I think Peel holdings own the land to the left driving in to Wakefield from the motorway . IM sure I saw some planning application for some holiday homes in the land between Pugneys and Asda. You also have the fielda known as the cowies behind st Georges church and spreading up to the bend in the road, that's always been brush land. Opposite the Pugneys driving from asda before the round a bout you have a large area of land that quite often holds camping club events.
The lake and surrounding area I feel sures owned by WMDC . The council should look at developing the whole area and providing a fscility to be proud of, it would be interesting to know how much money the council have made since it introduced the car parking charges a few years back
Thinking about it if you contiue driving with pugneys on your right towards wakefield you also have a large chunk of land before you reach the bridge on your right hand side.

This is the crucial bit though and when that point comes around then everyone needs to object and there needs to be an insistence on a watertight s106 that guarantees the stadium is built BEFORE Yorkcourt get to do anything. It has been discussed before and the Council are quite able to borrow the money to make it happen and claim it back from Yorkcourt once they make their money IF THEY SO DESIRE and that is where the problem is.

There are a couple of issues with Pugneys. The main one is that it is a flood prevention scheme. You may notice that there are banks all around and that as you go into the car park the road goes over a mound. The fields to the Wakefield side of Pugneys have a path which is on top of a banking. The basic idea is that if there is a danger from the Calder of Wakefield being severely flooded then Pugneys and the fields can be flooded and the waters contained until the river goes down. I can't see the Environment Agency allowing anything to disrupt that scheme.

The fields at the other side of Asdale Road are part of a farm and when the weather is bad they flood as well so there would have to be a lot of drainage work put in as well as the cost of the land itself. I do wonder why it hasn't been sold for building land before now but whatever the reason it would apply to building a stadium.

Pugneys has a nature reserve and I guess there would be an outcry from interested parties if any development was proposed.

Not long ago Marks & Spencer were going to build next to Asda and it was rejected by the council on the grounds of traffic problems even though M&S were going to pay for road widening and changes.

Sorry to be a wet blanket but I reckon it's a non-starter

https://twitter.com/WakefieldTrust/stat ... 33573?s=20 Sounds like it's a Walker run story to feed his own ego.

https://twitter.com/WakefieldTrust/stat ... 33573?s=20 Sounds like it's a Walker run story to feed his own ego.

20 odd years ago the council bods visited my mums and the neighbours on stand bridge lane with plans for a huge housing development on the fields between standbridge lane and durkar low lane ,a huge expanse .Dont know why those plans were scrapped but they will be somewhere in the councils archives .
Enough room for a stadium and parking ,as I remember access was going to be from standbridge lane as well as durkar low lane before asdale road was around .

Shouldn't that read deep in the abyss, that is deep in the council's archives.

Would probably have been in a good location too.

Ironically, too, close to a site that was earmarked in the late 90s to also stage international cricket

Let’s be clear about one thing, the Wakefield area is land rich - we are not London or even Leeds. The new by-pass alone has freed up tonnes of land much of it only meters away from BV.

This has nothing to do with a site and everything to do with greed and a lack of will. Box could easily make this happen but he won’t it’s all ego.

Totally agree with all this. If the will was there from the council there are a fair few viable sites in particular the new Eastern Relief Road.
Yet again it's all stalling tactics.

The question is why is p box and wmdc doing this.

£££££££££££££££££££££££££

WMDC probably have no intention of building a public sports facility . It does not consider the public of wakefield, it does not consider health issues and does not seem to consider what benefits could be achieved by such a development.

Remember the sun lane baths, we must have been the only City in the UK not to have a swimming baths available within the city. How long did it take to buld the new baths after demolishing the old. How much money did the council make from the car park built after the old baths were demolished.
Just what does the council do with the 1.5 million made clear profit from its car park operation. 2014.

I thought I'd read somewhere that all the land round the eastern link road was taken up by developers for housing, the income from selling all this land to developers went directly into the building of the bypass.

Funnily enough , 88M and Yorkcourt will be getting deals from the council to develop on the Eastern ring road and at the college ... you simply could not make up how bent, corrupt and incompetent this whole sorry mess is.

Just been reading that ,houses and flats ,house ,hotel ,doctors surgery are to be built on weldon road. Even the old Hickson and Welch is going to be developed .Not against this ,but its just going to add value to land that the tigers own .All we ask is give the people of Wakefield what they have been promised .

I don't know if they've moved the posts but when Nestle closed down they said nothing could be built on that site as it was a flood risk.

That site as been passed for development as well, completion date is 2021.Box can do what he wants it seems .

Many people think Putin is the ultimate dictator and the worlds expert in total power and control.

Box makes him look like an amateur. For a democratic society to allow someone like box be in unquestioned power for so long is incredible. Other than the grim reaper, there is no one out there who can remove him.

To be fair I drove through Cas for the first time in a while yesterday and if anywhere is need of investment it's that place. I know Wakefield is looking tired, particularly Kirkgate, but Cas is depressing.

Doesn't take away from the point of council priorities, and Boxs' dictatorship.

Fingers crossed, eh?

After all these years, do people really believe a Stadium, be it a stand alone one for Wakefield Trinity alone or a Community Stadium will ever be built ? The biggest chance of it happening which was supposed to be nailed on was Newmarket. We all know what happened there. There’s zero desire from anyone in the right places to make it happen, so what’s changed ? Another proposed plot of land ? This has gone on for years and it’ll keep on happening until everyone get tired and throws the towel in. Happy days.

I 100% agree with you and you make a good point regarding the land.

The ego problem isn’t exclusive to Box though

Think it's more of an agenda against the club than hie ego.

I don't know if this is related but a company was drilling on balne lane field in several locations they were there around a week. It's where I walk the dog also at the same time there was one of them ropes things on balne lane itself just near the entrance to the field.th ropes that count traffic

I was at the Civic Centre in Cas this week and have to agree Cas is woefully starved of investment. Wakefield council are full of false promises to all its residents. I despair at the decline in the whole of the Wakefield five towns in the last 20 years. The only good thing in Wakefield now is its bar and restaurant scene which is brilliant all due to the hard work of local entrepreneurs. Box clearly has no vision for the city and should have stepped down a long time ago. Still milking the system at 71 years of age says it all.

They've discovered oil