Call for stadium and shops inquiry (From York Press)

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  sperare e coraggio wrote:
  Speaks99 you are totally wrong.
  
  Most development sites are not owned by one individual or one firm. Monks Cross and The Castle both rely on assets owned by others, including City of York Council. Germany Beck has two owners. Other sites also have multiple interests. This is not a reason to dismiss these sites as inappropriate for redevelopment.
  The infra structure of York Teardrop is of course expensive - whether it be paid for by taxpayers or a private enterprise coming in to redevelop the whole site. And you presume that the Teardrop must have a retail element. Not necessarily so - and even if it did it is still a city centre brownfield site and not an out of town bit of green open space like Monks Cross.
  You fail to grasp the issue. The applications at Monks Cross are supposed to be determined on planning grounds and not the amount of money being offered towards a stadium. You refer to getting owners together "in the short term" because this is important to you and other football fanatics, but it is not a genuine planning consideration.
  You continue in your deluded belief that the Monks Cross applications in general and the community stadium in particular are there to save YCFC. They are not. That is not the purpose of the planning system and saving a private football club from oblivion is not a criterion for determining a planning application no matter how passionate you and others feel about the matter.
  Town planning is supposed to "do what it says on the tin". That is the proper planning of towns and cities. Putting the right thing in the right place. If the monetary consideration (bribe) and the plight of the football club are taken out of the deliberations -which they should because they are not planning matters - then no professional planner would ever accept that the community stadium should be built at Monks Cross. It is contrary to all accepted policies and doctrine.
  That is why the decision to approve Monks Cross was fundamentally flawed and should be looked at by an outside Inspector.

  You need to stop drinking and start thinking Before you post!
  
  You mentioned the teardrop site as the perfect place for the stadium. I gave you reasons why it wasn't - ie the cost. I didn't mention anything to do with gaining planning permission because it wouldn't get that far. I even gave valid planning reasons why it wouldn't pass the sequential test but you continue to think I have written something I haven't about ycfc. I didn't even mention them in my last post...
  In fact I have just read through my comments on this thread and none of them refer to anything you are talking about. I suggest you respond to things I actually say rather than put words in my mouth and respond to those."
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