one word
lightwaves

Just googled it - never even heard of the place

its the pool with the slides in wakefield city centre!!!

Throwing a curve ball here...

Would the land that Lightwaves be on be worth more to the council if it was a retail park? Maybe a calculated move to an out of town facility could be double edged.

cant possibly know the answer to that.

but no!

Wadski it's a WATER PARK not a paddling pool. you really must travel a bit more.
It will create 200 jobs, not a couple of people with whistles.
In the Med and the States these places are huge attractions a large proportion are outdoor but many on the Eastern seaboard are indoors.
Look I'm a willycat thru and thru and our stadium is of the paramount importance to our club and it's future.
But i would be the first to congratulate Cas if they could double up with this type of development which would most certainly be a major coup for the district.

I would have thought that any developer wishing to build a Water park in the area would have at least looked into the Pugneys Leisure and Water Park as a possibility.

Its a much more idilic setting for a themed water park than at the side of the motorway with a huge shopping complex next door.

Like many others I'm wondering if this is another smoke and mirrors excercise by the Cas BoD and Richard Wright.

they could plant palm trees to cover the motorway view

yeah ands a bloody nature reserve!
so you cant pile all that concrete on those butterflies!
wheras cas has limited wildlife that hasnt been grilled and eaten so its ok

good luck to them thoug, if its this sort of venture they will need it, trust me!

Good luck to em, bought time some good news came out of their mouth instead of their chairman spouting the same stuff over and over again.

We need something like that at newmarket, defo would benefit from a nice big family pub and I think they shoudl try and do a gym, the one in Rothwell sports centre is jammers most nights.... stick a pool in their too and we will be sorted.

The proposed development I believe will be under cover and purpose built so will create its own setting. Located at the side of Xscape and the Outlet Mall on a Motorway Junction makes it perfect - far better than Pugneys.

pugneys could never happen.
and this will lose a fortune.
simple plain and uncontestable fact is non subsciption water facilities ie pools and slidy pools lose money.


and lots and lots and lots of it, freze it ie Xscape and it makes money because it cant leak drain get unhygenic etc.

I stand corrected.

I doubt they will be up to the standards of the three (are there still three?) in Disney Orlando.

I wonder if there was a reason they didn't build one at Disneyland Europe though?

Whilst I seem to appear very negative about this I would welcome somewhere different where we could take the kids for the day. My kids are very young but have an affinity with water and both go swimming weekly (one being only 12 weeks old and at a private pool). But I hate the Metrodome with a passion and the place was summed up for me by a kid stood in the pool sharing chips with his mother. Great concept that would have Jamie Oliver running to the hills.