Wakefield Trinity • Peter box
Slugger McBatt wrote:
One of the arguments at the time re green belt was that it was about to be taken out of green belt anyway. Further, if anyone is seriously arguing that Wakefield has been deprived of some meadow due to Yorkcourt's chicanery has lost the plot. It was an old field on the site of a former colliery by the M62.
Also, if anyone really believes that what was wanted was a community facility above else, again they are fooling themselves. Newmarket would have had no support at all if they had said we will build a community sports facility but Trinity can't play there.
It was what we always knew it was: a Wakefield stadium on a bit of scrap-land by the motorway, and the community element merely strengthened the argument. To suggest that anyone who achieves a Wakefield stadium fit for Super League is somehow complicit in Yorkcourt's chicanery is talking nonsense. Yorkcourt's chicanery is one thing. We want a stadium. If there is a way to get one, get one. Yorkcourt's conduct can be a matter for a different fight on a different day.
What would be madness would be to say that we should force Yorkcourt to comply and everything else should be sidelined.
As I remember it, the old colliery was brown belt land and that comprises of some of the Newmarket development and they also needed some of the farmer's fields that were the green belt bit that was taken out. Some of it was fairly unkept land, particularly where they've built the Coldstore, but not all of it is like that up there. I still ride there regularly and used to use the old pit to get from Moorhouse up towards Methley.
Statistics: Posted by Shifty Cat — Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:35 pm — Replies 138 — Views 11068