Comments on: Shambolic Part 2 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200809/shambolic-part-2/ ranting and rambling to anyone willing to listen Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:08:42 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mark fairlamb http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200809/shambolic-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37559 mark fairlamb Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:03:42 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=742#comment-37559 takes you back, doesn't it? i remember a day before all these big new developments when large areas of gateshead were just left to rot. can you feel the nostalgia? takes you back, doesn’t it?
i remember a day before all these big new developments when large areas of gateshead were just left to rot.
can you feel the nostalgia?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200809/shambolic-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37499 Anonymous Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:07:16 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=742#comment-37499 Also think of the amount of business rates lost to the tax payer of Gateshead, I did not, and still do not undertand the reason for shutting everything 8 months and counting before anything happens, why could the business' not have been put on a 1 month rolling lease of the premises while the plans were finalised. The really sad thing is whn all is said and done all that will be there is a big Tesco superstore, with a few chosen others (chosen not to compete with Tesco), as in Sunderland selling the land to a private company to develop is an exercise in stupidity an futility. Well at least we may get the cable car!! The past few weeks there has been a consultaion as to what people want there. I am not a town planner so am not claiming to be an expert on this process but shouldn't this have been done before closing the whole place down, or is it just to hide the fact that in 8 months absolutly bugger all has actually been done. Also think of the amount of business rates lost to the tax payer of Gateshead, I did not, and still do not undertand the reason for shutting everything 8 months and counting before anything happens, why could the business’ not have been put on a 1 month rolling lease of the premises while the plans were finalised.

The really sad thing is whn all is said and done all that will be there is a big Tesco superstore, with a few chosen others (chosen not to compete with Tesco), as in Sunderland selling the land to a private company to develop is an exercise in stupidity an futility. Well at least we may get the cable car!!

The past few weeks there has been a consultaion as to what people want there. I am not a town planner so am not claiming to be an expert on this process but shouldn’t this have been done before closing the whole place down, or is it just to hide the fact that in 8 months absolutly bugger all has actually been done.

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