Fordy wrote:
Sorry guys, I still don't get it.
Surely a better result for us would have been approved subject to a new watertight s106 agreement??? Could the planning committee have done that? Or are Yorkcourt now saying that s106 agreements are not legally enforceable and therefore there would be no point?
I get that it is good news in that YC don't get to make more profit and not contribute anything, but it doesn't help WT in getting a stadium does it? Or am I missing something?
But the applicant made it clear that he does not have any legal obligation to make any contributions whatsoever to the stadium and the Council Officers agreed and recommended approval.
We argued that promises were made at a Public Inquiry that should be kept and the applicant should not be allowed to renage on these promises by trying to exploit what he sees as a possible loophole in the law and the Committee agreed with us.
One of the members summed Newmarket up perfectly as a complete mess. It is a mess and very complicated legally and it may need a High Court Judge to unravel the mess which the Trust would welcome.
