The conoco stadium was the only realistic hope,when the ‘enabling’ development was actually there – B&Q wanted to go there,planning was secured but various issues came up from residents objecting of having the stadium in the village of Great Coates and by time the various hurdles had been overcome B&Q had decided to put their store in Town instead . Fenty did not start the process for it , but certainly finished it – he scrapped the idea for his dream of another site , Peakes Parkway ; he got Extreme Leisure on board (who had no prior experience of delivering a football stadium project ) and wanted the council to pony up a substantial amount of the capital – his presentation to them was pointing to a spot on the site and saying ‘I want it there ‘ . Another one gone .
Rinse and repeat with Freeman Street
So we are left with the good old BP for the medium to long term .
