How dare you refer you refer to a lady in those terms!

Ok, good news everyone!

As I mentioned at the Supporters Trust meeting the Newcold application is to go before the WMDC Planning Committee this coming Thursday 26th September at 10.30am in the Council Chamber in County Hall. The agenda pack for the meeting has now been uploaded to the website and it is the good news we expected.
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Quote: "CONCLUSION

The proposal has been fully assessed against national and local planning policy guidance. Careful consideration has been given to all material planning considerations and in particular the visual impact of the development, the loss of landscaping, highways and noise issues.

The proposed building is in line with the Site Specific Policies Local Plan and will contribute towards bringing forward part of the B8 allocated for the site. The proposal will generate 154 jobs would benefit the district in terms of the long term economic gain. The proposed access road will enable other developments permitted within the outline consent to be delivered which will facilitate the delivery of further jobs and opportunities for investment.

The proposal would not prejudice the delivery of the remainder of the outline permission or
the community stadium. The application as submitted would contribute to moving forward the possible construction of the community stadium as it delivers part of the access road and infrastructure which is not presently available and is required if the stadium is to be constructed.

It is acknowledged that the proposal will have an impact in terms of visual amenity by virtue of the size of the building. The LVIA acknowledges that there are potential impacts on landscape character which are moderate adverse however there are none recorded as critical adverse and it is considered through appropriate mitigation in the form of maintaining the majority of established trees within the site as well as the planting of woodland trees and hedgerow that the impact of the proposal would be reduced.

In conclusion it is considered that the economic benefits and job creation through the development would outweigh the landscape and visual impact. The proposed development is on a site which has been specifically allocated for the type of use proposed. This has to be considered alongside the fact that the proposed development will be the first phase of a wider employment allocation and that it delivers infrastructure (including the road improvements allocation) which facilitate the delivery of the remainder of the site. Subject to the imposition of planning conditions the proposal is acceptable when assessed against national and local planning policy and therefore conditional approval of planning permission is recommended.'"

We understand they want to get started on-site as soon as possible!

BTW - Interestingly there were only two letters of objection received!

Let me guess that fender woman and bigalf?

Tricky Dicky and Leeds council?

A ray of sunshine in the middle of a hurricane!

Zing!

An excellent end to a strange old week.
Cant wait to see the bulldozers moving in

Excellent news and an important for the future of our club and sport in the City. Was our chairman was meeting Mr Walker today hope it was a positive meeting

No, no objection from June Fender or bigalf/alcasfan... one from a twitter nemesis of mine (well objection is a little loose... it was a bit of a rant really) and one from a guy I have never heard of, but at least it was a structured objection.

Their details are public record for anyone really that interested, so I don't think we need to post them here.

Probably been mentioned hundreds of times before but just read on this on the planning website and wondering how big is the coldstore going to be?

and any idea what this means? The stadium requires a dual carriageway but the cold store only single, but this doesnt matter because the cold store isnt building all the roads for the development? confused..

It means the stadium isn't starting yet.. Until all the boxes are ticked and all the funding is in place is my guess

The proposed gross floor area is just short of 39,000 sq. m. So only another 21,000 sq. m could be built & occupied before the stadium build would be compelled to be built, until more of the site could then be developed. Equally, this does not necessarily mean that another 21k sq. m HAS to be built to trigger the stadium build.