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It is still going to be a distribution development... that is the sad irony of the current situation! The site specific LDF consultation has closed, Wakefield MDC strategic planners (different people to the planning officers) have recommended that the Newmarket site be recategorised as B8 employment land under the legal direction of the adopted and in force core strategy LDF. So the former Newmarket colliery site will in all probability be recategorised within the next 12 months, possibly even before the PI for the current scheme is concluded.
Now of course it is only the former Newmarket colliery site, which is around 35% of the current site proposal but is around 65% of the B8 development the remainder being the stadium, car park and MUGA.
So lets say Yorkcourt's appeal (PI) is turned down, if it is the chances the are that any future application would likely to have to be reduced in size just to cover the B8 area, probably including infrastructure... great, you think... but then start to think about it. So, no new road, at best a widening of the existing Newmarket Lane, which means HGV's directly passing their houses, which is not the case under the current proposals, so they still have a distribution park built around them but while the site is smaller, the impact on them is probably greater! The rest of the community loses out on the community sports facilities and Wakefield Collage loses out on a new home for it's sports and leisure students.
Be careful what you wish for....'"
The land classification is one of our opponents key arguments and like you said 35% of that argument will have crumbled away by the time the PI is over, hardly solid foundations for building your case on.
I think it's about time to show Mrs Fender and Co what the people of Wakefield can do when someone endangers our future. Watch this space.
Whoops... yes, they are going to make a big picture of TRB out of coloured tissue paper!
