vastman wrote:
For once we agree.
This I fear is it.
Note, it may not go through first time on minor issues. Not ideal but only a small delay.
Plot 8 is more of a worry as it’s both or nothing.
Trinity still requires the Stadium plans to pass looking at this paragraph from recent documents, it seems the council still paying £2 million, don’t know where the other £8.3 million comes from though if plot 8 application fails. As you say plot 8 is the golden key.
The applicant for planning application ref. 20/02249/FUL proposes to make an £8.8 million contribution towards the delivery of the stadium improvement works which are the subject of this report. The applicant argues that this contribution, in combination with a £2m allocation from the WMDC Sports Resilience Fund, would facilitate the delivery of the stadium improvement works (which Spirit of 1873 estimate will cost £10.8m). The applicant argues that the stadium improvement works would result in significant public benefits associated with providing suitable standard accommodation for Wakefield Trinity R.L.F.C and the utilisation of the enhanced facilities by community groups.
A set of Planning Obligations are proposed to be included within a legal agreement Under Section 106 of the Act which would be signed by both Spirit of 1873 (The Club) and Newmarket Lane Ltd and would require the £8.8m contribution to be made within 1 week of the approval of a Delivery Plan for the stadium improvement project. A further (negatively framed) planning obligation would bar Newmarket Lane Ltd from commencing the warehouse development until both the approval of the Delivery Plan and the payment of the contribution.
However, if the planning application for the stadium improvement works which is the subject of this report (application ref. 20/02587/FUL) is approved, the resultant planning permission would be a self-contained consent for the carrying out of the improvement works and the planning consent would not control the source of funding for the scheme. Any consent for the stadium improvement works would stand irrespective of whether the application for the warehouse development is approved or refused. Therefore, the information set out above should be treated as contextual information only which is not material to the determination of the stadium improvement works application, which should be considered upon its merits alone.
