Talks now include Balne lane according to Wakefield express, council to make recommendations by July.

Is there room down there for a stadium?

God knows but you have to ask this. If BV is now a prime bit of real estate which the council is unable to secure and develop then what does that ma Balne lane!

Nothing ever adds up with WMDC.

Exactly what I thought...

Racking my brains trying to think where it could go, perhaps over the road from the new (ish) housing estate. Massive patch of land there but I'm not sure how it would sit around the area.

Apparently the old playing fields, not used much anymore. I have been there and cannot think of the Access roads being up to it especially the motorway network. They are still looking at the belle view option also.

This is from a greenspace report released in 2016 by Wakefield Council

"Balne Lane Fields will be enhanced for recreation including a proposal to create sports fields to serve
Wakefield College. A master plan is required for this site."

Obviously this is only my interpretation but I don't see how if it's proposed to be suitable for Wakefield College how it can then be also suitable for a Super League standard stadium. I don't see it as feasible.

Another curve ball from WMDC!

Just had a look and YES it could work - ideal in many ways especially close to the town centre and the bus and train station.

If there was the drive and imagination then.... errr.... but and there is the rub - I can see the College being up for it and maybe even the club but the real driving force required that being WMDC then forget it. Every option they come up with seems to require more effort than the last which is totally at odds with the Councils lack of will displayed so far to make any of these plans happen!

Sorry but IMHO there is nothing to see here unless you believe in miracles and I no longer do

How many more pretend plans and meetings need to be drawn up

I guess the council have completely forgot about the Newmarket land now and thrown it to the likes of Yorkcourt to have their way with

Genuine political will is all that we need.
Sadly, with regards to Trinity, this has been totally lacking for all of my years supporting Trinity.
The Newmarket plan could still happen if the political will was there to drive it through but, it appears that what we have instead, is yet another white elephant, something that give the non RL public the impression that WMDC actually give a toss.
Should we even dare to mention funding for their new idea or is this just another fag packet idea ?

We are already on borrowed time and WMDC will know this.
They are happy to string us along, hoping that Trinity either fold or are relegated.

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... -1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... -1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf

There we go. The optimism didn't last long. Snout well and truly in the trough

If the council don't know by now where we can have a stadium then we're stuffed. I can't believe this
continued saga which has been going on for longer than two world wars.
We're talking about a simple (relatively!) sports stadium not a major shopping complex, that has now been going on for years and made WT the laughing stock of RL, and WMDC not far behind.

Tbf it's perfect location from town centre huge piece of land ,but access ?

Our first house was on Silcoates Park, at the far end of the playing field (Aspen Close), so I know the area well...

It is bordered by the Silcoates Park estate on one side, Peacock estate on another, the Leeds-London railway line on another and Balne Lane on the fourth side. The only access to the site would be from Balne Lane with it's single-file railway bridge !!
The only place to park would be on Peacock Estate !!!
Total and complete non-starter and as stated above yet another time-wasting red herring from the morons at WMDC and their associated cronies

Quote ="Khlav Kalash"https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/stadiums-plans-are-re-balne-1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf'" That piece from 2010 contains the following line: Quote But it emerged that a covenant placed on the land when it was sold to the council by a [size=150Mrs Mackie[/size 70 years earlier said the field must be retained for community use. Read more at: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835'" Any relation, do we think??? This just looks like one more delaying tactic by the council - announce something different again and then spend another few months assessing the viability before giving up on it and announcing something else.....

Quote ="Khlav Kalash"https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/stadiums-plans-are-re-balne-1-9208564 Cracking location in isolation, however access would be a real issue. No way is the road network geared up for any sort of crowd round there. I would say its worse than Belle Vue. I found this piece from back in 2010 which makes interesting reading (for those who are actually interested in this subject!): https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835 and this; Balne Lane Playing Fields (SF15): The site is allocated for Sports Facilities in the emerging Leisure, Recreation and Open Space Local Plan. Proposals include creating new rugby and football pitches and ancillary facilities for Wakefield College and wider community use. A Strategic Leisure Corridor through the site linking Thornes Park, Wrenthorpe Park and Alverthorpe Meadows will also be created. There is potential to develop other community sports facilities within the site and provide some ecological enhancements along Balne Beck. The Playing Pitch Strategy will include an assessment of sports pitch requirements. www.wakefield.gov.uk/Core%20docu ... 202016.pdf'" That piece from 2010 contains the following line: Quote But it emerged that a covenant placed on the land when it was sold to the council by a [size=150Mrs Mackie[/size 70 years earlier said the field must be retained for community use. Read more at: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... e-1-974835'" Any relation, do we think??? This just looks like one more delaying tactic by the council - announce something different again and then spend another few months assessing the viability before giving up on it and announcing something else.....

I see Walker's 'charitable' trust is still not registered, at least not that I can see.

I was cautiously optimistic before that bloaters name got mentioned. If he is any way involved, forget it !!!!

His involvement tells you all you need to know its another scam.

Yet again Peter Box poses on more land.

If he put as much effort into sorting out the stadium as he does having his photo taken I would be more than happy.

Then we hear that Rodney Walker is also very pleased with how things are shaping up but still hides behind a clandestine trust that lurks in the shadows.

When will our politicians clean up their acts and be more transparent. Their actions leave me in content of how they treat the citizens of Wakefield.

Thought we had told RW to bugger off

It's the perfect solution.

That is the perfect solution for a developer who needs to build a small, cheap community sports facility to cover an obligation, a college who wants a small, centrally based sports facility without over-streching itself financially and a current sports ground onwer who wants to fully redevelop said sports ground into something else entirely whilst also wanting to get a good deal on a piece of land in a public park owned by the aforementioned college. Not to mention a council who have been criticised over it's lack of sporting facilities removing it's burden of an over-grown piece of land that can only be used for community use. Wins all round.

Execpt for one party that is. Yep, the club. It is in no way suitable for development into a 10K capacity stadium, for starters the infrastructure just isn't there and neither is the capacity to increase it sufficiently. Also the locals would be less than impressed to say the least and would kick up a fair stink delaying the whole thing even further, something we cannot afford. Non- starter from our point of view but from a smaller development possibly which would finish us off, i wouldn't rule it out.

Would love to see a statement from the club, it's been a while. Even it is just to say we have not seen plans for the BV re-development yet and to confirm that this has been mentioned to them

No mate..if you look closely, Box's photo has just been superimposed over the top of it...I bet he doesn't even know where the field is as it's nowhere near Cas

Me too mate, but I have a funny feeling that the plans for the re-development of Belle Vue will not involve a rugby stadium !!