For someone who followed ice hockey back in the day, the 'Leeds Arena' always amuses me. Leeds United spent £250k on rights to a franchise for their Superleague from the Sheffield Steelers then add on to that the other costs of designs and staff hired for something never built!

If anyone outside scuppers this development, it will be a very sad day...unless Leeds City Council are going to create thousands of jobs on the doorsteps of WMDC residents.

Maybe so but if Flanshaw is a slum then what is Tingley estate?! And what have you got really? Morley sports centre?
Wakefield sporting facilities are a complete disgrace and those who have presided over it should be shot under the White/Lewis one strike and you're out rule

And no-one denies that the lack of a proper swimming pool in the City itself is a disgrace....however, Thornes Park is a good facility, Lightwaves has its uses so it could be worse! Where's the Olympic size pool in the centre of Leeds? Or did they knock that facility down and not, erm, rebuild it?

you could pick the worse house on the worse street in the worse estate in the entire city of wakefield and without any problem i will find 20 worse than that in leeds.

leeds the only place i know where you have to pay to leave a bus station

Their objection is available to view on planning site now

On what grounds have LCC got complaints? The location of the development is not even within their authoritive boundaries so they should keep their snooping no well away from our business.