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He he.

 

Mate the hollow pricks would have still been there had the wooly bullys not become shit.

As for happening at City soon ???
It would appear the worse we get the more our gates go up despite having a crap owner
Seems some clubs fans will support them no matter what while sum just make excuse after excuse not to go

 

That’s all in the past. Rugby League is a dying sport !!!

 

The Yankees are taking over

 

Wow.

 

One of the biggest ironies is that there could be a fairly new stadium at odsal now had Morrisons not led the objection to a new stadium being built with a tesco being one of the retail units built alongside it.

Was that during your time there Roger? @wetherbywhaler

 

I’m guessing the difference in traffic would be huge between a stadium used 20 times a year to a combined stadium and retail park including a bug Tesco.

 

The application would have failed anyway but Morrisons were a scapegoat the Council could blame.

 

Don't want to get into an arguement about an event 20 years ago but, with respect, I think you are missing the mechanics of the Planning system. The site was not allocated for the use the Application by Sterling Land anticipated, therefor it could never succeed and the Developer realised that and withdrew.
Local Plans and the like are reviewed periodically and in the last 20 years Bradford will have been no different. The review usually takes the form of a Public Inquiry at which those wanting changes can argue their point and attempt to get a new allocated use for a specific site. In the case of Odsal no representations for a new allocation were ever made. To me that simply indicates the futility of the original plan.
I have recently been involved with my Community group in a Planning Application for a Lidl store where I live. Again, despite apparently claimed huge public support the Application was rejected 9-0 by the Planning Panel as it was against the adopted Local Plan. That's how it works so to blame my old Company is a bit wide of the mark when it comes to Odsal.

 

You are not wrong. It can be very easy to put all the woes of Bradford Council down to underfunding.

 

May be "Ring Fenced" General
However the problem is they are spending their money out of the Bradford district another kick in the teeth for downtrodden Bradford traders it really makes my blood boil
Good luck to whoever calls round local companies pleading for sponsorship they may get more than they bargain for
Another of the many reasons they are failing to attract businesses to the area
Bradford at it's best again!!!!

 

You might have known my dad Steve, he was pretty high up in children's social services until he died in 1986.

 

What was his name?

 

Good stuff Dennis…..Lots who read beyond the Mail, Express and Sun for example know all this already.

It’s rife through Governmental philosophy . …..I give you Baroness Mone .

 

D

Donald Jackson

 

That's the one. As for Stonewall ....................... no chance, wrong team and he died in action.

 

It happens, but not to the same extent, no.

a lot working for the council are just full time dossers just picking up their wage, adopting a minimalist approach, and they get away with it because they’ve been there years.

Of course, many others there work their balls off and compensate but some of the tales i hear about sickness are laughable.

one person I know was doing up their house in works time, for months. Nobody batted an eyelid. They got a promotion a few years later……only happens in a council.

 

How soon will Labour be able to get funds flowing to councils from the time they win with a landslide? Are we talking a few years or much longer?