Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
12:5239315The project has actually been a lotn longer than 11 years. I was on the Council's Land Committee in 1983 when we have a meeting in the area of the DTIZ and agreed a process to start work towards a re-development. There was a tangled web of leases, under leases and so on that all needed to be brought into alignment and also is was decided that the Council should start accumulating land. We said then that it was at least a 20 year project.
The fact is that it is a complex site bedvilled with a whole lot of issues. Like you I want to see progress fats and I know for a fact that DDC leadership feel the same and are as frustrated as everyone else.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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1 February 2010
13:0239317I'm sure there are many frustrations over this, Barry. My point was that if ASDA have walked/been axed couldn't we now look at the whole development again and put in a new leisure centre where ASDA was to have been. You certainly have the expertise, given your Land Committee experience, to say whether its feasible. Funding, I know, is a separate issue, but I have to say that the location would seem to be good.
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
14:3539329I do not know how you can blame the Town Council for the toilet closure, The Town Council do not own the loo's, we do not have the keys to the loo's, we have no control over the loo's, (facts)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
14:3639330Personally a leisure centre seems a silly idea have no green space !!
Unfortunately the only way £millions are going to found to buy and demolish Burlington House and the multi-story will be via a major shop investor...
Having said that why not have the proposed shops that were turned down at Whitfield there ?
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
14:4539332Andy - the point is that DDC have started playing hard-ball with Asda over their (Asda's) delays. I dont know whether that is wise as if Asda pull out, the development would collapse unless there is something in the background DDC are keeping close to their chests. There is no suggestion at the moment that Asda are pulling out, just a later than desirable opening date late 2011 from memory.
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1 February 2010
16:0739333Sheila
I wasn't blaming the Town Council for the closure of the loos, DDC are! I think the Town Council are entirely blameless for that fiasco.
Barry
Thanks. That's my own fear, that the whole project would collapse. Given the delays, I'm not sure whether the collapse of the project wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing (although it would probably cost zillions!) as the project could then be replanned. I quite like Scotchie's idea of relocating the proposed Whitfield shop development there. Seems eminently sensible to me.
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
17:0139335Andy
DDC are blue run, so it cannot be red spin drival
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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1 February 2010
17:3539340Thank you Sheila, I'm aware of that! My allegory was that the excuses sound like Labour spin, not that they actually were Labour spin.....
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
18:3139344A late 2011 is nothing in the grand scheme of things....
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
19:3939355The question really is Andy would the Whitfield developer want to relocate there..... I doubt it.
1 February 2010
21:3839369Surely the answer for the DTIZ site is to build a brand spanking up to date, modern, aesthetically pleasing............. BUS STATION!
Can we manage that? Erm, probably not.
Brian Dixon
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1 February 2010
21:4939373bumpped into mystic meg this morning,got chatting as you do.anyway before she said her goodbyes,she predicted a large lorry park in the ditz area.
