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).

Quote Inflatable_Armadillo="Inflatable_Armadillo"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.'" Saw that but also found this: communities.gov.uk/planningandbu ... in-search/ Which shows 47 have been called-in/recovered. No idea if that's the ones that have been decided on this year.

Quote Inflatable_Armadillo="Inflatable_Armadillo"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.'" Saw that but also found this: communities.gov.uk/planningandbu ... in-search/ Which shows 47 have been called-in/recovered. No idea if that's the ones that have been decided on this year.

Here he is yet again picking out the negatives of the Newmarket development. Anyone comes on the Cas board and says something less than supportive of GH you call them a troll! Hypocrisy or what! Keep them straws in your clutches old boy!

What a load of crock, what's to settle the council unanimously voted for it. The councillors that have been democratically elected. Everything been evaluated it's called democracy it's how it works. Don't kid us by telling us you give a hoot about a bit of green belt on the edge of an old pit site. The real problem is that Glasshoughton has hit the rocks and the only chance Dickie has of getting some breathing space is if we fail. No surprise the latest delay will take Cas until after the SOS decision.

Congratulations for clearly not reading my post. Is that going to be your statutory response to anybody who dares reply to any thread about this subject? That was my objective and impartial view and has no allegiance whatsoever to any of the parties involved (or Cas).

That judgement is based solely on the decision and also the above document. If you actually bothered to read my post I said: a) That I don't agree with it - i.e. it shouldn't be called in; b) We all know the potential benefits of this proposal; and c) The fact that it won't get called in for the development itself, more location and the fact it's on greenbelt.

Would you not agree with those three fundamental points? For instance, do you think if this development was on brownbelt land that anybody would give a flying cluck-a-duck? Get off your bloody high pedestal and open your eyes for a change!

The Council did unanimously vote for it, you're right but doesn't stop it getting called in does it? If that was the case we would have a system in employment where every planning decision was made solely by the council on its own. And it isn't about me and my personal opinions on the environment or greenbelt - so congratulations for not reading the post again. And as for Cas, this has nothing to do with what I said and even if I did it's total rubbish.

You really need to slow down on your menstral cycle before you fall of and hurt yourself. I love how you started saying we couldn't fill a stand and then we had 3000 supporters and now 2500. You will find that you are in the minority the figures tell you that, 1000 objections and 16000 in support. It's been awhile since I left school but I still sure that 16000 is the bigger number. Oh and one last thing it's spelt Ridiculous with an 'I' not an 'E'. If you don't believe me look in the book with all the words and no story to it, you might know the one it's called a dictionary.

The smiling assassin strikes again, however clumsily.

I noticed there was a lull in the posts on here from our CLO's*, until things went quiet on the GH front and we got our OPP.