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| Quote ="newgroundb4cas"Wakefield stadium action group great idea. Forget the nimby pimbys who walk on that land once a year but yet don't want to see change .'"
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It is a great idea, and whilst I've talked this one through with our scaly friend, it is his idea and it is best for us not to get involved this time.
This could be quite a significant event though and we would encourage anyone who qualifies as being local to get along and show your support!
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| Quote ="newgroundb4cas"Wakefield stadium action group great idea. Forget the nimby pimbys who walk on that land once a year but yet don't want to see change .'"
I think that idea has already been used!
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| Thanks everyone for PM's so far, we have already got quite a good group and certainly location wise (in relation to the development) we appear to be doing well.
I have slept on the issue of timing and politicians and think we should keep up the momentum and aim to get this in the Wakefield Express as soon as possible. Now, we do have a slight issue with trying to get into the 7th May edition of the Wakefield Express as Emma Hakier, who has reported on the stadium issues to date, is away on Holiday this week and does not get back till Monday (3rd May).
As such, I am currently thinking that we will be better just holding off a week and aiming to get it in the May 14th edition which, given it will be the first edition that the Express will be able to carry local reaction and stories to the general election, could be a high selling issue. It also means that if I invite the politicians to a photo call after the 6th May, they might actually decide to turn up!
So, current plan is try and arrange the photo-call for early evening (6pm-7pm ish) on Monday 10th May.
THIS IS JUST A PLAN AT THE MOMENT.
I will get in touch with Emma on Monday morning and then hopefully I will give everyone plenty of notice of the final arrangements.
I will be inviting the YEP and also possibly Ridings FM and Real Radio as well, but the Wakefield Express is most critical, so once we have them sorted the others can turn up to suit this arranged date and time.
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| So we need to keep this thing moving, who do you know in the area, give them a call, ask if they will be part of this and to get in touch?
We need as many locals as possible, lets show everyone, the Council and the Government (whom ever that might be) that there are plenty of locals who support this development!
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| Lofthouse any good?
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| Quote ="Outwood Vic"Lofthouse any good?'"
Thinking about this yes, I think we should include Outwood and Lofthouse and as long as we actually have some people from Moorhouse, Bottomboat, Stanley, Methley etc (which we do I am really pleased to say! )
I don't want to extend it further than that though!
Certainly, much of Outwood and Lofthouse is closer to J30 of the M62 than J41 of the M1, so actually this could be a good gauge of whether you should get involved?
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| I'll pm you IA.
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| Hi,
As you'll see from my username in live in Ouzlewell Green and support both the club and development
We've had allsorts of rubbish from the 'against mob' pushed through out door including a letter from Leeds MDC.
Time we turned the tables
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| Quote ="Ouzlewell Cat"Hi,
As you'll see from my username in live in Ouzlewell Green and support both the club and development
We've had allsorts of rubbish from the 'against mob' pushed through out door including a letter from Leeds MDC.
Time we turned the tables'"
You up for being in the group photograph when we get details? I don't have an Ouzlewell Green resident yet?
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| I've forwarded my details and am happy to be in the photo with my wakey shirt on. I am a Methley resident and would bring my girlfriend and sister ( also a Methley resident) and I hope we get a good turnout. If possible please try and make it before the 13th as i am travelling to Australia for business. I also return home from work around 5.45 but could make it slightly earlier if needed.
This is an excellent idea and I hope this turns out to be a front page story in the express.
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| Probably better without the Wakey shirt .. just a resident of Methley
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| Ok, no shirt it is.
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| I live in Ossett so i guess that rules me out but if i can help in any other way i will.
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| [url=http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/1231514_town_hall_to_pay_25m_for_salford_reds_groundThey'll get by with a little help from their friends[/url
Nice to know that in a little corner of England,sport is appreciated.
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| Firstly, many, many thanks to all the local residents that have been in touch and have volunteered to publicly support the development and agreed to be in a photograph to hopefully accompany a piece in the local media.
I spoke to the Wakefield Express last Tuesday and they have back-tracked slightly about a pro-residents story! They DO want to run the story but not until there is a reason (in their eyes) to run it! So maybe another a development in the story, near to the planning meeting itself etc. It is a little disappointing but it is yes, but when they say yes unfortunately! They have said they will be in touch, but I will be keeping in touch with them and hope to get this moving very, very soon.
I have also spoken to both Gleadhills Butchers and Des of Kev's Fish & Chip shop in Stanley and they have bot agreed to distribute a flyer telling people about the photo, as and when of course, we know it is going to happen!
I am not going to let this drop and I would kindly ask you all to bear with me while I endeavour to get things moving.
Watch this space!
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| After only reading negative stories about the Stadium and development,I'm a bit surprised why they won't put this story in now especially since the news of the sports and outdoor training facilities etc last week would be a good follow up and a counter story to the negative NIMBY angle.Obviously from our point of view we want to show that there are people living close to the development who are behind it and if they leave this story till the planning announcement it will be some what of a side story rather than being the main story like you planned.
I would like to thank you on the effort your putting in to this Inflatable_Armadillo it is really great to see.
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| Quote ="Shifty Cat"After only reading negative stories about the Stadium and development,I'm a bit surprised why they won't put this story in now especially since the news of the sports Centre and outdoor training facilities etc last week would be a good follow up and a counter story to the negative NIMBY angle.Obviously from our point of view we want to show that there are people living close to the development who are behind it and if they leave this story till the planning announcement it will be some what of a side story rather than being the main story like you planned.
I would like to thank you on the effort your putting in to this Inflatable_Armadillo it is really great to see.'"
Absolutely agree. Shame on the WE, hardly allowing a balanced view on the subject are they? They must have had numerous negative stories in, but won't allow a positive one at the time when it is most appropriate. Clearly the right time is now as it puts across a counter argument to the NIMBY's and lets the readers see both perspectives.
Again, thanks for your continued efforts IA
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| Quote ="Inflatable_Armadillo"Firstly, many, many thanks to all the local residents that have been in touch and have volunteered to publicly support the development and agreed to be in a photograph to hopefully accompany a piece in the local media.
I spoke to the Wakefield Express last Tuesday and they have back-tracked slightly about a pro-residents story! They DO want to run the story but not until there is a reason (in their eyes) to run it! So maybe another a development in the story, near to the planning meeting itself etc. It is a little disappointing but it is yes, but when they say yes unfortunately! They have said they will be in touch, but I will be keeping in touch with them and hope to get this moving very, very soon.
I have also spoken to both Gleadhills Butchers and Des of Kev's Fish & Chip shop in Stanley and they have bot agreed to distribute a flyer telling people about the photo, as and when of course, we know it is going to happen!
I am not going to let this drop and I would kindly ask you all to bear with me while I endeavour to get things moving.
Watch this space!'"
Should we be emailing the editor to ask the question why they are not prepared to run a story on the developments that were announced the other week at this moment in time? After all this will benefit the whole community and can only be a good thing. The good people of Wakefield deserve to know what this venture will bring and could significantly improve their quality of life!! The news may help persuade some folk who are not quite sure!
It makes my blood boil when folk prevent people hearing both sides of the story!!
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| Quote ="Jambon"=#BF0040Should we be emailing the editor to ask the question why they are not prepared to run a story on the developments that were announced the other week at this moment in time? After all this will benefit the whole community and can only be a good thing. The good people of Wakefield deserve to know what this venture will bring and could significantly improve their quality of life!! The news may help persuade some folk who are not quite sure!
It makes my blood boil when folk prevent people hearing both sides of the story!!'"
They covered it on the day - but it was hardly a ringing endorsement.
Yes - it would be worth getting in touch with the paper and asking why they won't cover this story!
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Hi everyone
I dropped off a copy of the latest flyer and letter doing the rounds ( www.wakefieldangryresidents.com) at the Wakefield Express office yesterday (I didn't make a special trip, I was having my eyes tested at Boots next door anyway) but unfortunately Emma was not in. I have just spoken to her on the phone, she thanked me for dropping off the information and she has had another word with the News Editor about running a story. They are still very interested and probably will run the story, but not until there is another development to run this story alongside/in response to, or maybe the week prior to the planning meeting, once a date has been confirmed.
I certainly hoped that they would run this story sooner rather than later and I know many of you did too, but she does think they will run it at some point so did kindly ask you all to please bear with them on this. In some ways a story just the week prior to the planning meeting could be more valuable and have just as bigger, if not bigger impact!
In the mean time I know that TRB was going to be ensuring that the local politicians where aware that this latest flyer, and new faux group W.A.R, was exactly the same very small group of people creating yet another vehicle to scaremonger and upset as many people as possible by spreading half-truths, and in most cases, blatant lies. Top bloke old TRB!
Emma did ask people to write to the letters page and not only express their support for the development but also to de-bunk these two so called groups. I am hopefully going to put a letter together and get that sent in this week, being careful not to name names but make it clear that this is just a small group of residents whose only interest is stopping the development at all cost because they don't want it near them, pure NIMBY's!
Oh, I have also tracked down Mr Cliff Carl of Moorhouse, who wrote the letter to the express a couple of weeks ago! He lives as close to the possible development as it is gets without being a resident on Newmarket Lane. He is on-board and is going to start to let people know who W.A.R really are and find other people on Moorhouse who are in favour of the development. That means we have valuable allies in Bottomboat (thanks to Catwoman1) and now Moorhouse.
It should also be noted, for those of you that have not seen the latest W.A.R flyer, that they have now dropped the tactic of supporting the development of the stadium and just opposing the associated development and are all out against the whole thing! I told you it was a tactic and that is clear now given nothing has changed but they seem to have changed their minds!!! How strange!!! They are talking about all the cars parking around the streets on match days, they are even saying they have contacted Metro and they have said they are NOT going to be running buses on match days (which we all know is rubbish, plus I know that Arriva are certainly planning to look at running match day special buses form the bus station and also, I suspect, will already be talking to the council about the providing the park-and-ride service).
So if anyone tell you that these people are happy for the stadium to go there (as many have said to me), please tell them that no longer is the case, and they have bizarrely changed their minds about that now!!!
I am going to be away now for a couple of weeks from this Saturday, having a nice holiday with my wife and our little boy and partaking in one of my other loves, diving (well, as often as I am allowed to sneak off the odd morning). I will have my iphone with me, so if anything urgent comes up I will post it, otherwise I will post upon my return with any future developments!
Finally, keep writing letters of support to planning, or post on the planning portal. As the nice men from W.A.R points out, you can write letters from all members of your household, including Children, so get one penned quickly (they must be slightly different to count as more than one) on behalf of the spouse and then one for each of the kids... but not the dog, cat or hamster! Domestic pets don't count!
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I dropped off a copy of the latest flyer and letter doing the rounds ( www.wakefieldangryresidents.com) at the Wakefield Express office yesterday (I didn't make a special trip, I was having my eyes tested at Boots next door anyway) but unfortunately Emma was not in. I have just spoken to her on the phone, she thanked me for dropping off the information and she has had another word with the News Editor about running a story. They are still very interested and probably will run the story, but not until there is another development to run this story alongside/in response to, or maybe the week prior to the planning meeting, once a date has been confirmed.
I certainly hoped that they would run this story sooner rather than later and I know many of you did too, but she does think they will run it at some point so did kindly ask you all to please bear with them on this. In some ways a story just the week prior to the planning meeting could be more valuable and have just as bigger, if not bigger impact!
In the mean time I know that TRB was going to be ensuring that the local politicians where aware that this latest flyer, and new faux group W.A.R, was exactly the same very small group of people creating yet another vehicle to scaremonger and upset as many people as possible by spreading half-truths, and in most cases, blatant lies. Top bloke old TRB!
Emma did ask people to write to the letters page and not only express their support for the development but also to de-bunk these two so called groups. I am hopefully going to put a letter together and get that sent in this week, being careful not to name names but make it clear that this is just a small group of residents whose only interest is stopping the development at all cost because they don't want it near them, pure NIMBY's!
Oh, I have also tracked down Mr Cliff Carl of Moorhouse, who wrote the letter to the express a couple of weeks ago! He lives as close to the possible development as it is gets without being a resident on Newmarket Lane. He is on-board and is going to start to let people know who W.A.R really are and find other people on Moorhouse who are in favour of the development. That means we have valuable allies in Bottomboat (thanks to Catwoman1) and now Moorhouse.
It should also be noted, for those of you that have not seen the latest W.A.R flyer, that they have now dropped the tactic of supporting the development of the stadium and just opposing the associated development and are all out against the whole thing! I told you it was a tactic and that is clear now given nothing has changed but they seem to have changed their minds!!! How strange!!! They are talking about all the cars parking around the streets on match days, they are even saying they have contacted Metro and they have said they are NOT going to be running buses on match days (which we all know is rubbish, plus I know that Arriva are certainly planning to look at running match day special buses form the bus station and also, I suspect, will already be talking to the council about the providing the park-and-ride service).
So if anyone tell you that these people are happy for the stadium to go there (as many have said to me), please tell them that no longer is the case, and they have bizarrely changed their minds about that now!!!
I am going to be away now for a couple of weeks from this Saturday, having a nice holiday with my wife and our little boy and partaking in one of my other loves, diving (well, as often as I am allowed to sneak off the odd morning). I will have my iphone with me, so if anything urgent comes up I will post it, otherwise I will post upon my return with any future developments!
Finally, keep writing letters of support to planning, or post on the planning portal. As the nice men from W.A.R points out, you can write letters from all members of your household, including Children, so get one penned quickly (they must be slightly different to count as more than one) on behalf of the spouse and then one for each of the kids... but not the dog, cat or hamster! Domestic pets don't count!
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| It’s a shame all those photocopied letters with a hand written address and name only count as one objection, no really.
With respect to the WE, they didn’t exactly need to wait for a development to publish the story of the objectors. A very strange response from them.
Still we’re very much in debt to your efforts, hopefully it will have been worth it come June!!!!!
Have a good holiday.
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| Quote ="Khlav Kalash"It’s a shame all those photocopied letters with a hand written address and name only count as one objection, no really.
With respect to the WE, they didn’t exactly need to wait for a development to publish the story of the objectors. A very strange response from them.
Still we’re very much in debt to your efforts, hopefully it will have been worth it come June!!!!!
Have a good holiday.'"
Cheers, I certainly will!
All - Just thought you might like to see this - [urlhttp://ow.ly/1JBZl[/url
Wakefield First have just Tweeted this story out.
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| If I were James Elston, I'd be looking for a pow-wow with the top bod at the WE sooner rather than later, to try to find out why they have such an ambivalent attitude to their City's only professional sports team. Surely some work can be done to redress the relationship and get both organisations working for each others benefit? The stadium development brings it in to focus, but I'm talking more generally too - they don't seem to give a t0ss.
The general lack of interest, enthusiasm or pride in the club in key areas of the City is astounding; the WE, WMDC, the PCT, the LEA - there are some great partnership opportunities there that just don't seem to be firing. It's very frustrating.
Rant over - thanks for all your hard work on this IA; you're something of a marvel.
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| Quote ="bren2k"If I were James Elston, I'd be looking for a pow-wow with the top bod at the WE sooner rather than later, to try to find out why they have such an ambivalent attitude to their City's only professional sports team. Surely some work can be done to redress the relationship and get both organisations working for each others benefit? The stadium development brings it in to focus, but I'm talking more generally too - they don't seem to give a t0ss.
The general lack of interest, enthusiasm or pride in the club in key areas of the City is astounding; the WE, WMDC, the PCT, the LEA - there are some great partnership opportunities there that just don't seem to be firing. It's very frustrating.
Rant over - thanks for all your hard work on this IA; you're something of a marvel.
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I do like your enthusiasm for the job - but there is a constant dialogue with the WE and we seem to go along nicely for a while and then - bump! we come back down to earth.
They have generally been a lot more positive of late and it is for the club to ensure that the WE are left with the clear impression that they are better off with us than against us!
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