Staffordshire Place

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henryscat said:
Get that freedom of information request in....!

The cost of all the Rozzers crawling about the place couldn't have been insignificant.

All of the royals are a complete waste of time and money. If it was necessary to have someone unveil a plaque, surely someone from Staffordshire who has actually contributed to society could have been nominated.
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I've no objection to a royal opening it. Surely the Wessex isn't important enough to justify significant police protection beyond a body-guard or two when out an about.

I just don't understand why the scaffolding had to be removed for the visit. We've all had to look at it scaffolding-clad for ages so why not a member of the royal family?
 
Gramaisc

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Wessex? This is a proper Wessex..

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..hidden away on the old RAF...
 
Jonah

Jonah

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And I was correct. Been past at 8.20am this morning and the barriers are being put back into place and the cherry picker is back.

What a complete and utter waste of money.
 
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

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Gramaisc said:
This kind of sycophantic, pretentious bullshit really amazes me. Have these decisions really been taken by fully grown adult humans?
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Indeed. If they now proceed to go back to chucking all the iron work back up around the building having paid (our money) to take it all down just so that it looks less of a total mess for the cup of tea stop of a minor Royal then they really have taken leave of their senses.
It isn't bad enough that they have wasted countless millions on a piece of East German architecture that isn't even up striaght, or that they have blown more money on new paving because the last stuff having being down for about 12 months got trashed by heavy machinery they now hit us with this. Of course they will make spurious claims that it is all fantastic and they are saving £560bn or whatever it is by not photocopying as much anymore or some other made up statistic but the fact remains that they have shelled out £40m of our money on a turd.
 
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Interesting to see earlier that as the State opening of Parliament came to a close, just after Her Maj left a carriage was filled with some of the Royal Paraphernalia of such State occasions, including the "Cap of Maintenance"
I wonder if The Queen would consider lending said cap to The County Council to see if it would have more success in fixing Faulty Towers...
 
Spelunker

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Gramaisc said:
This kind of sycophantic, pretentious bullshit really amazes me. Have these decisions really been taken by fully grown adult humans?
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Very much looks like it. And I would go as far as to suggest that this isn't the limit of the bullshit that is involved.
Volkerfitzpatrick the contractor has the buildings listed here http://www.volkerfitzpatrick.co.uk/en/projects/detail/staffordshire-county-council
claiming it was finished in 82 weeks!
The contract was a design and build with no supervision from the County , which had a first class Clerk of Works team at one time (since outsourced to Capita) .
The professional team for the development were either working for the developer or the contractor.
So little or no control for the end user.
It amazes me that an organisation with the spread of disciplines such as the County didn't put a supervision team on the project. Hell it might have kept some of the development services professionals in jobs.
 
Gramaisc

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Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt said:
Interesting to see earlier that as the State opening of Parliament came to a close, just after Her Maj left a carriage was filled with some of the Royal Paraphernalia of such State occasions, including the "Cap of Maintenance"
I wonder if The Queen would consider lending said cap to The County Council to see if it would have more success in fixing Faulty Towers...
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When the President came past to 'open' our refurbished Credit Union office some years ago and celebrated its 21st anniversary, the preparations comprised largely of Paddy Powell saving her a parking space by putting the squad car in it and moving it away at the last moment.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=rathdowney&hl=en&ll=52.852677,-7.582026&spn=0.021691,0.038581&hnear=Rathdowney, County Laois, Ireland&gl=uk&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.855727,-7.58674&panoid=Q85VYm6UKIg7Hsmtu2nrdg&cbp=12,216.09,,2,13.52

Plaque made by the chap who does the local gravestones.
 
1JKz

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oh boy, this really does stink of taureau'merde ...pardon my french!

So, it's not far from looking like like a Changing Rooms episode, from afar really not that bad as far as looks are concerned impo, but look close-up the finishing is awful and workmanship really quite pisstakey.

Right, can't wait for the next development, all in the name of, erm, ...development!?
 
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bigbluewolf said:
And I was correct. Been past at 8.20am this morning and the barriers are being put back into place and the cherry picker is back.

What a complete and utter waste of money.
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Yeah, but whose money?

I'd have hoped that the contractor would have given a date (say March 31st) by which the work would have been finished, and that someone would have booked the ceremony for a later date with the proviso that all equipment had been removed. If it then transpires that the work overruns, then the contractor would pick up the bill for removing the scaffolding etc before the ceremony and returning it after.

I'm possibly being a bit naive, but I'd hope that all the extra costs since the place was opened in October 2011 would be borne by the contractor and that the only damage to the council would be to its reputation.
 
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

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Mikinton said:
Yeah, but whose money?

I'd have hoped that the contractor would have given a date (say March 31st) by which the work would have been finished
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The contractors DID give a date that the work would be finished - it was in the local papers after there were showdown talks between Council officials and the workers about the snail like rate of progress with the snags. The date you say? DECEMBER 2012.

#farce.
 
proactive

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I think it looks fine as a building, it's just a shame that it does not pass close scrutiny. Also, the money could have been better spent elsewhere. However, as I'm sure I must have said before, Councils have no idea of the value of money as they always spend other people's. Bet it would never have been given the go-ahead if it had involved a cut in expenses to pay for it.
 
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This is one of my favourite threads. Everyone just agrees with each other and comes up with something amusing to say - it's brilliant!
 
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