That was a crying shame that Caddick was able to keep YCCC at Headingley and both Wakefield as a city, and Yorkshire as a club, didn't get a stadium they deserved. The boost that would have given the area, I believe, would have made building a rugby stadium or two much, much easier.

I agree a sports village in the park was by far and away the best plan bit as always the council didn't have the brains/backbone to do it. I also wanted it on my doorstep can't understand the fuss for a bit of traffic on a maximum of 20 Sundays a year.

Not again!!!







Why do we always have to put up with a bunch of killjoys whenever this club is trying to move forward. What's this about a nature reserve planned for the old Newmarket Lane colliery site, eh? Bloody news to me! Honestly, I'm not been funny with the residents of that part of Stanley, but there other places in the Wakefield district where nature lovers can see all kinds of wildlife:



BRETTON COUNTRY PARK (NOT THE SCUPLTURE PARK)

PUGNEYS

WINTERSETT RESERVOIR

HEMSWORTH WATERPARK

NOSTELL PRIORY

NEWMILLERDAM

THE COUNTRYSIDE SURROUNDING HEATH COMMON AND WARMFIELD

ANYWHERE ON THE BANKS OF THE CALDER/HEBBLE CANAL



Adding to that for birdwatchers



HORBURY LAGOON

THORNES PARK

OR FAIRBURNINGS FOR THE REALLY DESPERATE.



We've already been rejected/let down by the council for a previous site and my father at his previous job at the council was sometimes able to gain access to the planning department and they have said that once we have a new ground, Belle Vue's going to be sold and turned into a housing estate, so developing what we have got at the moment is not an option at all.



So I urge all Trinity supporters to bombard the Wakefield Express/council in the coming weeks with letters pleading our case for the new ground that we need so desparately, because after all, this is not some off-the-cuff-hobby or eighty minutes worth of folly are even a shocking for of refundable-warranting violence as a dear "friend" of ours in Durkar believes it to be. This is part of Wakefield's culture, heritage and lifestyle we are talking about and without people who would like to see us move forward, all of it will disappear, forever. And do we really want to see our city become to outsiders a poor-relation suburb of Leeds (which we all know it definitely is not!) only famous for rhubarb, a crop originally associated with Mongolia and Siberia and a prison that houses some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals in the country and do we really want be known for that? Do we?!?!?!?!

I can understand why non-rugby people would be bothered if they live round there. I wouldn't want, for example, an ice hockey rink on a field behind my house.



Politically easier this time though. The Thornes area was more of a Tory hotspot, and so it gave the Conservatives a reason to object. Also, Thornes Park has more of an emotional pull for the city, as it is the city's park. A lot less people will be as bothered about the site of an old colliery by the motorway, and so politically less of a problem for all parties.

Why for the really desperate? fairburn ings is a great place for nature lovers.

Think he meant in terms of distance rather than the quality.

Ah fair enough.

There already is a nature reserve in Stanley





When you walk onto the area where the stadium is to be built there isn't a single house visible ... any that are nearby are completely concealed by trees. the new road being put in to bypass Newmarket Lane means that traffic will not be passing these properties either.



It is an ideal situation and if you can't get permission to develop there, where there is only a handful of neighbours, then I don't know how anyone would get permission to build anything anywhere!!

The location is also an ideal place for a camp and I would be suprised if they did not visit it from time to time.

In fairness to the people with the petition.

They live on a quiet country road with a few small terrace houses and a few large converted farm houses. They have views for miles.



When we build this stadium, a few 13+ times a year they will have a traffic jam outside their house and a big concrete structure to look at all year round.



Much as I want the stadium I can understand why they don't. The problem to them is there are only a few residents rather than 100s around the park so they are going to find it hard to be heard.



I hope they consider their houses in the design but if it was all down to my decision, they would lose out because I want a stadium and I'm biassed.

At the risk of lighting torch paper, that isn't full planning permission to my knowledge.

Please enlighten us all, what is full planning permission ?



Not trying to be clever, just interested.