[tb]

: Thu May 21, 2009 9:25 am  

Birstalltiger wrote:

Wembley is a small town in London and Aston Villa a small town in Birmingham so what is you point.

<pedant>Aston is a small town in Birmingham. Aston Villa is a football club. </pedant?

But the point stands.

: Thu May 21, 2009 9:34 am  

tb wrote:

<pedant>Aston is a small town in Birmingham. Aston Villa is a football club. </pedant?

But the point stands.

<extremepedant>Aston is actually an area of Birmingham, not a town/village or any other municipality. It's only defined area is as an electoral ward...</extremepedant>

: Thu May 21, 2009 9:35 am  

tb wrote:

<pedant>Aston is a small town in Birmingham. Aston Villa is a football club. </pedant?

But the point stands.

To say Castleford is a small town in Wakefield is factually incorrect though. Castleford is a town which (unfortunately for its residents) lies within the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Wakefield. With a population approaching 40,000 it can hardly be classed as small either.

: Thu May 21, 2009 10:05 am  

Doesn't state a timeframe for the Architects Design Comp. Also doesn't say anything about the rest of the design team or main contractors. From experience the earlier the group is put together the easier the design proccess which inturn speeds up the construction period.

: Thu May 21, 2009 10:56 am  

Bonzo wrote:

To say Castleford is a small town in Wakefield is factually incorrect though. Castleford is a town which (unfortunately for its residents) lies within the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Wakefield. With a population approaching 40,000 it can hardly be classed as small either.

It was an unfortunate event when Castleford was placed in the WMDC, I believe it should really have been the West Riding MDC or West Yorkshire MDC.
Look at Huddersfield, which has a population of 146234, yet it's under the control of Kirklees Council.

As far as size is concerned, Castleford (40,000) is easily the biggest of the 5 towns at and growing, with Pontefract (29,000), Normanton (20,000), Knottingley (16,000) and Featherstone (11,000).

Wakefield itself only has a population of around 76,000, which is why it needs Castleford and the other surrounding towns to give it any clout, otherwise it's just a very small city even when compared with York (137,000) and compared with Leeds (440,000) or Bradford (290,000), but I suppose it's bigger than that other very tiny city Ripon (16,500)

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:04 am  

TURFEDOUT wrote:

exactly.

The sooner everything is done and dusted then we can stop it.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:11 am  

danny boy1 wrote:

It was an unfortunate event when Castleford was placed in the WMDC, I believe it should really have been the West Riding MDC or West Yorkshire MDC.
Look at Huddersfield, which has a population of 146234, yet it's under the control of Kirklees Council.

As far as size is concerned, Castleford (40,000) is easily the biggest of the 5 towns at and growing, with Pontefract (29,000), Normanton (20,000), Knottingley (16,000) and Featherstone (11,000).

Wakefield itself only has a population of around 76,000, which is why it needs Castleford and the other surrounding towns to give it any clout, otherwise it's just a very small city even when compared with York (137,000) and compared with Leeds (440,000) or Bradford (290,000), but I suppose it's bigger than that other very tiny city Ripon (16,500)

Not quite right there. WMDC is split into a number of wards (21) and as far as I am aware only 4 are used to calculate the population of Wakefield itself. WMDC has a population of 325,000 and is in the top ten of local authorities.

Castleford probably count the 3 wards of Castleford,Whitwood and Airedale to get to the 40,000.

The thing is that if you also add the other wards up that surround the 4 central wards in wakefield you would come to a much greater population figure. These wards are Horbury,Ossett,Walton,Stanley,Wrenthorpe and Wakefield rural.

Likewise with Cas you could add the ward of Knottingley.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:16 am  

Prince Buster wrote:

Likewise with Cas you could add the ward of Knottingley.

Which is nowhere near Cas. You could add Knottingley to the ward of Pontefract North.

: Thu May 21, 2009 11:17 am  

Jambon wrote:

Why would it be in Glashoughton? You need to remember you are a small town in Wakefield!

I've never really understood why Wakey fans try and use this method as a swipe at cas fans because if that was the case then I guess the fact that we get better attendances than you would be more embarrasing for you don't you think?

: Thu May 21, 2009 12:26 pm  

xJAMIEx wrote:

I've never really understood why Wakey fans try and use this method as a swipe at cas fans because if that was the case then I guess the fact that we get better attendances than you would be more embarrasing for you don't you think?

You suggesting they use logic?