Re: Bradford sports village : Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:58 pm  

Bradford Council are holding Keighley back as a town. It's about time we had our town controlled by itself and not another place 11 miles away.

Apparently there's around 70,000 in Keighley according to Wikipedia? That's a really big amount and I don't think there's a bigger area apart from Bradford itself in the Bradford Council Area. We should be able to hold our own without them.

Start the revolution.

Re: Bradford sports village : Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:10 pm  

Not wishing to pee on anyone's fire but are the council going to contribute anything to Bulls proposed new ground?

I thought the council were demolishing Richard Dunn centre and building a new sports facility as part of the Odsal development, but Bulls have to find their own funding for their stadium. I think the benifit the Bulls will get is they will not have to pay for the infrastructure, access and parking at the revamped venu.

I think the council are using some of the money from the sale of Leeds/Bradford airport.

Don't know how true this is - does anyone know??

Re: Bradford sports village : Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:03 pm  

Funding levels currently guaranteed totals £19.1m - with Bradford Council earmarking £15m of that from funds released by the sale of Leeds-Bradford Airport - and the remainder from regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.

Re: Bradford sports village : Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:38 pm  

Freedom for Keighley!!
What we gonna call ourselves, the 'People's front of Keighley', or the 'Keighley People's Front'?
What have Bradford ever done for us???

Re: Bradford sports village : Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:22 pm  

They gave us a rugby team to take the wee wee out of.!

Re: Bradford sports village : Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:38 pm  

With the bulls losing again, how long before they ask us cougars to help them out Although it might be to taxing

Re: Bradford sports village : Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:54 am  

What we gonna call ourselves, the 'People's front of Keighley', or the 'Keighley People's Front'?
What have Bradford ever done for us???

I'm starting the Keighlean Popular Peoples Front SPLITTER

Re: Bradford sports village : Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:49 am  

I don't think there would be much opposition to a break away.

When the referendum for the new town council was held approx 10 years ago, this was the outcome:

Keighley people have voted for a voice for their town in a historic referendum.

A total 16,860 voted for Keighley to have its own town council, with 1,221 opposed to the move and 34 spoiled their papers -- a majority of 93 per cent.

Of the 38,093 people eligible to vote in the proposed town council boundaries -- stretching north to Morton, south to Oakworth -- 47.55 per cent took part in the postal ballot.

As a gauge of public opinion, I think it's a pretty fair one.

Re: Bradford sports village : Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:52 pm  

Stealth Comic wrote:

To be treat somewhere equally with Br*dford would help.

This is the second time in the last 10 years they've pumped money in to that dump.

Our council tax is funding the aspirations of a club that we absolutely detest to the tune of £19m.

To be honest we're not expecting a nice shiny new ground like Leigh have but a million or two towards a new main stand would be nice.

The highlighted bit - that's not really true, you know (not the dump bit, obviously...the pumping money in bit...).

No money was "pumped in". All that happened was that the Council paid the club the net present value of what they were already contractually committed to pay (in terms of ground running costs and other annual contributions) up to 2019. No new money. In fact, with hindsight considering the current very low interest rates, the discount factor used was likely too high anyway - tough on the Bulls...life's a bitch, eh?

In return, the council got out of the escalating annual costs of operating and maintaining the ground, passing all the risks there from the Council Tax payers to the Bulls (who clearly underestimated the consequences).

Whether or not the original 1986 Agreement was fair or otherwise, to say more money was "pumped in" is either erroneous or disingenuous.

Remember too, the reversionary clause - most of the settlement has to be repaid to the council, on a sliding scale over time, if the Bulls move out of Odsal.

Incidentally, you are also TOTALLY wrong about the £19m (I may have said that to you elsewhere, too, if you post on TotalRL?) That money is predominantly from the sale of the airport, and is for the whole OSV project. Indeed, as I understand it none of that money goes into building a stadium.

If there was, say, a proposal to build a new Cougars stadium and leisure centre (to replace the Victoria LC) and other combined sporting facilities in a mini-village site say near the end of the new road off Marland Road or similar, part-funded by the council, as a council tax payer (and Aire Valley resident) I'd strongly support that.

Re: Bradford sports village : Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:23 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

Incidentally, you are also TOTALLY wrong about the £19m (I may have said that to you elsewhere, too, if you post on TotalRL?) That money is predominantly from the sale of the airport, and is for the whole OSV project. Indeed, as I understand it none of that money goes into building a stadium.

Ok fair point, but don't you think that money from the sale from a publicly owned asset that was beneficial for the whole area is being used to fund something specificly for Bradford is wrong? Where's our share?

It's things like this and the development of the city centre which are the reason so many Keighlians absolutely despise anything to do with Bradford.