorkcourts and co it removes all hurdles that may still exist allows them to do virtually whatever they want at Newmarket and that is where the real money lays, All that for what I suspect to be a very low cost, certainly far far less than the original NM development!. For the club it's basically the only option left, the plans are a shadow of what we should have got but it will allow the club to crawl over the minimum standards line for a SL ground. We deserved far more but at least it gives the club a starting point, it will basically make BV worth developing further in the future. Something that without this kick start we would never have been able to do.

It's still not a done deal but I do have faith in both JM and MC to believe that they won't be screwed, they both seem like men who check the small print. Also without Box no longer in the mix anything and I mean anything suddenly has one hundred times the integrity than it had before.

That's my very un-educated take on the situation.

The stadium as you say quite correctly is simply an “inconvenience” on the Developers part to facilitate the development of NM.

I’m very close to both schemes because of my job and close to the professional teams working on them.

The Club have engaged with some high end quality consultants at I would expect no small cost.

I don’t see any way this proposal will not come to fruition.

That's how I see it. For the developer the BV upgrade is a very cheap and easy get out. My guess is that phase 1, which if I'm honest is the only phase we are going to get out of the NM debacle will come in at anything between 4-6 million at a guess. I suspect the ten-year-old NM development would cost at least 20 million in today's money and perhaps much more. The maths say it all.

The Wakefield public has been robbed but at least if we get this, we have not been robbed blind (though not far off). Anything salvaged from the last twenty years of effort has to be considered a triumph of sorts and some limited form of justice has been achieved.

They’re nowhere near the size of this, Arnold Clark is basically a 400 car space car park and a show room, the staff car park for this proposed warehouse/distribution centre is 360 spaces, OE is a manufacturing site not a warehouse and occupies a site the 1/3rd of this proposal and their building is less than a 1/4 of the sqft of this B8 warehouse

Peel Holdings, aren’t they the company that built and own the “A J Bell Stadium” over in Salford. I’ve often seen comments by Salford reds fans, that the stadium owners, take all refreshments revenue on match days, I hope Trinity are masters of their own house.

That’s new expansion north of England Highways control office it was on a sign
Regarding the development you refer to at the other side of the police building, that does look like a huge piece of land and, like you say, one big warehouse on there will look out of place.
Off Topic (even more so), we frequently see Martin Holland down there walking his dog, have you bumped into him yet ?'"

Cheers FT...PM sent so as not to hijack the thread anymore.

Peel’s head office is in a rather impressive Bubble above the Trafford Centre, it’s like something a James Bond villain would have as their lair, and they basically own everything as far as the eye can see from there, including the Trafford Centre and all hotels etc around it.

Peel nor Henry Boot will have any ownership of the Trinity Stadium though so fear not.

Completely different kind of development. We are having a stand built for us to offset the NM scheme. The AJ Bell is a stadium built and owned by Peel and then basically rented to Sale and Salford.

Our partner as far as I can tell us WMDC. The developers input is to fund and build the east stand and north stand and thus discharge themselves from their NM obligation.

Today’s latest document, this one from *West Yorkshire Ecology”
This time it’s Birds & Bats. To: Masheder, Robert <Robert.Masheder@wyjs.org.uk>
Subject: Wakefield Planning Consultation Ref 20/02587/FUL
Please respond to the attached document quoting the planning application number 20/02587/FUL
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