Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:19 pm  

Jizzer wrote:

I know this has been done to death on this thread and others, but how York Court can back out of the agreement yet still get their end of the bargain absolutely stinks I'd almost forgot about the whole fiasco, now it's riled me again ha

This

The "deal" was portrayed as a 100% certainty, with the only questions being about completion dates etc.
I know its not going to happen but, they ought to put a stop to the whole bloody lot and prevent any of the commercial development, until
the stadium is Guaranteed.
It is beyond belief that there can be ANY loopholes which can allow the development to take place without the Stadium

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:22 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

This

The "deal" was portrayed as a 100% certainty, with the only questions being about completion dates etc.
I know its not going to happen but, they ought to put a stop to the whole bloody lot and prevent any of the commercial development, until
the stadium is Guaranteed.
It is beyond belief that there can be ANY loopholes which can allow the development to take place without the Stadium

Well believe it because there is.

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:01 pm  

Colin Mackie turns out to be cleverer than HM Inspector, the legal dept of WMDC *and* the legendary Sir Rodney Walker; who'da thunk it?

Fair play to him - amoral weasel he may be, and although money doesn't buy happiness, it's a lot more comfortable to cry in a Bentley than on a bicycle.

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:49 pm  

I wonder how long the legendary Sir Rodney Walker has known about this.

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:07 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

This

The "deal" was portrayed as a 100% certainty, with the only questions being about completion dates etc.
I know its not going to happen but, they ought to put a stop to the whole bloody lot and prevent any of the commercial development, until
the stadium is Guaranteed.
It is beyond belief that there can be ANY loopholes which can allow the development to take place without the Stadium

That would (more than likely) then see council breaching their own legally binding contract, which at present at least (it seems) that YCP aren't.
Crazy innit!!
Somebody has some answering to do somewhere!

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:08 pm  

Brian Briggs Ghost wrote:

I wonder how long the legendary Sir Rodney Walker has known about this.

Too busy with bigger and better things (Le Tour)

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:25 pm  

The more I read about this the more angry and frustrated I become. Planning for the development wouldn't have granted if the stadium wasn't part of it, thousands signed petitions yet the development seems to be getting built without the community stadium, what's WMDC stance on this?

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:32 pm  

It would indeed be good to see our elected council and council lots comment on this.
I'm very surprised that the WE at least haven't been running some kind of story on this.
Radio Yorkshire (who often post on here) should also be interested.

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:22 pm  

kinleycat wrote:

It would indeed be good to see our elected council and council lots comment on this.
I'm very surprised that the WE at least haven't been running some kind of story on this.
Radio Yorkshire (who often post on here) should also be interested.

It's not yet time for this. It may not be long in coming though!

Re: Upping the Ante! : Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:30 pm  

M62 J30 TRINITY wrote:

The more I read about this the more angry and frustrated I become. Planning for the development wouldn't have granted if the stadium wasn't part of it, thousands signed petitions yet the development seems to be getting built without the community stadium, what's WMDC stance on this?

I tell you exactly what the stance of WMDC is.

They realise they have dropped a huge one and have done so for a number of months. They have sat back and done nothing to right their wrong. However they have held out a carrot to Michael Carter in the form of buying back Belle Vue and then providing funds to upgrade the stadium. The idea is that some of the NM stadium land can be re designated and the profits from this is to go to the Belle Vue project.

It gets even better, the person they have in mind to redevelop the newly designated land is the one and only Colin Mackie.

They know full well that this has no chance whatsoever of happening but by going down this route they can draw the whole thing out for two or three more years. We will then get to a stage when everyone has to accept that there is no money to redevelop Belle Vue. The council will then say that it was the clubs fault for preferring that option and they went along with the clubs request. They will also say that Newmarket was killed off by the club requesting this and now its too late to go back to the original plan. (So if you are reading this Daddycool don't fall for it and stick out for Newmarket.)

Here's a bit of cynical speculation to round all this off. By this time ,the New Cas stadium will be well on the way so they can get out of any further obligations by offering us a share over there.