Just a bit of heads up but the next couple of days, Thursday 15th & Friday 16th December, are going to very interesting day's (especially for the layman, if you know what I mean

) at the PI and would hope that some of you would be able to make it down to view proceedings?



Tomorrow Leeds City Council will present it's two witnesses against the Newmarket scheme, David Stainsby - Leeds City Council highways department & Sue Speak of LCC's planning department. It would be good if they had to justify their objections to a full room!



Friday is a big day and this is the first day of two that the public can give evidence to the inspector! The supporters of the scheme are up on Friday, starting with some bloke called Jonathan Stone of Residents FOR Newmarket, followed by Phil Townsend of SWAG, Ian Bramley of the Supporters Trust, Cllr Clive Hudson - Stanley Outwood East Cllr and Mohammed Ayub of Next Generation (the Asian community group hoping to keep Lightwaves open and supporting Newmarket!).



On Tuesday morning Peter Bevills of Wakefield FC will speak. Tuesday afternoon will see the public objector to the scheme present their case to the inspector.



It would be great to see plenty of support in the Inquiry room in the Town Hall over the next couple of days, especially on Friday when we speak.



The day starts at 10am and breaks for lunch around 1pm. Afternoon session starts at 2pm till around 5pm. You can however pop in whenever and leave whenever.



It would be great to see plenty of supporting faces!

We don't stand a chance

Can you boo and cheer???

I think natural reactions are fine, but maybe not cheering and booing in pantomime styleee...

Anything happening Monday? I'm free most of the day, but I go on holiday on Tuesday.

They don't sit on a Monday. To be fair, this is so the planning inspector can review progress etrc and work on other reports... he does not have the day off!

I'll try and make it tomorrow morning about 11:00. Should be interesting (was last week). Friday morning may be difficult but I may manage it.

Will see if I can do Friday again.

For those that haven't been its quite interesting, worth a visit.

I'll try and make Friday morning - depends very much on the work schedule though.

For those of us speaking - we would appreciate your support very much.



As for tomorrow, it would be great to let the LCC speakers know that we are there and watching!

Will try to get there in the morning ... but unfortunately can't make Friday as working

isappointed not to be able to make it to any of the days due to work commitments, but many thanks to all of those that are going on all the supporters behalves.

Don't know if it will make any difference, but I've written to my local councillors about all this. I live in Leeds and am furious that my taxes are being spent to opose something I'm in favour of - I wonder how many othres are in a similar position. I've also asked them to provide answers as to why they're opposing job creation on the background of all that's going on - well covered on here I know, but would be interesting to target another angle.

Could there be others in the same position?