What can realistically be done with the old Co-Op?

staffordjas

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I've not skated for 30yrs! We could go together - although I don't think there's tenna pants big enough for how much we would laugh x @BobClay and @Gramaisc could come too, I bet @staffordjas, @Gadget & @Jade-clothing would come too - Forum night out!
Sounds good.....as long as there's a rail for me to clutch onto all night . Don't think I ever got any further than shuffling round and round the edge hanging onto the sides . :lol:

Never tried ice skating, I'm bad enough tottering along icy pavements ...
 

Gadget

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Back in the day I could skate. These days it could be more like that scene in Harry Potter when Ron turns his Boggart into a spider wearing roller skates, hilarious but slightly terrifying lol
 

markpa12003

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I used to live in Dubai - they have ski slopes and an aquarium within their shopping centres so roller blading is certainly doable.
 

BobClay

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I always considered by self a skater, however I can't deny that when I did skate all things around me appeared to disintegrate. Bit like this scene after Michael Palin moves the small table …. :?:

 

kyoto49

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25 parking spaces is quite generous for a town centre development. No green space? How could there ever be green space, it's the town centre...

It's quite possible to integrate green space in town centres, green space is a loose term that doesn't just mean a patch of grass. It's this backward type planning that leads to the new developments being so shit.
 

proactive

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It's quite possible to integrate green space in town centres, green space is a loose term that doesn't just mean a patch of grass. It's this backward type planning that leads to the new developments being so shit.
Maybe you could suggest how that could be done, in that location then, in a commercially viable way?
 

BobClay

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Maybe you could suggest how that could be done, in that location then, in a commercially viable way?

At the risk of 10 points off for repetition:
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

:P
 
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gilbert grape

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It's a fair sized site if you consider it goes way back to the corner of Salter street, near the Vine car park. I'd imagine a gated car park with a barrier on the rear corner like a few places that have been built around town.
Regarding a retail area, I still think a food hall of maybe 4 units would be a success in the town but it relies on somebody having the imagination.
 
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