Head Honcho Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 We all complain about the council but what decision by the council turned out to be the biggest gaff. I think rejecting the NEC in the 70's because "the big acts will not perform outside London" will take some beating. A potential 5 million visitors a year to the city turned down because a bunch of councillors thought it wasn't a good idea
Flynny Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 I didn't know that! Christ. That'd have done the city no end of good.
Bloomer Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 The council offices on new walk must be up there, they are falling to bits. The current fiasco in Halford street is a corker as well. Job finished last week but they got to rip it up again cos the finish isnt good enough! This after the wrong slate was deleivered etc. etc.
Flynny Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 The council offices on new walk must be up there, they are falling to bits. The current fiasco in Halford street is a corker as well. Job finished last week but they got to rip it up again cos the finish isnt good enough! This after the wrong slate was deleivered etc. etc. Obviously I should read the Mercury (hah!) or something, 'cos I didn't know that, either, and I pass it every day. Utterly ludicrous.
Head Honcho Posted 15 March 2007 Author Posted 15 March 2007 The council offices on new walk must be up there, they are falling to bits. The current fiasco in Halford street is a corker as well. Job finished last week but they got to rip it up again cos the finish isnt good enough! This after the wrong slate was deleivered etc. etc. No coincidence I think that, that building was built around the same time. You can just imagine it. Hands up who wants a brand new purpose built city centre office with parking and great views of the city...... ..........and who wants a state of the art exhibition centre bringing 5 million visitors annually to the city.
Thracian Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 I didn't know that! Christ. That'd have done the city no end of good. I didn't know that either being based in mainland Europe at the time. It frightens me the sort of morons who get elected to council's everywhere and then make the most indefensible decisions with their sudden taste of power. Nowadays I rarely vote in anything. I'm just not prepared to give my backing to people who I don't know, or who have not spent years in my community making a success of various aspects of their own life before assuming they can make the right decisions on behalf of others. To me its like having relationship advice from people who's own relationships have constantly fallen apart. How, for instance, can people make rational judgements on the benefits or otherwise on something like the NEC if they haven't run businesses of their own or have no expertise on the entertainment and leisure industries or its potential for developing income and publicity for an area?
hairy Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 The council offices on new walk must be up there, they are falling to bits. The current fiasco in Halford street is a corker as well. Job finished last week but they got to rip it up again cos the finish isnt good enough! This after the wrong slate was deleivered etc. etc. They are looking to relocate now to another purpose built office within the city. They have until 2010 to find a site, design it, get planning, build it and move in. I wonder if any of the bookies will take money on them not meeting that date.
Dr The Singh Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 I didn't know that either being based in mainland Europe at the time. It frightens me the sort of morons who get elected to council's everywhere and then make the most indefensible decisions with their sudden taste of power. Nowadays I rarely vote in anything. I'm just not prepared to give my backing to people who I don't know, or who have not spent years in my community making a success of various aspects of their own life before assuming they can make the right decisions on behalf of others. To me its like having relationship advice from people who's own relationships have constantly fallen apart. How, for instance, can people make rational judgements on the benefits or otherwise on something like the NEC if they haven't run businesses of their own or have no expertise on the entertainment and leisure industries or its potential for developing income and publicity for an area? That's the problem with the public sector, including NHS and Council..........the salaries and expertise tend to be far less then the private sector. Also the public sector is too rigid, too paper pushing and far less dynamic then private!! Hence £Â£Ã‚£Ã‚£Ã‚£'s just get wasted!!!!!!!
Zingari Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 do you think the city "monorail" system would have been a good thing; i think it might have been.
Dr The Singh Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 do you think the city "monorail" system would have been a good thing; i think it might have been. Same one as Springfield???
lookwhaticando Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 Don't go for a monorail, go for a futuristic pod system... like the one Daventry (Northants, where I last lived in England) is planning on building in the next 10 years.
Head Honcho Posted 15 March 2007 Author Posted 15 March 2007 Don't go for a monorail, go for a futuristic pod system... like the one Daventry (Northants, where I last lived in England) is planning on building in the next 10 years. From Daventry today: The electric pods can carry four people and are driverless. Passengers would call a pod to a stop, and be taken directly to where they want to go at speeds of up to 40 mph. According to the report, a pod system where people had to wait just over a minute and pay 80p a trip would take 33 per cent of vehicles off Daventy's roads. Depending on the options building the system could cost £66.6 million, and over 60 years running costs could be £96.9 million with revenues being £150 million. Sounds too good to be true
Zingari Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 From Daventry today: The electric pods can carry four people and are driverless. Passengers would call a pod to a stop, and be taken directly to where they want to go at speeds of up to 40 mph. According to the report, a pod system where people had to wait just over a minute and pay 80p a trip would take 33 per cent of vehicles off Daventy's roads. Depending on the options building the system could cost £66.6 million, and over 60 years running costs could be £96.9 million with revenues being £150 million. Sounds too good to be true sounds like something out of a gerry anderson puppet show ; space patrol or something would love to see it happen http://www.daventrytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle...ticleID=2066944
lookwhaticando Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 From Daventry today: The electric pods can carry four people and are driverless. Passengers would call a pod to a stop, and be taken directly to where they want to go at speeds of up to 40 mph. According to the report, a pod system where people had to wait just over a minute and pay 80p a trip would take 33 per cent of vehicles off Daventy's roads. Depending on the options building the system could cost £66.6 million, and over 60 years running costs could be £96.9 million with revenues being £150 million. Sounds too good to be true Davetry, a town of 22,367 as of 2001, building a pod system. The councils action plan for the future includes extending a nearby canal into the town centre, and building something of a marina in the town centre... They want to build a suspension bridge on a road (the A45) leading into the town... Oh and they want to do some less radical stuff like moving the college to a new area with spunky new buildings, and bulldoze some crappy shops near the town centre and replacing them with new ones. The Daventry Masterplan - imagined up by some outrageous drunks who happen to be sitting on the District Council. (Click the link above for a picture of the space-age travelling pods!)
Zingari Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 Davetry, a town of 22,367 as of 2001, building a pod system. The councils action plan for the future includes extending a nearby canal into the town centre, and building something of a marina in the town centre... They want to build a suspension bridge on a road (the A45) leading into the town... Oh and they want to do some less radical stuff like moving the college to a new area with spunky new buildings, and bulldoze some crappy shops near the town centre and replacing them with new ones. The Daventry Masterplan - imagined up by some outrageous drunks who happen to be sitting on the District Council. (Click the link above for a picture of the space-age travelling pods!) thats right ,laugh if you want ; they all laughed at ......errr whatshisname, (invented something or other)
lookwhaticando Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 thats right ,laugh if you want ; they all laughed at ......errr whatshisname, (invented something or other) You're right... I shouldn't laugh. After all, if they pull off the suspension bridge and an ancient means of transportation (a canal), the town will be inundated with excited tourists trying to come and see if it's real or not! Then, when they realize it's real, they can all laugh at the lunacy of the whole scheme. A canal!! A bloody suspension bridge on the A45! lol I'd move back to Daventry just to see a bloody suspension bridge! Although I doubt it'll be as impressive as the Humber or the Severn Bridges.
Zingari Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 You're right... I shouldn't laugh. After all, if they pull off the suspension bridge and an ancient means of transportation (a canal), the town will be inundated with excited tourists trying to come and see if it's real or not! Then, when they realize it's real, they can all laugh at the lunacy of the whole scheme. A canal!! A bloody suspension bridge on the A45! lol I'd move back to Daventry just to see a bloody suspension bridge! Although I doubt it'll be as impressive as the Humber or the Severn Bridges. surely you can't hold the daventry council responsible for the town not straddling a major river though; they can only use whats available to them and if its the A45 and not the blue nile so be it
lookwhaticando Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 surely you can't hold the daventry council responsible for the town not straddling a major river though; they can only use whats available to them and if its the A45 and not the blue nile so be it lol The 'bridge' is nowhere near any water as far as I remember. The closest body of water is passing through Weedon - which is several miles away from the supposed location of the bridge! So it's a suspension bridge over troubled waters... waters so troubled, they upped and left from under the council's nose.
Head Honcho Posted 15 March 2007 Author Posted 15 March 2007 Davetry, a town of 22,367 as of 2001, building a pod system. The councils action plan for the future includes extending a nearby canal into the town centre, and building something of a marina in the town centre... They want to build a suspension bridge on a road (the A45) leading into the town... Oh and they want to do some less radical stuff like moving the college to a new area with spunky new buildings, and bulldoze some crappy shops near the town centre and replacing them with new ones. The Daventry Masterplan - imagined up by some outrageous drunks who happen to be sitting on the District Council. (Click the link above for a picture of the space-age travelling pods!) Greater Daventry has a population of around 70000. Which would mean that for the maths to work every person from Daventry would have to use the system at least once a week. Although £50000 a week running costs sounds ambitious.
Ultra Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 We all complain about the council but what decision by the council turned out to be the biggest gaff. I think rejecting the NEC in the 70's because "the big acts will not perform outside London" will take some beating. A potential 5 million visitors a year to the city turned down because a bunch of councillors thought it wasn't a good idea What is your source for this story? I have access to council archives from that era and cannot find anything about it? Also remember if the scheme had got off the ground it may have well involved substantial expense from local ratepayers, much like the replacement theatre is doing now. In that climate no party of that time could have put the idea forward without being wiped out at the next election.
Head Honcho Posted 15 March 2007 Author Posted 15 March 2007 What is your source for this story? I have access to council archives from that era and cannot find anything about it? Also remember if the scheme had got off the ground it may have well involved substantial expense from local ratepayers, much like the replacement theatre is doing now. In that climate no party of that time could have put the idea forward without being wiped out at the next election. Why do I need a source you pillock I can remember it! ........and any cost would have been offset by increased tourism and jobs thats just for starters.
lookwhaticando Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 Why do I need a source you pillock I can remember it! ........and any cost would have been offset by increased tourism and jobs thats just for starters. Wikipedia: NEC.
Tomassi Posted 15 March 2007 Posted 15 March 2007 i remember some councillor telling me that Leicester was the 2nd Richest City in Europe in 1961 and has since been on the decline... ...Basically we should now be bigger than birmingham but due to people at the top f***** up...
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