cheers mate ill chuck him a treat next time i drive past you on a morning!

Whatever

Good old Outwood Tiger.

Made a real fool of herself hasn't she?

That.....



was the biggest dummy spit I have ever seen....


I can only imagine the red face... tears and jumping up and down that accompanied the typing fron Falmouth (which are very nice places... Cornwall and MA!).

I hope that the objectors will come to the table to help manipulate the development to their benefit (for as has already been said... development WILL happen either now or in 5 -10 years... a well planned and environmentaly/ community friendly one now is better than a forced mess in the future)... rather than sit in the corner and cry!

It would appear to be an alias of a Castleford supporter who lives in Outwood (a village north of Wakefield on the way to Leeds) or if not just a resident venting their anger at the inevitable.

The objectors are pinning their hopes on Leeds City Council (as most of them live in Leeds, which as you know is another City entirely) somehow being able to force this to a public inquiry (they have no such power, they can only ask the people who do have the power nicely) and even then they think that given the current Coalition Governments cuts putting millions out of work over the next five years they are going to agree to spend circa a £1 and lose the opportunity of 2500 + private sector jobs... but we are the stupid ones apparently!

I honour of IAs contribution to this most entertaining thread I give you........................






Thanks IA

A poster on the Cas board claimed that any PI is funded by the local government not by the central government, is this true to the best of your knowledge AI?
Bit tired to do the wider reading- it is half term after all.

Central government are the ones that direct the call in if they think it required and then hand it over to the The Planning Inspectorate to run the inquiry. I would think that the bulk of the cost comes out of the annual budgeted running costs for the The Planning Inspectorate, I suspect a LA will have to find rooms and a suitable venue to hold the inquiry (County Hall) and of course pay for the work it will do to support the upholding of their original minded to approve decision. Either way, they are not cheap!

Don't also forget that public inquiries take a lot of work, especially from the objectors point of view. I am not sure they have it in them to be honest, even with LCC doing their bit!

The reason Leeds councillors don't want the development to go ahead will most likely be because they have plans for their own industrial estate on the north side of J30 - they won't want Wakefield getting the prime customers first.

Got it in a nutshell! This is a council that have developed on green belt before, the environment didn't seem to bother them then!

I have just come across the 'appeals list' on the The Planning Inspectorate site and in the three months to end of the year they are only three called in applications to be heard at PI's!!!! They used to call in about 50 a year, so that suggests to me that the current government have probably only called in a small hand-full since they came to office.

Which makes it more likely IMO that the most controversial ones will be called-in. Whilst I don't agree with it, IMO the only way to settle this argument fairly is to hold an independent inquiry and Wakey fans can argue back but this has nothing to do with what's in the development (we all now the potential benefits - potential being the key word as it is by no means guaranteed), more to do with location and what it's situated on (greenbelt).