I'm intending to stick my head round the door tomorrow, work schedule permitting.

Looking at the running order I would get there in the morning . There is only one witness and I suspect they intend to finish at lunch if not long after. statrs at 10

Jeez these guys bust a gut, i hope they don't over do it.

Half a day friday and they have saturday, sunday and monday off too!! you have got to admire the commitment dont you?

Its not hard to work out why this country is up the spout is it.

unless your from cas and you can get away with a clowns outfit

They probably have to spend some time examining the evidence that's been put forward too. They can't all be builders watching another bloke dig a hole.

Whats up with that I have monday to Friday off and then really enjoy my weekend

Me too.

Yes am sure, some of you do talk sense (now and again) however there is times I do think why am I reading about ruben wiki being linked to trinity for the 60th time in 5 years (am still waiting). My current dissertation is based on Wakefield supporters and their attitudes therefore I come on here now and again just to stimulate ideas of which I should be including.
Am a big wakey fan (gold membership collected today

), some of you will probably recognise me through Pete Oliver RIP, am his nephew.

Thanks for the info, I will be there just before ten tomorrow in support of the cause.

Good man

You jest, but most of my work over recent months has been with local authority 'officials' and I can say with certainty that almost to a man, they are more useless than you can possibly imagine.

There literally is no wonder the country is on its knees - it's run by numbskulls, dunderheads and dullards.

Bit miffed about Monday. Was going to make one in. Nice work if you can get it!

When Mr Stephens has sat for numerous days and finished recording all the facts from both sides. He then submits his documentation to the secretary of state for communities, Mr Eric Pickles. Mr Pickles then makes a decision, this decision will certainly be one of the biggest and most important decisions made in the clubs history. Should he choose to use the two letter word, no professional teams will exist in Wakefield for the public of Wakefield to follow in this great city of ours. Crime rates will soar current jobs will be lost as well as new,the national health bill will soar with all sorts of health issues connected with the loss of having something for our children and childrens children to aspire to. In reality it is DO or DIE.

Well I'm here.
I need a map to understand where the green belt boundary is!

The river Calder is the eastely boundry and the M1 motorway is the westery one. However there is only limited green belt land there. It is mainly old pit stacks and the area where the stadium is proposed is totaly pit stacks. Granted there is some agricultural land there but there is also a lot of derelict land. I have lived in that area for years and I have never seen any rare birds or animals, there are some foxes on there but nothing out of the ordinary.

What people are failing to grasp, I think, is that as a result of the new LDF and the landscaping works carried out by YCP there will be a NET GAIN of 1% in green belt land across the District.

Are they failing to grasp it Clan, or are they wilfully refusing to acknowledge it?

More the latter, as their whole argument is based around greenbelt, even though they don’t mind greenbelt elsewhere being built upon.

TBF the Yorkscourt stuff has no impact on the Green Belt - it is the addition of other sites in the distict, including colliery sites at Fryston / Wheldale, Frickley and Rabbit Ings (Monkton) that will see a nett increase in Green Belt.

This is 3-dimensional thinking all linked between the needs of the district, planning rules and the spaces available.

from the tweets it sounds like LCC are trying their damned hardest to stop this going ahead and clutching every possible straw. Sounds like there's more to it than their so called worries over green belt land

"Should he choose to use the two letter word, no professional teams will exist in Wakefield for the public of Wakefield to follow in this great city of ours. Crime rates will soar current jobs will be lost as well as new,the national health bill will soar with all sorts of health issues connected with the loss of having something for our children and childrens children to aspire to. In reality it is DO or DIE."

No it won't be that bad.

Even LCC must realise how weak their case is. It just sounds like they are objecting because it's the wrong side of the M62 for them. Politics or whatever their reasons, the fact they are willing to spend their tax payers money on trying to stop 2000 jobs being created outside of their district while chopping 600 jobs and cutting back on services must really be setting themselves up for the next elections.

You could tell their case is weak listening to them cross examine today.
He dotted around trying pick fault with John Francis statements and spent so much time on silly arguments with no point, they seem to just be picking fault to see if they can get a rise and a mistake.

Did the Inspector give any indication that he was aware of the weakness of their arguments and more importantly, did the YC rep do a good job in defence?