Nay J D Pearman was Leader of the Labour Group and, therefore, Leader of the council. Rest assured, Box likely learned the ropes observing Mr Pearman which should tell you a bit!. Didn't he take a position advising your club about obtaining finance suggesting he had access to substantial figures?? As I recall that didn't go so well and Pearman allegedly went for a long holiday in Amsterdam! He "allegedly" also gave Rodders his position as council rep with you!

whatever the history is I am sure everyone with at least one brain cell must now realise this council of ours is most likely the most inept bunch in the country. Nearby Rotherham and Doncaster were also bad examples but I think our lot are also in that league.

I seemed to think that sometime this year it was stated that anymore builds at NM would count towards the trigger point, am I dreaming this? If so surely the club could take YC to court?
As an aside I firmly believe NM will never see the light of day, 4G pitches at a push, community facilities. ✅

As it stands the figure built is zero and this one would only be less than a tenth of what was required anyway. And whether it does count depends on the legal loopholes....

If the white monstrosity is an example of what any future developments on the site would look like, am I in the minority to think that I wouldn’t like to have the ground up at Newmarket anyway dwarfed by such structures. Would hardly be the most aesthetically pleasing of venues.

I'm of the same thought that it will never get built whilst box has a say in things, I would recommend everyone puts in objections to any more work being done up there until we have a watertight s106 including the space used by newcold. #corruptcouncil

Too late in the day to do anything about Newcold thanks to a certain knight of the realm allowing Yorkcourt and the council to get away with it without telling anyone.
The council do have it in their power to insist that any new application is supported by a new s106 agreement that is watertight. Any applications that do go in must be objected to on that basis. If the council ignore those objections then something can be done, if nobody objects then they can just do the same all over again.

That is my understanding of the situation, apologies if that is incorrect.

I must say I thought this to be the case too re trigger point
After it came out we had being conned with the original trigger point and MC looked at legal action

My understanding is that anything built will now count towards the bull trigger point

Why must there even be a trigger point
It's a joke

The development, in theory, funds the stadium build, without that there is no capital to construct the stadium hence the trigger. The council in either their ineptitude more likey worse collusion, allowed the developer a loophole so nothing will count towards the trigger point. All this on the basis of some fabled legal advice. If only more people gave a then Box would be under serious pressure.

Am I right in thinking that at the "infamous" council meeting last year Box said that the initial Newcold building would be taken into account towards the 60,000 sq m? If so, has he now reneged on this?

Yes he did say that.

Yes he did but it needed a completely new agreement which was totally unsustainable to Trinity which the club rejected, then we had Wallhead et al spewing Box's rhetoric all over the Express about the club wanting freebies!

You are wrong. It is still there and whilst I am no longer a Trustee, I keep in regular contact.

We will be objecting to this application, as with all and any applications on this site until such time as we have a legally tested agreement that delivers the Community Stadium we were promised, be that at Newmarket, Belle Vue, Balne Lane or somewhere else!

Watch this space!

Thanks TRB.

Thanks TRB hope your well not seen you post in a while.


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Thats really a message to everyone not just Inside Man...... Thanks.. ... Poptart