Do you watch the news?

"Last year, around 4,800 people were estimated to be sleeping rough in England. This is 15% higher than in 2016, and more than double the estimate of 1,800 for 2010."

I make no comment on the public policy landscape that underpins these figures, for fear of triggering those people who don't like real life things to impinge on their enjoyment of this forum.

The title of the topic is 'Stadium', not 'Social Issues'. If I wish to discuss the latter I will post on the appropriate forum.

I wonder if we had kept the same thread all of these years for the stadium fiasco if we would have beaten the post count on the famous "For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!!" on the Leeds board.

I think the longest running thread I remember was 'CHRIS JOYNT VOLUNTARY TACKLE' got well into low hundreds.


However if we had kept the very first stadium post going and not kept starting up new ones we would have created a monster thread of many thousands of pages. Not only that the way the council still continue to dick us around I would say there are still thousands of stadium posts waiting to happen.

Chris Joynt incident is going back a few years



Like you a few more thousand posts due on the stadium issue.

Maybe they're still here
Pop Tart has nothing else to do...rofl.... mebbe he could do a chronological stitch and merge job

on the other hand, I don't think this forum could handle a depression thread of that magnitude......and there probably isn't enough ones and naughts available on vBulletin.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2018/08/20/yo ... iked-city/ O/T but another feather in Peter Box's cap? Wakefield ranked 54th out of 57 UK Cities.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2018/08/20/yo ... iked-city/ O/T but another feather in Peter Box's cap? Wakefield ranked 54th out of 57 UK Cities.

Think we all knew Wakeys not great, but certainly better than Bradford.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this already but i have just stumbled across an new planning application at Newmarket around the back of Newcold for ANOTHER large warehouse.

Ref: 18/01169/FUL | Erection of warehouse unit (Bicon_cool.gif with associated access, service yard, parking, drainage infrastructure and landscaping | Plot 7A Newmarket Lane Stanley Wakefield WF3 4BU

Unsurprisingly the Client is Yorkcourt!

Here we go again...

Wow
Yet more than evidence of how crap box actually is

I think it's more evidence how crap Wakefield City is. By inference it shows how clever Box is.

Maybe it might atleast contribute to the stadium 'trigger point' they've been actively trying to avoid

Council will let them build regardless until there's no land left at Newmarket

The plans say the footprint of the warehouse will be just over 60000 square feet. Can anyone remember the trigger point? Although looking at the proposed location, i think it will be outside of the original planning app.

60000m2 is the magic number, however WMDC have colluded with the developer to set a precedence so there is no reason why they wouldn't do so again.

If WMDC do it they really do show their true colours. Wouldn't surprise me with Box in charge.

Shall we just rename Wakefield to Warehousefield?????

Went to Hull on Monday......saw it
Went to Normanton today.....saw it
What an utter ****** carbuncle that ****** thing is
great deal that was, Box does a deal to build it on green belt, and in return...the people of Wakefield get.......
....to look at it

******* marvelous, what a t055er

This is 100% what will happen.

Whatever happened to nothing can happen to "dis aggregate" the scheme, a word that I've only ever heard in relation to the Newmarket planning application, notwithstanding the fact that the Newcold unit seemed to circumvent everything, albeit there was some "doubt" that the Community Trust agreed to it being excluded.

Once could be a mistake but, a second planning application would be willful and would ask some severe questions of both WMDC and the planning process.

Which they've amply demonstrated they don't feel compelled or required to answer; YCP will not, under any circumstances, build a stadium at NM - it's a dead duck.

What happened to all the objections on the other application? I guess the council will just hide behind the guise of more jobs etc. for the district if they accept another application.

IIRC at the time, WMDC said that one or more members of the Trust had been informed that Newcold would not count towards the trigger point (although there was no written evidence of this).
Since this time, Newcold has been substantially extended and now there is a new application for an additional unit.

As I said, NOBODY can deny knowledge of the criteria around the Newmarket development and the implications of any new/additional plans that would impact on the site.

As regards a community stadium at Newmarket, or anywhere else, I agree with you and it looks less likley now than at any time since the original inquiry.

To put this into perspective, in roughly 6 months time it's 10 years since the original NM application went in.

I recall the public consultation at the time and being so hopeful. August 2009 was the date I was given when I asked when the stadium build would start.

10 years bloody years and not one brick layed embarrassing