Is it true that due to the fact the council plan to put a traveller camp in Ossett failed that it may now be sited at Newmarket ?

Is that a rumour rumour or a dead cert truth rumour

My parents were speaking this week with relatives who are right next door/adjoining the site. They were saying that gypsies take up residence on the site on a very regular basis, so sounds like a 'goer' if the development fails.

They said they have not objected to the development by the way, and unlike the rest of the nimbys they have open views of the site and all traffic passing the end of their drive.

well if Newmarket does fail i for one will support our travelling friends move there i will even help them move in. careful what you wish for Fender.

@feline

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.

Is that some kind of art installation?

Whoops... yes, they are going to make a big picture of TRB out of coloured tissue paper!

I'm sure I can dig out an old primary school photograph of him that they could use !!!!!