Who paid for the land clearance? Waystones. That would have been done for s stadium or any other build.

clutching and straws spring to mind,i can just imagine you are wiping away tears has you are typing trying to convince yourself its all lies and it cannot happen.

why do you think wakefield wouldnt go with the feasability study ?

because they were always behind the glasshoughton project and they new they would come a poor second.

why are wakefield the only club to have a back up plan with a move to barnsley the only option ?

again anyone with an ounce of brain can see that leeds council will send it to a public enquiry which will put months if not years on any possible build.

so dont say im deluded when you have far more worries surrounding newmarket "which i hope gets built for the sake of rugby league in the wakefield district" wakefield without any shadow of doubts best hope of a new franchise is salford and castleford failing and that is all you are clinging onto.

Leeds council won't be doing anything on this. You can take that to the bank.
As I said lets wait and see.

We're all getting too eager on this. Let's just take a breather and take a few steps back before making comments that might come back to bite us on the bum.

I've always had faith it will happen but I won't believe it until I see the steel in the ground and SWC praying to the Gods.

The Wakey fans will be cynical of our stadium plans just like we will be of theirs. But no use fighting over it really. There's not much we can do as fans.

Since when do Leeds Council send the development to public enquiry ? Sounds like your doing some straw clutching with all that lot you've typed.

What he means is by Leeds City Council objecting the plan along with the action group the local villages this will force the plans to go to public enquiry.

No it won't.
Any group wishing to speak at the planning meeting (including the club, SWAG and the trust) will only be allocated 3 minutes to put forward their case.
We can show clear evidence for the improvement in the road network, further economic stability for the region and widespread social improvement brought to the area by this scheme.

I can already imagine the NIMBY's trying to get their 3 mins worth!
"Eh.... eh... TREE'S!.......ehh..eh Walk my dog.....eh..traffic!...(10 seconds left...better tell the truth!!)...eh..eh..eh...I don't want it because I'm a Cas fan!!!"

If you knew how little local opposition could ACTUALLY do I don't think you would make claims about the all powerful LCC.
Don't forget while we maybe under the boot of LCC, you however are under the boot of WMDC- know your place!!!!

Firstly, an objection from a neighbouring local authority (if indeed you could say that is what Leeds City Council have done, strictly speaking they haven't IMO) or objections from a handful of local residents is not going to simply 'force' the secretary of states office into a public enquiry. They will look at the context and strength of the arguments presented and, as I have said before, they strength of the arguments coming from the people that are currently opposing Newmarket is weak with the only real valid argument being the current Green Belt designation of the site. However, as we know that Wakefield already have legal requirement to find an additional 95 hectares of commercial development land along the M62 corridor under the LDF review, the current Newmarket site goes along way to providing a reasonably large amount of that requirement. As the majority of that 95 hectares, wherever it ends up, will most probably have to be taken from currently designated Green Belt somewhere, the argument will be if not here on an old reclaimed pit site, where else? The potential impact of the Newmarket Development is low and only will directly effect a very small number of residents (despite what they have been very good at trying to convince people is otherwise). Another site, might not have that advantage!

It should also be remembered that ultimately, the decision as to whether it does get given a public enquiry comes down to politicians. The chances of this project ever seeing a public enquiry IMO are slim and are getting slimmer all the time under the new coalition government. They have cut the BSF programme and that has hit the Yorkshire construction industry hard and growth forecasts have been substantially cut, with unemployment set to rise well into next year and possibly beyond do you really think that this government will send this to public enquiry to save a handful of votes in both a reasonably secure Labour seat and very secure authority in Wakefield, a new Labour controlled council in Leeds (and leader, in Councillor Wakefield) and a very sercure Tory seat in Elmet & Rothwell?

You can never really predict these things and I could be wrong, and it could end up in a public enquiry... but somehow I doubt it!

None taken mate. Don't think many Cas fans will be taking the announcement as gospel and that's why I posted it without comment....simply to add an update to the thread.

Anybody else see Tricky Dicky being interviewed on Look North this lunchtime with his drawings of the GH?

He was asked directly "Do you have the money to build it?" to which he replied "We have a very strong business plan"
He was then asked where the money was coming from and looking very uncomfortable started waffling about money from current ground, council, Waystone, land assets and fund raising by the fans.

What a load of cobblers!!!