Objections by 29th September Please! : Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:34 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time for action once again! Our friends at Yorkcourt have decided to apply for planning permission for a new Warehouse at Newmarket on a ‘Stand-alone’ basis - ie one that does not refer to or relate to the Outline Planning Permission which required the delivery of a Community Stadium for the Citizens of Wakefield!
We have always maintained that we would seek to Object to each and every application brought forward on this site until such time as there is a legally tested agreement which delivers the Stadium we are owed, but we NEED your help to do this!
Letters of objection are required from. As many of you as possible, using the template below, and by NO LATER THAN 11th SEPTEMBER! We apologise that there is little time, but this has only recently come to our attention and if you can spare a few minutes to do this, not only would we appreciate it, but you would be keeping this issue alive, potentially allowing us a route to legally challenge the actions being taken!
Many thanks for all your help - we are still in this fight because of you!Wording below to be put into either a letter or email and submitted to the planning portal, but please put your full name, address and date on:
I have just noticed the recently validated planning application (18/01169/FUL) for the erection of a warehouse unit at Newmarket Lane, Stanley and feel that under the current circumstances that I must strongly object.
The application has been submitted by Yorkcourt (2008) Limited who were granted Outline Consent following a Public Inquiry for this site in December 2012 on condition that a Community Stadium be built once 60,000m2 of floorspace had been built and occupied and was covered in a Unilateral Undertaking that Yorkcourt gave to Wakefield Council. Yorkcourt have done very little with the site other than the Newcold cold store which due to its height was the subject of a “stand alone” application in which you specifically excluded the floorspace from the obligation of the Unilateral Undertaking on legal advice, which I understand following Freedom of Information requests you are unable to provide. We are no nearer to the Community Stadium being constructed than where we were almost 6 years ago when permission was granted.
The Outline Consent granted in December 2012 would have expired by now but a Reserved Matters application was submitted just before its expiry but this application remains undecided some 9 months on. I note that this new application is a full application and not part of the Reserved Matters application so must be outside the Outline Consent and therefore is a new application in accordance with the Local Development Framework.
This new application is the perfect opportunity for the Council to fulfil its obligations as Local Planning Authority and ensure that what Yorkcourt promised HM Planning Inspector at the Public Inquiry and the Secretary of State is finally delivered and that they are not allowed to renege on their obligations.
I therefore believe that the Council should make it a condition of consent of this application that a new Multi-Party Section 106 Agreement or similar legally binding contract be provided that will ensure the delivery of the Community Stadium to the Wakefield & District Community Trust at Newmarket or some other approved site and on the same terms outlined in the Outline Consent.
Should such a condition and contract be attached to the consent then I would be delighted to remove my objection and support the application.
