Colin Mackie turns out to be cleverer than HM Inspector, the legal dept of WMDC *and* the legendary Sir Rodney Walker; who'da thunk it?

Fair play to him - amoral weasel he may be, and although money doesn't buy happiness, it's a lot more comfortable to cry in a Bentley than on a bicycle.

I wonder how long the legendary Sir Rodney Walker has known about this.

Too busy with bigger and better things (Le Tour)

The more I read about this the more angry and frustrated I become. Planning for the development wouldn't have granted if the stadium wasn't part of it, thousands signed petitions yet the development seems to be getting built without the community stadium, what's WMDC stance on this?

It would indeed be good to see our elected council and council lots comment on this.
I'm very surprised that the WE at least haven't been running some kind of story on this.
Radio Yorkshire (who often post on here) should also be interested.

It's not yet time for this. It may not be long in coming though!

I tell you exactly what the stance of WMDC is.

They realise they have dropped a huge one and have done so for a number of months. They have sat back and done nothing to right their wrong. However they have held out a carrot to Michael Carter in the form of buying back Belle Vue and then providing funds to upgrade the stadium. The idea is that some of the NM stadium land can be re designated and the profits from this is to go to the Belle Vue project.

It gets even better, the person they have in mind to redevelop the newly designated land is the one and only Colin Mackie.

They know full well that this has no chance whatsoever of happening but by going down this route they can draw the whole thing out for two or three more years. We will then get to a stage when everyone has to accept that there is no money to redevelop Belle Vue. The council will then say that it was the clubs fault for preferring that option and they went along with the clubs request. They will also say that Newmarket was killed off by the club requesting this and now its too late to go back to the original plan. (So if you are reading this Daddycool don't fall for it and stick out for Newmarket.)

Here's a bit of cynical speculation to round all this off. By this time ,the New Cas stadium will be well on the way so they can get out of any further obligations by offering us a share over there.

Greedy dishonest developers, hapless local authority squandering community assets and tax payers money, duped supporters of luckless rugby team...
Plenty of plot lines to get started with.
Anyone got michael moore's number?

Not falling for anything. The trust would confirm that we wanted to go public with all this months ago. Quite frankly it stinks. And it's time for someone to become accountable. Because someone somewhere in my opinion will become quite rich out of this.
The club still is only on the periphery of this, because the club just agreed to be an anchor tenant of a community facility.
But the club and the trust are joined on this. And pressure is being applied. But nobody in office seems that bothered! Just throwing out excuses and passing the buck.

If this is still the case then it's time to bring in the media to raise the profile.
While ever these people can hide and I include YCP here; they will.

If sec of state office believed that the development would only go on if the community stadium was built, couldn't they stop YC developing further till it was sorted out?

You may be interested to know that one or two councillors are starting to ask questions and they are being told the only reason Newmarket will not happen is because the club doesn't want to play there.
Don't worry you will have all our support we are right behind you on this and up for the fight.