The attitude of the council APPEARED to take a positive turn today. That attitude to the situation should have been there all along from the beginning.

Nevertheless it is still a change in stance and they should be given a chance to deliver. However in my opinion they should also be working against the clock and if things start to drift, they should be put under even greater pressure.

I think the developer will walk away at 59,500m2!

I suspect their attitude only changed, and the sudden U-turn to include Newcold in the build threshold, was down to the fact court action loomed and they knew they had a weak a case against us. Progress is definitely good, but lets not pretend this didn't happen on the back of calling Box/Council out on their crap.

I really do hate being negative after what appears good news, but doesn't it all seem a bit convenient, why has this all come to fruition after a week of negative press? As someone else has alluded to, what pressure can be brought to Yorkcourt if they decided to walk away or go bust on 59,000sqM?

Sound like progress but actions speak louder than words. Problem is what are we going to do next season ?
Think we need a another year at belle vue then in the stadium for 2019.

Agreed ^
I don't care if Box takes all the credit as long as the thing gets built in a timely fashion.
All the spin on Earth won't change what I think about him, so he can have his public relations exercise, its not important.
I assume the trigger point is at the level it is for YC to accumulate enough capital/profit/income whatever from the build to pay for the stadium.
Whilst everything coming out of the meeting appears positive and ought to be applauded, unfortunately it still leaves us at the mercy of YC, their conduct throughout this debacle, complicit or not with WDC, has been pretty leaden footed.
I would have like to have seen the trigger.....triggered as of now at 20k, instead we are relying on businessmen and politicians with agendas we are not parti to.
You don't have to be Einstein to collate some ideas about why the big fridge wasn't included in the trigger total, and I highly doubt it has anything at all to do with its height, heck, they changed that today with the stroke of a pen, so both these buggers have got form.

A big slap on the back to all posters on this Forum who did their part in applying pressure in one way or another. I'm sure that today's outcome came about through this pressure
I was at the meeting today and it sounded to me as though Peter Box wasn't PROMISING the £2,000,000 or even part of it but merely hoping to do so. Am I correct?

I wish I could feel positive about this but for some reason it just don't sit right for me, all trust has gone with Yorkcourt and I fear they have more cards up their sleeves, once bitten twice shy but we've been bitten a few times
as for Box my opinion of him will never change

Well well Peter Box the little tinker, telling us it was nothing to do with them when all along he was negotiating behind the scenes!

Well done to all concerned who have got us to this point. I don't care who takes the credit publicly, we all know who's been working behind the scenes tirelessly for a number of years to get us to this point!

We just need to keep up the pressure now, as others have said, there's gonna be some more twists and turns yet.

Still not going to vote Labour in the next local election and I hope others do the same.

Good for you. Are you old enough to vote?

Any chance of us insisting on a time bound trigger as well as the square footage one?
Eg when 60,000 sq m has been let or 2 years, whichever is sooner.

As others say I still fear them not reaching the 60,000 sq m trigger but I haven't yet met anyone who can stop time!!

Are you

Are you still stuck in the 1970s