Thanks Sandal Cat. This whole debacle leaves an extremely bitter taste in the mouth.

I have a terrible feeling that my ever unreliable car is going to have a serious breakdown on my commute home. I really worry that even though I'll be able to pull off a major A road, it will end up breaking down in the middle of an industrial estate road. This would obviously be a shocking event, and even after attempting to fix it for a while, I'll still be in the middle of this road when the AA van turns up. I truly hope that this breakdown doesn't affect wagons accessing their facilities. I also hope it doesn't happen repeatedly in the same place as that would be awful

House of Lords, Baron Pickles of Brentwood - Lord Pickles





in short, probably not a lot

If we don’t get a community stadium in the City of Wakefield are we going for a judicial review in the councils incompetence of not enforcing the 106 correctly. Is this letter from Yorkcourts solicitor confirming they’ve not enforced the section 106 correctly?

Up the Trin

I am not a cllr Box fan, but he did make a public statement about Yorkcourt, I quote "" Yorkcourt have no intention of providing a stadium, they should walk away, we can then look to someone else to provide one'' unquote, therefore what do we believe now ? ?

Box had his fingers crossed at the time he said this.

Is anyone thinking about objecting to the letter? Adding comments?

I have instructed my solicitors to inform you that I am the love child of Elvis Presley.



The above statement has the same validity as that of Yorkcourt solicitors statement.



If you pay them enough they will say it but it doesn’t make it correct or even mean they believe it.



Yorkcourt are fishing, they are testing the resolve of the opposition. They are doing so because the opposition is annoying them by stopping them doing what they do best - buy ridiculously cheap then sell at huge profits.



However there comes a point where they need to move the goods and it looks like we are now at that point. To me this is a good thing because at least we know where we stand and can fight fire with fire.



That site has great value and if Yorkcourt can’t make it work it won’t be long before they are under pressure from those who can and who in turn may be a little more reasonable.



Also as an aside Box is now under real pressure for numerous reasons so hopefully this will only speed his demise.



So not bad news imho.

I imagine the council will eventually just throw their hands up and say 'sorry, our fault' (probably some blanket statement, not Box obviously) and blame it on some error in not seeing the loopholes in the original agreement. Then say legally there's nothing to stop Yorkcourt with other applications and just carry on letting them do what they wish. The council gets the blame and labeled inept which we already know, and nothing changes...

Human error is always a good one, and strangely enough the solicitor for WMDC resigned a few weeks since, scapegoat anyone?

I tend to agree - these letters, whilst they sound authoritative, are often just statements of intent; what this does do however, quite aside from the legal complexities, is make YC's attitude and intentions entirely clear - as predicted, they do not intend to contribute a brass farthing to a community stadium, and will instead continue to obfuscate and circumvent the agreement until the site is built-out.



WMDC's response will be interesting - I would imagine they'll desperately be looking for some kind of compromise, as if this goes fully legal, several parties will have skeletons that they'd much rather stayed firmly in the closet - not least Mr Box and his cohorts.

If the solicitor who resigned ever gets subpoenaed, who knows just what will come out.