This getting to be like drawing teeth now

he's been boring me crapless for days now

Ah well, I've tried to ignore the childish insults from those less able, but as Ian's the Captain of team thicko it looks like his crap's been leaking out onto the board for a while.

I don't find it much of a surprise to see people reading and posting on a thread they find dull.

That'll be the Costello that was passed over as a Council option as it wouldn't get planning permission would it? Some over there, eh?

FFS, talk about being a stuck record. No wonder the kids are getting bored.

I refer you back to the other replies that point out you're looking at it back to front.

Why? Do you feel things will have changed?

If you mean a couple of years ago, probably not. If you're talking about a decade or more, and since then the council, who grant planning consent, have offered it with consent for sporting activities, then definitely yes. Planning policy and consent considerations and decisions do change over time in line with alternative options and new developments.

You appear to have cloth ears at either side of your jam jar spectacles.

The meeting was not just Geraghty and Allam. I'm still waiting, over a week later, for your acknowledgement that, in fact, the council were more than represented - by experts - when I posted this last Friday and Cllr Bayes. Also present were three "vastly experienced" officers who are currently negotiating the Siemens deal.

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Policy may change, but it's a slow and dependent on the strategy. If you're claiming the circumstance have changed and things such as the potential traffic problems have been resolved, I'd be interested to read them.

You've still not answered my question. I assume you are saying that 10+ years ago, there were planning (mainly traffic) reasons why a stadium for all the city's professional clubs couldn't be sited at Costello. This is an irrelevance now because City and FC play at the KC . The council offered Mr Allam Costello for his Sporting Village, not for the relocation of the KC. Mr Allam wants to provide sporting facilities of an ice rink, swimming pool and squash courts to the city as a gift. The council have offered him Costello as a venue. The traffic issue for a Sporting Village would be far far less than for a stadium housing both professional clubs, surely that's obvious?