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.

This is a good question... & don't have a definitive answer!

The LDF 'target' was that the final inspectors report would be placed before the Exec and then the whole of WMDC council for ratification in June 2012 (this has always been the target). However, with all the changes in planning policy and shoe horning in a PI for Newmarket & two other consultation periods not originally envisaged because of changes in policy, then we are lucky not to be months behind with the LDF. I e-mailed the programme officer for the LDF (the person who effectively does all the technical admin work for the inspector) and asked her if she knew when Shelagh Bussey was likely to issue her final report and her answer was the report is due any time now, keep and eye on the WMDC website... which means I think even she does not know! I think whether or not the final LDF report is issued before the 19th June, that the SoS/Michael Taylor will have seen at least a draft copy of her report.

In fact, maybe both the PI decision and the LDF will be issued at around the same time because of Newmarket. As you say, the LDF is a massive indicator of the potential success of the PI and I am sure Eric Pickles and the current government would not wish to make themselves look stupid in anyway... but, given recent form... you never know!

Day - 12 and counting #newmarketnewopportunity

Rattling through them now, anyone planning a sesh' perhaps culminating in the 9s down at BV???
Stock pile those alcaseltzer!!!!

Don't know about you but I'm becoming more nervous as the day approaches, perhaps it's because I'm a pessimist at heart

Don't know if I'm setting myself up for a fall, but I am 100% positive.
I know you can't trust politicians, but I can't see how this cannot be passed with the country in the state it is in.

As mere mortals in this system we can never be 100% confident, even though I’d like to be. You just never know what goes on the corridors of power in London. Who’s pulling whose string and what vested interests are been trampled on. While to us the only logical thing is for it be passed, especially in the current economic environment. They live in a different planet to us down there (or so it seems at times), you just never know what their thinking. All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and hope common sense prevails!

According to the Al Qaeda forum, the development won't get the go ahead because by building on green belt we will be killing trees, thereby taking oxygen away, eventually causing asthma in children. You couldn't make it up.

Is that the same thread that laments the loss of acres of beautiful green belt land and states that York Court are too skint to build the development?

On a related subject - will anyone own up to being raj poot?

The same green belt (reclaimed colliery site) as GH, that they've been attempting to build on for eons?!??
Sadly when the good news comes out, the other forum will go into meltdown and they'll only have each other to turn on, oh and Dickie!!!

Unfortunately, it was inevitable that some posters on the Cas Forum were going to start and go down this route with their posts and I suspect it will continue from some posters until construction work starts... and possibly beyond!

I do find it immensely disheartening, because the only reason most of these posters want Newmarket to fail is because of the massive insecurity that exists around the franchising requirement for a new stadium (which we all understand!) and the lack of any positive news on WR & GH. They are mostly following the common narrative which has been pushed by the objectors and most of the stuff they are posting is ill-informed or wrong!

I am hate figure on Cas Forum for no other reason than for my support and work on Newmarket, which ultimately comes down to the same insecurities. Of course a similar common narrative has developed among these posters in that I hate Cas and want Cas to fail and my posts on RL Fans clearly show this however, you will be hard pushed to find these posts... because they don't exist! If someone want to go look, be my guest!

My wish is (and always has been) that Cas get what they want and can build there own stadium at GH.

On the subject of Raj Poot, well a couple of the less intellectual posters have accused him of being me... which I find rather insulting in some ways to be honest, but it isn't and whomever Raj is, he/she is clearly a Wakey fan! For the record, I do have a Cas Forum ID but I have never posted on the forum and never use any alias anyway, even on other forums unrelated to RL.

Also, while I am getting things of my chest, I have no vested interest, financial or otherwise to either the development of Newmarket, Yorkcourt Properties, Langtree Developments or any other company connected with Newmarket!

There, I feel better now!