You would of thought he would of learnt from the Glasshoughton fiasco. Just repeating and spinning the official line won't increase the chances of it been built but it might make him feel better. From the experiences of Glasshoughton and Newmarket its certainly safe to assume any delay is usually bad news, especially when people start spinning. What ever happened to Dickie Wright?

For me as a Cas fan the update today is slightly disappointing and the comments about funding and retailers is concerning. But on the flip side Lateral have already poured a lot of money into the project and do provide updates and there does appear to be a strong will to get get the 5 towns project done. For me personally I feel more optimistic about a new stadium than I have ever done but won't fully believe it until I'm sat in the damn thing!



I understand some posters on here pulling this latest statement apart but can you show me the last the time Yorkcourt provided an update of any kind? It's been 5 years since planning permission was passed for Newmarket and other than we can't tell you what's going on yet statements being issued every now and then I can't recall a single report of this kind from Yorkcourt.



im totally peed off with all the stadium bickering and sniping that's gone on for the last few years and would love nothing more than both our clubs being in new stadia and fighting out at the top end of super league for silverware and ALL the talk being about the rugby on the field and nothing else.

Couldn't agree more mate

This thread has nothing to do with Yorkcourt everybody and their dog on here knows all about them and their misgivings, it's about the alleged new stadium at Castleford which despite the brave efforts of a few Cas fans who have come on here desperately trying to convince us Wakey fans that everything is on track, and the same posters having to back track at every turn when the Wakey posters pull to bits their attempt at trying to assure us everything is going to plan when it clearly isn't, as for Fully, he'll believe anything they tell him.

The major issue for the 5 Towns project, is the massive tax liability created by the gifting of the stadium to Cas.



They keep trying to bill it as a community stadium to avoid this, but it's a gift, or payoff for a planning break, to a private, for profit company and someone will have a massive tax bill to pay.



Until that is resolved, nothing's getting built.

Can someone explain to a thicko how things stand with the Cas ground? Cas fans have suggested for a long time that the ground would be built without units being taken up, this never rang true with me, we then get a pension fund suggesting they'll pay up front, non of this seems right.

So please someone in lay mans terms will you please explain it to us/me?

The S106 states that no retail units can be occupied before the stadium is ready to stage a superleague match. These units can be built at the same time albeit with a slightly staggered start time. Ultimately they will both both ready around the same time despite what some rather naive cas fans might want to believe, it's just that you'll be able to go to a game on the site a couple of weeks before you can buy a nice pair of slacks. Lateral have a funding agreement with a pension investment fund to forward fund the development but for Lateral to start building they have to know that enough units will be occupied and paying rent in order to be able to pay the pension fund back what it owes, otherwise they'll lose money. Hence until the contracts are signed they won't start building anything. If/when they are then it will be all systems go but they aren't at that point yet.

Cheers SC, I assumed it was something along those lines.

Keep up thicko its not really that difficult

Why is there a thread about Cas Tigers stadium on the Wakey forum, or are we competing with the the Wakey stadium thread on the Cas forum?.

I think we're exploring the link, or common denominator that is...Box and Wakey council ?

Exactly