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15 June 2005
Leeds May Still Get Super
Casino
A
huge Las Vegas-style casino could still be on the cards for
Leeds, it emerged today.
Plans for a site next to
Leeds United's Elland Road ground appeared to have been
scuppered earlier this year by a Government climbdown on its
controversial Gambling Act. Original plans for as many as 40
massive gaming centres were cut to just one – almost
certainly not Leeds – to get the Bill through
Parliament.
Now Culture Minister
Richard Caborn has hinted that the Government might give up
to FOUR super casinos the green light and today the odds
were rapidly shortening on the Elland Road scheme being
revived.
Britain's biggest casino
operator, Stanley Leisure, paid £5m in October last
year for first option on a seven-acre site behind the
stadium's Revie Stand.
The company wanted to use
the land for a £125m development boasting 40 gaming
tables and more than 1,000 slot machines. A hotel,
restaurants, bars, leisure facilities and designer shops
would also feature in a complex that would generate at least
1,000 jobs.
A spokeswoman for Stanley
Leisure said today that the company had never abandoned its
plans to build a casino at the football ground.
She explained that it had
simply decided to concentrate on getting the go-ahead for a
smaller scale scheme there.
The spokeswoman also said,
however, that if Mr Caborn's comments did herald a shift in
Government policy, then the company might yet resurrect its
bid to set up a super casino in LS11.
John Grogan MP (Lab,
Selby) asked the minister in the House of Commons on Monday
about rumours that the Government could be ready to soften
its line on super casinos.
Mr Caborn replied: "After
all those gambles that we had to take before getting the
Bill through, the answer is that we do not rule out the
possibility of asking Parliament at some future point to
consider changing the numbers."
Last month London Clubs
International unveiled plans for a £6m casino at
Clarence Dock in Leeds.
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