We might be better off inviting a guy called Michael Taylor up, who is the senior civil servant looking after this at the Communties & Local Government office & will be advising Eric Pickles on his decision. I have no idea if he likes curry though or indeed his BMI!

D -15! Not long now! #newmarketnewopportunity #benicetopickles

So what did Andrew have to say in his article?

He's looking forward to his birthday on the same day we should hear from the s.o.s..

He says how our City needs the sports facilities and the economic boost Newmarket will provide and on the 19th we also hoost the 9s so it will be party time at Belle Vue if we get the nod.

Day - 14 and counting #newmarketnewopportunity

I have been thinking I was wondering if the decision might be released on Friday 15th June? I always thought that it was likely to come on the 18th/19th & no earlier, but a Friday afternoon is always a good time to release these type of decisions! That also said, I understand that Michael Taylor does not work on Mondays & that would explain why a Tuesday was chosen as the final date! So I wouldn't expect the decision release on Monday 18th if we it has not been released before.

Ok, talked myself out of this theory as I typed, so 19th still I think...
as you where!

if planing is approved does it have to go through detailed planning before work can start.if so how long does this take?

if........... when its passed there's no reason why the diggers can't go in straight away to level the area where the ground is going to be

we have an area near us that has been leveled twice but building has been delayed

If I remember the PI correctly there is a 5 week turn around in place between the 19th & getting full planning in.

As far as any preliminary works"That would be commercial confidential information to our client, but as you know, being the "economic heavyweight" of the region, developments like this are no longer "built on spec"."[/i
Really humiliated the poor women on a number of occasions that afternoon. to be fair she tired her best to defend what was in in truth a paper thin argument, which was shown up for what it was.

thank for that just wondered what was going to happen after the green light was given

The simple answer is 'yes', we do have to submit detailed plans for approval. This is more of a formality and exchange of views between the developer and the planners at WMDC about colour schemes and materials as well as the technical stuff like how many toilets / what access is available etc.....

As others have said though, there is no reason that the initial groundworks cannot commence straight away though, but don't expect it to happen on the 20th!

Then it's all down to 2 things - one is the speed in which the developer can get tennants signed up and two is the ability of Sir Rodney to tie up the funding promised and, possibly, additional funding to bridge any gap caused by the delay in 1 above!

I spoke with Sir Rodney recently and expressed my view that I thought it likely that we would be able to move in for the beginning of 2015 (the start of the next licence period), to which he commented that he was hoping to have it sooner!

I hope he's right and I'm wrong!

1 week and 6 days

D-13 and counting

I am sure we will all be happy when we hear the result and its been one hell of a journey getting this far.

However I suspect that as soon as we get the approval there will be massive political activity behind the scenes to get our neighbours from Cas to come and share the stadium.