jakeyg95 wrote:
So what can the council actually do now to try and force the developers hand? Nothing?
Yep thats about the some total of it. Unless Yorkcourt can be proved to have broken the law, and technically they probably haven't despite being morally destitute, then there is not much the council can do. Mackie won't give up the land, it's to valuable and is likely to be mortgaged up to the hilt. And as for turning down planning permissions they can't do that without viable reasons otherwise they will end up in court. The original PP is still in effect so whether Newcold is included or not they have square metres to play with and have cart blanch to sit on the land as long as they like. The permission has no time constraints whatsoever so they will play the long game.
Box coming out and slamming Yorkcourt is good in one respect but ultimately he knows it can't and win't make a blind bit of difference. They can be threats and injunctions both ways but all this does is chew up time, the one thing we don't have. Sadly i see no possible positive outcome in this at all.
