Staffordshire Place

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PPPPPP said:
More bits falling off Faulty Towers and floor collapsing... will we have a subterranean library?
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We should put the councillors and senior council officials who made the decision to build this place and use the contractors they did into any new foundations.
 
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gilesjuk

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Seems to be the modern way. They closed the old brick and stone school in Huntington (the one either side of the A34) and then built a wooden monstrosity on land where the colliery used to be. It only took about 6 months before all the varnish had peeled off and the wood was looking dull. So much for efficient cavity wall buildings.

They seem to be building something equally rubbish looking by the old Library building at Staffordshire University, they're not using bricks anyway.
 
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gilesjuk said:
... a wooden monstrosity... It only took about 6 months before all the varnish had peeled off and the wood was looking dull. So much for efficient cavity wall buildings.
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I rather like the school at Huntington - are there actual, functional problems with it? Wood 'looking dull' doesn't really count as an actual problem, really, does it? I think it looks better like that.
 
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1JKz

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I've a quote; Bosses claim moving to energy efficient premises will save the taxpayer £250,000 a year for the next four decades.

We should have about a million in the bank already by now, eh??
 
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1JKz

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Erm, so the latest, the library is now moving in?!

I thought "some" of the space was for retail, that was the promise, no?, or was their some fingers crossed behind backs when this was said?

Oh, and I'm shocked how much of a mess it still looks.
 
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markpa12003

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The decision to relocate the library to the ground floor of Staffordshire Place is so short sighted of the Council and yet another own goal by them. When the Riverside Development is completed the retail focus in Stafford will shift to that part of the town, therefore, making the groundfloor of Staffordshire Place an attractive proposition for a variety of commercial and profitable uses. Unfortunately, our council have now removed that possibility.
 
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1JKz

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it's quite literally breath taking what's happening there/here.
...i ...just ...don't ...erm ...well ...understand ...what ...the ...f'

So the Shire Hall, erm, soon to be mostly empty, that space?
Two empty buildings* that were once libraries in one town, what's the record in the country?


*both gems of a building!!
 
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The Hawk

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Maybe, just maybe, the difficulty in getting anyone else to take a lease on the ground floor has something to do with the LACK of certain UTILITIES!!! :ohno:
 
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Gramaisc

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1JKz said:
it's quite literally breath taking what's happening there/here.
...i ...just ...don't ...erm ...well ...understand ...what ...the ...f'

So the Shire Hall, erm, soon to be mostly empty, that space?
Two empty buildings* that were once libraries in one town, what's the record in the country?


*both gems of a building!!
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Until we knocked the other one down a few weeks ago, we already had two empty ex-libraries. If we'd been just a bit more patient, we could have had three. And that's not counting the also knocked down ex-library at the soon-to-be-abandoned university.
 
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PPPPPP

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Really sad to walk past Rob the builder's Scaffold Place and past the empty council offices towards Martin St. The rotten window frames and generally forlorn look sums up the town completely. How can't they see that the new shopping centre will cause the rest of the main st, market and Guildhall mall to fall apart? Giving millions of quid to a tax avoiding CI developer makes it all even worse.
 
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1JKz

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PPPPPP said:
Really sad to walk past Rob the builder's Scaffold Place and past the empty council offices towards Martin St. The rotten window frames and generally forlorn look sums up the town completely. How can't they see that the new shopping centre will cause the rest of the main st, market and Guildhall mall to fall apart? Giving millions of quid to a tax avoiding CI developer makes it all even worse.
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You're speaking as if this should have all been thought through!
 
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