Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:21 am  

jourdmart wrote:

Sadly, that pretty much sums up Cas town centre nowadays anyway. There's only really the market that has any representation of independant traders. I don't think a large food orientated supermarket on Wheldon Road is going to damage business there any more than Asda at Glasshoughton has. The main issue, as many have pointed out, is access. The roundabout at the bottom of the bridge is bad enough on normal weekends - it could be a nightmare without new access points (new bridge and road at the old Wheldale pit?).

Council needs to get its act together or town centres will give up on what little life they have left. Free parking and cheaper rates for small shops would be a start.

As for WR, its a pity you can't build your stadium there, with a bit of imagination it would make a fantastic riverside stadium and would actually bring money into the town centre rather than its periphery.

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:23 am  

dboy wrote:

Where do I suggest that the traffic will be constantly at match day levels???

Residents want convenient shopping - they don't want a superstore and the associated traffic on theor doorstep.

Wrong! Residents want a hypermarket with free parking on somebody elses doorstep!

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:26 am  

wakeyrule wrote:

Wrong! Residents want a hypermarket with free parking on somebody elses doorstep!

Errm...so I am right then!?

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:31 am  

dboy wrote:

Errm...so I am right then!?

Depends what you meant - you did say that they don't want a superstore, but I am happy to concede that you meant thay WANT a superstore, but display NIMBY tendencies!

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 7:53 pm  

so cas will have traffic problems at wheldon road and so will newmarket as i travel up that rd everyday and trying to turn right at that junction is a nightmare

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:05 pm  

plus i wanna know why wakefield wildcats are so interested in our posts on the cas site is your site boring

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:09 pm  

plus i wanna know why wakefield wildcats are so interested in our posts on the cas site is your site boring

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:23 pm  

mallcmjlm100 wrote:

so cas will have traffic problems at wheldon road and so will newmarket as i travel up that rd everyday and trying to turn right at that junction is a nightmare

Try a different route then! Its up to the planners to sort WR out, just like they have for Nemarket if it gets built. Lets not start another 'Ours will be ready first' bitch=fest, eh?

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:27 pm  

mallcmjlm100 wrote:

plus i wanna know why wakefield wildcats are so interested in our posts on the cas site is your site boring

OK, I heard you first time! Such a devastating quip I can't think of a come-back!

Re: Ground work : Tue May 10, 2011 8:48 pm  

wakeyrule wrote:

Having said that, the supermarkets won't be interested in the site if there are access problems, as this would put customers off, and the planning department/highways are well clued up on this - the anti-supermarket lobby around the country has seen to that!

Nope. Planning permission was granted for a Tesco superstore in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire (where I live). Oddly, it's in a similar situation to Wheldon Road (on the site of an old Carpet Factory, nearby some former industrial space surrounded by former industrial housing, no local retail sites and by a river.) The traffic situation in Stourport is much worse than it is down in that area of Castleford, objections were lodged by residents, shopkeepers, the other major Supermarket in the town (Co-Operative), and still planning consent was given.

So I wouldn't write it off just by that type of speculation yet. At the end of the day, if Opus is involved, they must be fairly confident of getting permission. They're in it for business, pure and simple. If they didn't think it was possible to do, they wouldn't have touched it with a bargepole, and they have much, much more experience of these type of projects than most of us.