Tumble weed
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What can realistically be done with the old Co-Op?
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Wormella
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Came here to post the same. This really does feel hopeful.Meant this link
The Hawk
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So, reading the report:Meant this link
1. The original Council plan was to purchase the old M&S store "to create a mews style walk from the bus station to Gaolgate Street, providing a new location for Stafford Indoor Market and a mixture of residential and commercial uses to encourage footfall within the Northern part of the Town Centre".
2. "Despite extensive negotiation with the relevant landowner it has not been possible to secure acquisition of the former Marks and Spencer’s unit in Gaolgate Street, Stafford".
3."The Co-Op site can replicate much of this transformation, retaining commercial uses including market provision and a food and beverage offer around the ground floor area with around 20 apartments above".
4. "An initial programme has been drafted that would see public engagement starting later this year ahead of submission of a detailed planning application with demolition works to follow in the new year".
DoggedWalker
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Land owner must be laughing all the way to the bank. Project will undoubtedly spiral in cost too.
proactive
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Fair points. So what would be your solution for this building?
Tumble weed
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I highly doubt the unattractive back part of the building will be kept in its current form.
Noah
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Let it slowly collapse and decay into a wildlife refuge?
littleme
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Or set it on fire & claim the insurance...
Withnail
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What the Co-op site cannot replicate is the link through to the de facto Bus Station at the end of North Walls.
Which is exactly what the purchase and control of the development of the old M&S site could have effected. Which is probably why they were held to ransom over it. Especially seeing as the owners knew the potential buyers had 'development money'. And probably why they then couldn't afford it.
Yay Capitalism!
Serving us all and always.
Which is exactly what the purchase and control of the development of the old M&S site could have effected. Which is probably why they were held to ransom over it. Especially seeing as the owners knew the potential buyers had 'development money'. And probably why they then couldn't afford it.
Yay Capitalism!
Serving us all and always.
GNM67
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So my crystal ball was working.
c0tt0nt0p
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Go to the Stafford FM facebook page post on the subject for a real cesspit of negativity....
Stafford FM Facebook post
Stafford FM Facebook post
airbusA346
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It's the same on all Stafford related pages. Everything (not just yesterdays news) is negative.
Even if a major retailer moved onto the high street, people would still moan about it.
Cue
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Theresa Green
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It is
Notoriously difficult to spend large bribes like the one SBC has
The spend has a time limit, after which if not used up it is forfeited
But the trickiest bit is spending it so that there is no further ongoing expenditure in the following years after the bribe has been cashed in
The dumbest thing I heard today was someone saying that the bribe doesn’t cost the people of Stafford anything
It’s money, from taxes
Implying that people from Stafford haven’t paid their taxes
Notoriously difficult to spend large bribes like the one SBC has
The spend has a time limit, after which if not used up it is forfeited
But the trickiest bit is spending it so that there is no further ongoing expenditure in the following years after the bribe has been cashed in
The dumbest thing I heard today was someone saying that the bribe doesn’t cost the people of Stafford anything
It’s money, from taxes
Implying that people from Stafford haven’t paid their taxes
littleme
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It's bloody money off the government for town regeneration, if they don't use it , they loose it, same as what they used to pay for paving in market square
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littleme
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At least something is happening to it....
Theresa Green
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Expect more bribe’s shortly before the General Election
Stafford now actually has it’s own political working party dedicated to keeping it a Conservative seat
HS2 cash is expected to be drained off to fluff up the town’s current MP’s status and hide the hundreds of swindles that have been made by successive but never successful Tory Governments
Stafford now actually has it’s own political working party dedicated to keeping it a Conservative seat
HS2 cash is expected to be drained off to fluff up the town’s current MP’s status and hide the hundreds of swindles that have been made by successive but never successful Tory Governments
Mudgie
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Yes, so we need Market Square bringing back to what it used to be, fancy paving replaced by bus stops that bring people right into the town centre for using the shops and the pubs.