I'll be there, in my Wakey shirt and on my best behaviour. Unlikely to be celebrating afterwards - will have to get back into work mode for a few hours.

I dearley hope we get what we want friday but i think wakey council will defer it to London ministry of enviroment then after a few month send it back to our council. Im affraid judging by the state of wakey theres only 1 acceptble decision and thats the golden stamp. Only 1 decision we should cheer friday guys and that is it : - GOLDEN STAMP !!

the decision will be already made in the councilors heads,

I doubt they will alter their own mind on what they have resourced to be prepared for this day, the feeling coming back from the emails gives you a sense of Wakefield pride and rebirth, we can only stand and wait

see you all soon

What an £$%^&!!!!!

rlPoor Old Leeds!rl

Well why don't you allow a regional development that includes for thousands of jobs and sporting facilities on the doorstep of many of your poor residents then!

I know they've been 'appeased', but they seem to want to have their cake and eat it!

Make sure and watch Look North tonight. There is a feature on the proposals with Tanya!

That was the tack I used when supporting the whole development.

In an age of unprecedented job losses etc, you would think both Local & National Government would support the whole application.

Also won’t the WMDC receive cash via Business rates created by the damn thing?

B.T.W. What’s happened to the Council planning officials?

I’ve read the H.A’s objections, however, not seen / missed their recommendations?

None of us think the club will get that lot built.

The club will be tenants of the Community stadium - we're not building anything.

You really want to think before you start posting next time.

The planning officers report to the committee is here - rlhttps://mg.wakefield.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID

It is fairly neutral to be honest but also it is not filled with anything we did not expect to see. They have stopped short of making an actual suggested recommendation but it leans towards one! We could have hoped for something slightly better but I think this is a balanced view as you will get.

My default position is usually to disagree with whatever Ms Warsi says, but she's got this one right; the ironically named Mr Wakefields' outburst was irresponsible and stupid. It almost reads like to a call to arms!

As has been pointed out though, a major weakness in the Govt's justification for swingeing cuts in the public sector is that the private sector will take up the slack; it would be pure madness therefore, for them to call in this application.

On that basis, if we get a minded to approve tomorrow, I'd be strongly inclined to believe the development will go ahead.

Good I won't have missed it then.
What time's it on?

Around 2225 BBC1 at the tag end of the National news. Apparently the headline story is that TRB pulls Tanya after making proposals (according to his post).