Wakefield Trinity • Re: New Stadium Updates

On planning permission, I was out on my daily walk on Sunday and walked along peel avenue (swan & signet to durkar road) where I came across a planning application notice for B8 warehousing, that estate/park has been small units and light commercial apart from the highways offices and police forensics office blocks, which are quite large. There has never been a drive to put warehousing on this site and has always been promoted as an office park to us locals. When I got home I checked out the application and was astounded to see that it was for 1 building, some 333,000 sqft which by any standards is massive, totally not in line with the rest of the development. So why isnt this type project being pushed to Newmarket that was set up for exactly this purpose (B8 warehousing) and would go some way to hitting that magic trigger point that was in the original agreement, the building construction costs are estimated as being in the region of £20m.
Surely this kind of development should be pushed to an area set aside for such operations and not dumped on the middle of a nature reserve, the actual site that the building will take up is 14.5 acres