The story of the morning would appear to be an argument over how many jobs are actually likely to be created at Newmarket. The figures produced by Wakefield say it is between 1468 & 1986! LCC barrister, having earlier used a figure of 3000 jobs to dispute total car parking number on the site and make the argument that parking was lacking, then disputes these numbers!!! He gets Wakefield to admit that the minimum number of jobs that would be created is 1468. I'll post that again, the minimum number of jobs is 1468!!! Andy Wallhead admits this is a minimum number but WMDC calculations show that they predict an actual number of 1986 jobs and that is the number they are stating is more realistic! Surprise, surprise, LCC disagree that this is a realistic figure!
So, the good news is Leeds only think they are blocking 1468 jobs... Keith Wakefield must be so proud!