Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:14 am  

A month ago I wrote to MP Mary Creagh expressing my individual concern re: lack of progress with the Community Stadium Development.
To be fair to her she did contact the council and received a letter from Andrew Wallhead(Corporate director Regeneration and Economic growth), a copy of which she forwarded to me.
In it he goes through all the usual stuff about council supporting the 'Trust', acting as advisors, attending meetings etc etc.
He then goes on to concede the S106 imposes a positive obligation on the developers.
Then says the 'positive 'agreement is ' subject to timings of development and the economic climate at the time'.
Which of course may be never.
Which in my view means the council are doing nothing to accelerate developments.
Apologies to those who are obviously working their 'butts' off ' to push thing forward as you will be fully aware of the above.
Just wanted to let the council know as an individual I was not just lying down and letting things 'slither' away.
Perhaps, allied to the great work already going on, individuals bombarding MPs and council may help a little.

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:38 am  

milopolly wrote:

A month ago I wrote to MP Mary Creagh expressing my individual concern re: lack of progress with the Community Stadium Development.
To be fair to her she did contact the council and received a letter from Andrew Wallhead(Corporate director Regeneration and Economic growth), a copy of which she forwarded to me.
In it he goes through all the usual stuff about council supporting the 'Trust', acting as advisors, attending meetings etc etc.
He then goes on to concede the S106 imposes a positive obligation on the developers.
Then says the 'positive 'agreement is ' subject to timings of development and the economic climate at the time'.
Which of course may be never.
Which in my view means the council are doing nothing to accelerate developments.
Apologies to those who are obviously working their 'butts' off ' to push thing forward as you will be fully aware of the above.
Just wanted to let the council know as an individual I was not just lying down and letting things 'slither' away.
Perhaps, allied to the great work already going on, individuals bombarding MPs and council may help a little.

Thank you for that. We have received similar letters, but if you could e-mail them to us it would be helpful as we can cross reference the letter against others received.

My head is spinning right now with all this!!!

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:11 pm  

The article in the this week's WE does little to help; it totally fails to mention the developers obligation under the S106 agreement, or the loss of community sports facilities that their skulduggery represents; two important points that could have got the non WTW supporting public interested in the story.

I'm guessing that the WE ether didn't research it properly, or just weren't fussed enough about the story to do a decent job.

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:55 pm  

bren2k wrote:

The article in the this week's WE does little to help; it totally fails to mention the developers obligation under the S106 agreement, or the loss of community sports facilities that their skulduggery represents; two important points that could have got the non WTW supporting public interested in the story.

I'm guessing that the WE ether didn't research it properly, or just weren't fussed enough about the story to do a decent job.

The WE article was exactly what we did want. Not many understand the whole picture, but there wouldn't be much a need for a meeting if we just put it all in the paper first!

It should be a good evening, whatever it is we know by then!

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:58 pm  

As I now live 70 miles away from Wakefield I am still a life long supporter over 55years now
Will someone post an account of the public meeting on here please
Thanks in anticipation

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:42 am  

John Willy Higson wrote:

As I now live 70 miles away from Wakefield I am still a life long supporter over 55years now
Will someone post an account of the public meeting on here please
Thanks in anticipation

We are planning a live Twitter feed - @WTrinitySTrust

I'm sure someone will relay it onto here!

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:03 am  

cosmicat wrote:

Vastman stop being a bullyboy again let fans have their say .. Zip it.!!

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:48 pm  

This time on Wednesday night we will find out what's going on and how we will be going about getting a stadium for the City of Wakefield.

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:18 pm  

Just 24 hours from now we will have told the position the club is in regarding the Stadium.

This is a big night in the clubs history, maybe not THE most important, but certainly up there!

I hope we see plenty of old and new faces amongst the audience!

Re: Public Meeting Confirmed for 22nd April - Cats : Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:29 pm  

Two of us attending. Hope for an interesting evening.