The inquiry "yes" was Dec 2001.

Final and full planning permission was Dec 2002:

http://www.warringtonwolves.org/HistoryF.ink

The inquiry "yes" was Dec 2001.

Final and full planning permission was Dec 2002:

http://www.warringtonwolves.org/HistoryF.ink

That was the council approving the final plans. The hardest part had already been done at that stage by getting the public inquiry yes. The council had already indicated their support for the stadium in summer 2000.

Remember part of the argument was that for Warrington Wolves to have a long term Super League future we would need to have a new stadium, so without it we did face being in the lower leagues. Even if we had gone down the argument would have been the same, ie we need a stadium which meets the criteria to come back up.

I wonder how Simon Moran would have reacted if we'd been relegated in 2002. He might have wanted to move in and buy a majority share then, it would have cost him less to buy the club than it did in mid 2004 in SL with a new stadium. He would certainly have been able to fund us running a dominant NL squad. Cullen could have been the messiah that took us out of the lower leagues and won our first trophy in 12 years.

That was the council approving the final plans. The hardest part had already been done at that stage by getting the public inquiry yes. The council had already indicated their support for the stadium in summer 2000.

Remember part of the argument was that for Warrington Wolves to have a long term Super League future we would need to have a new stadium, so without it we did face being in the lower leagues. Even if we had gone down the argument would have been the same, ie we need a stadium which meets the criteria to come back up.

I wonder how Simon Moran would have reacted if we'd been relegated in 2002. He might have wanted to move in and buy a majority share then, it would have cost him less to buy the club than it did in mid 2004 in SL with a new stadium. He would certainly have been able to fund us running a dominant NL squad. Cullen could have been the messiah that took us out of the lower leagues and won our first trophy in 12 years.