Has anyone else seen the Wakefield express article posted today about the section 106 agreement for the re development. I’m abit confused as I thought that whole agreement was specifically for the development of Belle vue so why do some councillors have issue with it? It questions the funding transferring to new owners. I thought the money was given to us to allow newcold to build on land. Do we have to pay that money back? And also the sum of money states 6million was put towards it when I thought it was more 8million given via the 106. Does anyone with more knowledge of it understand or can explain. Sorry I don’t know how to link the article on here

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... mp-4428604 This article?

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news ... mp-4428604 This article?

It's only saying they want assurances the money is protected.
I thought it was part of the deal already but Ellis just needs to legally say the club andvground will remain a rugby club.

Yes that’s the article. Is that all it’s getting at. I would have thought all the money getting spent on the ground would be the assurance that it remains a rugby ground. Just the way it read made it seem like we are liable for that money and it was more of a loan

A nothing article, councils often hold onto S106 fees they receive from developers which are for specific purposes, meaning the public lose out. Here we have the allocated S106 fees being correctly distributed and the council members are worrying about it. They have been used for the purpose they were requested, and it wasn't council money as such.

Here we go again ,If it is positive news the Wakefield Express do not want to know .When it is negitive news ,they blast it all over the paper. Can see why I do not buy papers any more

I think we all know by now that, for the last couple of decades, the Wakefield express hasn’t been the Wakefield express

I used to enjoy reading "Reports from the courts" to see if I could spot anyone I knew.

My dear old Grandad would get it to see who had died that week.

The Express is not much use for anything else.

Stopped buying it years ago, when it moved out of Wakefield. Its £1.70 for a little bit of local news, a load of generic 'filler' articles and pages of adverts...waste of money.

Was strange how they used to die in alphabetical order.

Badum tisch.

Not the same since it changed from a b&w broad sheet. The last time I looked there were pages and pages of adverts and puzzles with very little actual local news apart from a usual double page spread about what's going on at Pinderfields. As someone said , not even produced in Wakefield for years. The Trinity news all seemed to be gleaned from The League Express anyway.

Express Sport was local when Frank Jeffries was the long standing reporter. Young John Fieldhouse was the last local reporter I can recall. Both regulars, with other Express staff, in The Mitre on Southgate.

Steve Heptinstall took over from John Fieldhouse, Steve was an Eastmoor lad and was the last local sports reporter at the Express as far as I know

Good info. I lost touch with the Express lads when The Mitre got closed as part of the pre Ridings demolition. JF would get me in to some away games free on his Press card, if the gate people were easy going enough. Unbelievably a lot larder getting in that way than when Michael Hunte lent me his players pass when he travelled with the team.

I would like to know @ what stage if the council says it's their money is there a time limit ie, 3 or 5 yrs or
10 yrs.
What puzzles me is that 106 agreement was given by the vendor of York court to provide a ground etc to wakey T, & not to the council coffers for them to generally fill their coffers & distribute as owners of that money, yes legally they operate the 106 etc.
Further more, lot all the other 106 agreements for all specified things like roads, buildings & any other property, does that mean they monitor their money to those schemes & own them & control their value & use as they see fit, at what stage does control & ownership cease ?

Their job is to ensure the money collected from developers is used for the purpose it was intended, in this case funding for new facilities. It is not their money or investment.

The real story is why so much of these S106 payments has not been allocated for the purpose it was asked for?!

So are you saying we are been screwed again ?

It's Stuart Heptinstall fwiw, born on Portobello moved onto Eastmoor when he was about 4 year old, lived on park Lodge till he married a Stanley lass one of the rugby playing family the Lindley's,
Well known around Stanley, Stuart was well known Wakey councilor and deputy chairman and did his fair share trying to get trinity the new ground at Moorehouse.

Wakefield Trinity? Other than not getting what was originally promised, no. The wider public? Yes.

It was definitely Steve, Stuart is Steves dad and I'm pretty sure Stuart worked for NCB his whole career, not aware Stuart ever did any sport reporting - unless it was on the darts & dominoes in Primrose Hill WMC.

Nope, it was definitely Steve that worked as a sports reporter for the Express

Yes ,definitley was Steve, Stuart, his dad was a good mate of mine growing up on Eastmoor in the '50s and '60s. he lived a few doors up from me on Park Lodge Lane at the Parkhill pit end of Park Lodge Lane.
He worked at the colliery as an electrician if i remember correctly. He has been a councillor for years and years for the Eastmoor area and was Mayor of Wakefield a few years ago.