If the new sports village is going to cost 20 million including a new stadium at no cost to the club, why would any company investing such a huge amount sit back and allow the club to possibly go into administration reducing our chances of a super league franchise.

Taking into account the running costs for a new stadium alone, surely logic dictates that the club playing in super league is more financially viable than a club playing in the lower tier.

Is there more going on here than we are aware of?

sorry not an option for me, too much use of the word "shabang" for my liking!!!

Significant in that we aren't signing one I take it.

If we get as far as the start of the season its going to be a long one.

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It will take an act of Parliament to reverse this and that is not going to happen in this parliamentary term and I doubt it will ever happen. Economic growth is still the key driver of the current Coalition plan to cut the state.

The officers are the same people, they have not changed, and unless the government gives them a significantly different steer on commercial development then the LDF will be signed and sealed by March 2012.

There is not a lack of land, Wakefield has more land than ever in modern history, just the plans for a very small part of it that is changing!

This is true but I don't think Yorkcourt will walk away from their current commitment on this site (which I expect is also covered by some legal looking bits of paper, if you know what I mean). Also, the planning committee is still made up of politicians and I bet planning permission would be harder to get if they tried!!! The bigger worry for me would be Yorkcourt walking away (which I still doubt) from the site full-stop and then leaving the site open for another developer to come in and just develop the site for B8.

It is minor to the work you have done and continue to do, but thank you, it means a lot to hear that from you.

As for our cyclist friend then all he needed was the 'correct' information to change his mind, which he did when he realised what the development was giving him and others in positives and very few negatives.

The guy from Methley Bridge was also much clearer on things and I think his overall opinion did change. We were talking about some exiting issues with Lafarge flouting (he says) an existing planning condition preventing them from using Watergate/Newmarket Lane and how a weight and physical width restriction might solve that problem and guarantee his only other worry, the accidental use of Watergate by HGV's to access the site. I fully support him on this and told him I would happily help longer term if Leeds or Wakefield did not make that a reality.