Parking in Stafford.

[Jonah]

The old one was knocked down due to it being structurally unsafe from what I was told.

 

[wildwood]

Waterfront car park opens to the public next Mon 21st march, I guess the cars parked in there today are council employees.....

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=668237326652030&substory_index=0&id=463199737155791.

It appears to be open now. Surprise!!!

 

[Gramaisc]

The old one was knocked down due to it being structurally unsafe from what I was told.

Has there ever been an explanation given of why a building a little over thirty years old was "structurally unsafe"?

 

[littleme]

Has there ever been an explanation given of why a building a little over thirty years old was "structurally unsafe"?

Probably all the piss that rotted the cement....

*soz for my bad language

 

[1JKz]

Has there ever been an explanation given of why a building a little over thirty years old was "structurally unsafe"?

Someone shouted INVESTMENT and DEVELOPMENT, got it printed it in a newspaper and that was that.
Structurally unsound or not, it was coming down.

We'll see the same said for the new(ish) council building in approx. 2042, those of us who are lucky enough to witness the same thing over and over, again.

 

[ATJ]

Someone shouted INVESTMENT and DEVELOPMENT, got it printed it in a newspaper and that was that.
Structurally unsound or not, it was coming down.

We'll see the same said for the new(ish) council building in approx. 2042, those of us who are lucky enough to witness the same thing over and over, again.

Yes, because SBC would really choose to leave a desperately needed multi storey car park closed for over a year for no good reason! The early closure of that car park hindered the development, not helped, because it made the new car park a top priority where it wouldn't have been before.
Come on, there's got to be a limit to the 'brown envelope' conspiracy claptrap that comes out of this forum.

 

[proactive]

there's got to be a limit to the 'brown envelope' conspiracy claptrap that comes out of this forum.

Why?

 

[Gareth]

Yep it was structural dangerous. SBC thought of ploughing the £1.2 million to fix the problem (5 years ago). I think it was even signed of by planning/ councillors

Never happened as I guess at the time all this development became interested.

 

[Jonah]

Has there ever been an explanation given of why a building a little over thirty years old was "structurally unsafe"?

Not that I know of but I do wonder if concrete cancer was a contributory factor. Plus the old Tesco/Car Park was FUGLY.

 

[1JKz]

Yes, because SBC would really choose to leave a desperately needed multi storey car park closed for over a year for no good reason! The early closure of that car park hindered the development, not helped, because it made the new car park a top priority where it wouldn't have been before.
Come on, there's got to be a limit to the 'brown envelope' conspiracy claptrap that comes out of this forum.

Hey look, we've both had an opinion ...Eyyy*!

*you have to say it like Fonzie.

 

[shoes]

The other half told me today on good authority that the reason the multi storey car park is delayed in opening is because during the testing of the facility they discovered that large cars were struggling to navigate around the place. They are now having to make alterations to remedy this before opening.

This has never, ever been a consideration when building car parks before, most NCPs won't accomodate my 'compact executive saloon' let alone a proper car.

Neither do they seem to care about harsh ramp angles, excluding me from them when in the sports car.

 

[Gramaisc]

This has never, ever been a consideration when building car parks before, most NCPs won't accomodate my 'compact executive saloon' let alone a proper car.

Neither do they seem to care about harsh ramp angles, excluding me from them when in the sports car.

I've parked by the entrance in the one by the Garrick in Lichfield once and I have been in the one at the station here, just once, when there was no space outside - otherwise, I've never used multi-storeys.

 

[Chillybean]

How many spaces have been allocated for council workers and shop workers and just exactly how many is left for shoppers or visitors I ask?
Just loved the quote best view in town, looking out and not in I suspect. Perhaps I'm being a little to negative and do hope this could this be Stafford's renaissance.

 

[ATJ]

Has there ever been an explanation given of why a building a little over thirty years old was "structurally unsafe"?

Given the fact they managed to build that car park over a mediaeval corpse, apparently without noticing, it doesn't surprise me that the foundations were unsound.

 

[ATJ]

Why?

Because it's boring and hysterical

 

[proactive]

Because it's boring and hysterical

Fair enough.

And congratulations on your promotion.

 

[Gareth]

I would suspect the car park will take up the same amount of parking that council and retail staff have taken at 600 space northwalls car park over the last few years.

the fact the multi storey has 1100 spaces it should not be an issue at all. Let alone I think I read council staff cannot use passes at weekends and out of hours, the former means spaces are freed when town would be at its busiest. But i stand to be corrected.

throw in the 150 spaces underneath m&s open in the summer and northwalls reopening with 450spaces after that, so in the space of a few months we will have gone from 600 spaces to about 1700 in town

 

[Katniss]

I usually park at Snow Hill when I go to Birmingham and I have noticed that it has a smell of urine in the stairwells so I hope they don't get the same problem at the new Riverside car park.

 

[joshua]

I would suspect the car park will take up the same amount of parking that council and retail staff have taken at 600 space northwalls car park over the last few years.

the fact the multi storey has 1100 spaces it should not be an issue at all. Let alone I think I read council staff cannot use passes at weekends and out of hours, the former means spaces are freed when town would be at its busiest. But i stand to be corrected.

throw in the 150 spaces underneath m&s open in the summer and northwalls reopening with 450spaces after that, so in the space of a few months we will have gone from 600 spaces to about 1700 in town

How many spaces are going to be lost on the sainsburys site when the bypass is built ?

 

[Gramaisc]

I usually park at Snow Hill when I go to Birmingham and I have noticed that it has a smell of urine in the stairwells so I hope they don't get the same problem at the new Riverside car park.

I don't really know where it was, but I had to play the part of a homeless man in a short film that had a scene under a stairway in a multi-storey somewhere in central Birmingham - it was a very cold day, I remember, perhaps that kept the smell down?

How many spaces are going to be lost on the Sainsburys site when the bypass is built ?

I presume that Lidl may lose a few, too?