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Came here to post the same. This really does feel hopeful.Meant this link
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Fair points. So what would be your solution for this building?Land owner must be laughing all the way to the bank. Project will undoubtedly spiral in cost too.
I highly doubt the unattractive back part of the building will be kept in its current form.Knock it down and put a car park in. More spaces for the non-existent shoppers.
Let it slowly collapse and decay into a wildlife refuge?So what would be your solution for this building?
Or set it on fire & claim the insurance...Let it slowly collapse and decay into a wildlife refuge?
If you look at it on google maps on the satellite images you can see what looks like a hole in the roof and parts of the flat roof missing
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8077922,-2.1187349,84m/data=!3m1!1e3
probably best to knock the whole thing down (maybe keep the main facade), then ground floor becomes the new market retail units on each corner and then flats above.
It's the same on all Stafford related pages. Everything (not just yesterdays news) is negative.Go to the Stafford FM facebook page post on the subject for a real cesspit of negativity....
Stafford FM Facebook post
“It’s pushing out smaller businesses”Even if a major retailer moved onto the high street, people would still moan about it.
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 squareIt 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
At least something is happening to it....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
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.What the Co-op site cannot replicate is the link through to the de facto Bus Station at the end of North Walls.