I am not sure where this speculation about the council meeting that happened today was going to ratify the LDF came from. I originally understood that the target for adopting the LDF sites plan was always June 2012, but that was before the hearings were delayed, due to the Newmarket PI and then delayed again due to the new National Planning Policy Framework, same as the Newmarket Planning application. I understand that it will either go before full council in July or more likely September (with the summer break & no meeting in August). It was not on the agenda for today, which would have been released some time last week.
However, it matters not one bit really, because it is going to be voted through, most likely unanimously, as a formality. They can't mess about with the sites plan, they either ratify it it full or turn the whole thing down. They are not going to turn it down, because that would go against the point of the public hearings and the independent inspection as well as throw four years worth of work and tax payer money out with it.
What mattered with the LDF was the inspectors final report, which is of course very favourable to the Newmarket site, the fact the council have not gone through the final and very small step of adopting it is almost irrelevant.
Trust me, this is not the reason the decision has been delayed and if what I have heard is true, and I think it might be, the reason the decision has been delayed is very mundane indeed.
No, I won't be sharing the reason until after the decision is made or a new deadline is set, because it might unfounded and I do know that know one, WMDC, the Club, Yorkcourt has been formally told anything more than we all know... & that is nothing!
The club are quiet and I can guess the reason... what ever the decision, positive or negative, they have to live with it, move on and keep running a professional sports club... and they have nothing more to say, because there is nothing more to say.
Sorry, reading this back it sounds a bit of a rant... it isn't, I think we are all feeling the anxiety and although I could not be more positive than I am now we all still have the small voice saying 'but what if it isn't?'
