It looks like there was some good news in the LDF inspectors report for Castleford that needs reporting as well.

The Cas Tigers Wheldon Road site (N101) is still allocated to provide 105 houses in the housing plan tables, but representatives for Cas Tigers, Nestle & C6 (former Hicksons site) presented a successful case to have this following inserted in the LDF to provide flexibility to all special policy areas, with all these sites falling into the wider SPA N9.

[i91. The SPAs are substantial areas allocated for mixed-use development intended
to meet a significant proportion of the District’s housing and employment land
requirements, supported by ancillary or complementary uses. For clarity and
to provide necessary flexibility, (MM41) amends paragraph 8.2 of the Sites
Plan to inform that such ancillary or complementary uses could include the
provision of neighbourhood or district centres to accommodate ancillary retail,
leisure, education and community uses.[/i

This would mean that a retail application in any part of SPA N9 would not be in direct contravention of the plan and would be given due planning consideration within the SPA.

Oh thank you Inflatable_Armadillo,







what a joyous day

Of course Towns88, I shouldn't have been so presumptuous as to assume that you would not have spotted this yourself already! I apologise that this small piece of good news gets in the way of your current bitterness towards your neighbours potential progress.

The only progress the Rhinos are currently making is backwards. I have no bitterness towards that IA.

Cheers IA.

We could be moving towards the RFL nightmare scenario, where we both have grounds. Yorkcourt aren't going to pull out of ours, because it's just part of a bigger development, and you won't pull out of yours when you get the wonga. Two top grounds for the two top teams. Sick of the arrogance of those from outside the area who say we should share. No one tells Leigh to move into the DW, or asked Saints why they didn't move into Wigan, or Warrington into Widnes, etc. The geographies are the same.

Then what will the RFL do?

You've changed your tune Slugger since posting this :- viewtopic.php?f=2&t=511926&tsmp=1339488266&start=910 9th post down.

You've changed your tune Slugger since posting this :- viewtopic.php?f=2&t=511926&tsmp=1339488266&start=910 9th post down.

Cheers IA,

Can I ask 1 question, what is the biiger picture here with CT Nestle and the Hickson site all working together now.
Can anyone reveal the end game ??

Interestingly if for example Widnes, Cas, Salford, Bradford and Wakey in similar positions with compliant stadia, which I hope happens sincerely. The without a doubt financial operations and administration would be key factors and rightly so. Widnes were explicitly excluded on the basis of their admin entry once.

Who knows though really

Clutching at straws i think mdean, the RFL have said on numerous occasions that administration is not an issue in regards to licensing.
I think by the time the next lot of licenses are issued there may have been a few more clubs with the administrators knocking on the door anyway.
A lot of value is placed (by the RFL) on clubs moving up the license grading, something (with NM) we will undoubtebly do, you need to concentrate on GH (which i hope you get sorted) not straw clutching, or come the day it may well be Cas staring down the barrel!!

See and there I was trying to be balanced. I don't have to clutch at straws and a president was set on the exclusion of Widnes round before last......

I was actually more having a pop at bradfords debacle to be honest, artificially subsiding the business to a B license, spending the cap and not being able to support it. But your speed to jump to the defence says more about how you are feeling than me. I am not bothered genuinely.

Rank bad business planning and worthy of sanction when coupled with the RFL ground bail/buy out.

But the president was rebuked by the RFL in the last licence round, obviously because of the Crusaders issue, so what happened three years before that is of no matter, unless they change their mind of course!!!!
Everybody knows that the license system is a sham, the RFL will have known about Crusaders as they will have known about the Bulls, what is the only real issue for the RFL is that clubs are seen to be making progress (despite the documented problems at various clubs) and they are in up to date stadia, (the latter aids the former).
Unless there is a polar shift (or someone implodes) this is how i see it:
Wigan, Saints, Warrington, Leeds, Hudds, Hull, London, Catalan and Bulls all untouchable for various reasons, top clubs, beneficiaries, geography the birthplace of RL RFL own ground etc etc etc.
Widnes, Hull KR, Salford, Cas and Wakey are all vulnerable.
Widnes and Salford both have new grounds (although i think Salford may well be on the edge) if in a weeks time we get a nod then NM will help us fulfill license B and stadia criteria, that leaves Cas and Hull KR (who are also "rumoured" to have some problems, HKR that is) looking like sitting ducks.
There is a "rumour" that more than one may have to go and teams like Halifax, Leigh and Featherstone are all moving in the right direction, we should also not discount the possibillty of another French club.
Certain clubs are bullet proof (IMO the bulls are now one of them) so your only concern needs to be GH, it wasn't a dig or an attempt to jump to the defence of anyone, just a bit of pragmatism, and if you don't get it sorted you will be a sitting duck