clint van damme
Well-Known Member
Taxpayers to foot £630k shop lease surrender
The cabinet member in charge has defended the deal
Wouldn't you expect a lease for that length of time covering a city centre property to have a clause in it allowing the council to move them if needed. City centre redevelopment is hardly an unheard of concept.
Also if they're £60K in arrears aren't they in breach? Kick them out!
It'll be back to the original plan, views of the cathedral from the Lower Precinct.It’s a calculation that an improved city centre will bring more than £600k or whatever’s increased business over the next 50 years.
Hard to say until it’s done, though I do think what they did by the peeping Tom clock has worked well so maybe.
More concerned with the pig headed refusal to accept city centres aren’t going back to how they were TBH.
It'll be back to the original plan, views of the cathedral from the Lower Precinct.
Well... apart from some loons decided to build Cathedral Lanes!
I know you disagree but hey, I'll still repeat itWent into town on Saturday and actually think it’s coming together. Cant help but fee that by the time it does half the shops will have shut mind.
I know you disagree but hey, I'll still repeat itReally wish they'd taken the opportunity to demolish Cathedral Lanes, and revert to the open views of the cathedral. Stick the restaurant quarter in Spon Street, and encourage independent restaurants to make it vaguely unique to Coventry. Failing that, as you say, we're losing / lost BHS / Debenhams etc, so find an area of the precinct for the restaurants.
That being said, I remember their Millenium redevelopments being hamstrung by Sainsbury's refusing to move out, so if the aesthetics work and it improves the city centre, I'm all for a bigger vision than the piecemeal developments the Millenium changes ended up being, when they really had a chance to do something then, too.
I agree with getting rid of it. I find the council nauseating in how they pick their battles. I recall them commencing court proceedings (through a company which they owned) against a Coventry SME a few years ago, for a not dissimilar sum. They take a different approach to jewellery shops owned by international conglomerates.
I know you disagree but hey, I'll still repeat itReally wish they'd taken the opportunity to demolish Cathedral Lanes, and revert to the open views of the cathedral. Stick the restaurant quarter in Spon Street, and encourage independent restaurants to make it vaguely unique to Coventry. Failing that, as you say, we're losing / lost BHS / Debenhams etc, so find an area of the precinct for the restaurants.
That being said, I remember their Millenium redevelopments being hamstrung by Sainsbury's refusing to move out, so if the aesthetics work and it improves the city centre, I'm all for a bigger vision than the piecemeal developments the Millenium changes ended up being, when they really had a chance to do something then, too.
Taxpayers to foot £630k shop lease surrender
The cabinet member in charge has defended the dealwww.coventrytelegraph.net
I know you disagree but hey, I'll still repeat itReally wish they'd taken the opportunity to demolish Cathedral Lanes, and revert to the open views of the cathedral. Stick the restaurant quarter in Spon Street, and encourage independent restaurants to make it vaguely unique to Coventry. Failing that, as you say, we're losing / lost BHS / Debenhams etc, so find an area of the precinct for the restaurants.
That being said, I remember their Millenium redevelopments being hamstrung by Sainsbury's refusing to move out, so if the aesthetics work and it improves the city centre, I'm all for a bigger vision than the piecemeal developments the Millenium changes ended up being, when they really had a chance to do something then, too.
The view of the cathedral never actually existed beyond artists impressions as they had shops/shacks in front of it before CL (though they didn't intrude as much and were much shorter so you could see more of the spire behind)
Behind the temporary shops there was a much taller building, a municpal canteen I think? And before there was a ramp there was a wide staircase in exactly the same position.
Got to cover their pay rise somehow.Council tax going up a whopping 6% apparently.
That's the same scaffolding that's still in place now isn't it? I get the feeling that job has slightly overran.Behind the temporary shops there was a much taller building, a municpal canteen I think? And before there was a ramp there was a wide staircase in exactly the same position.
Corrosive!!That's the same scaffolding that's still in place now isn't it? I get the feeling that job has slightly overran.
Cathedral lanes was supposed to bring in silly money too.It’s a calculation that an improved city centre will bring more than £600k or whatever’s increased business over the next 50 years.
Hard to say until it’s done, though I do think what they did by the peeping Tom clock has worked well so maybe.
More concerned with the pig headed refusal to accept city centres aren’t going back to how they were TBH.
Cathedral lanes was supposed to bring in silly money too.
Planners haven’t got a fucking clue.
City centres are a dying concept.
Agree. Don’t know how Cathedral Lanes is doing but it’s nice to see the types of restaurants they’ve brought to the city.
Been discussed before but I think the restaurants would have babe better in the Primark building and cathedral lanes should have been totalled
Cathedral lanes was supposed to bring in silly money too.
Planners haven’t got a fucking clue.
City centres are a dying concept.
Been discussed before but I think the restaurants would have babe better in the Primark building and cathedral lanes should have been totalled
Football stadiumSo what would we put in the city centre?
Skate park/play area?
Park?
Spaces people can WFH away from home?
Giant Amazon drone warehouses?
Just make it another bit of the city that happens to have nice big buildings in?
tbf I wouldn't do away with retail comnpletely, there's still a place and things like the market are actually pretty good as they go - keep that. Reinvigorate the arcade by where Argos is, and keep the ethos of independent shops, but try and make it less... scummy. Connect Spon Street to the rest of the centre, make a proper heritage trail between the buildings that are still there, and do your best to maximise space around them. Try and make the pubs around them slightly better calibre than the end up, maybe contract the city centre a little, too - it's quite wide reaching but, also tbf, where the train station is kind of limits that, as that end would be dead with nothing there, but the majority of stuff is the other side.So what would we put in the city centre?
Skate park/play area?
Park?
Spaces people can WFH away from home?
Giant Amazon drone warehouses?
Just make it another bit of the city that happens to have nice big buildings in?
Yes the market stands alone , pretty useful if enough poeple are drawn into town .tbf I wouldn't do away with retail comnpletely, there's still a place and things like the market are actually pretty good as they go - keep that. Reinvigorate the arcade by where Argos is, and keep the ethos of independent shops, but try and make it less... scummy. Connect Spon Street to the rest of the centre, make a proper heritage trail between the buildings that are still there, and do your best to maximise space around them. Try and make the pubs around them slightly better calibre than the end up, maybe contract the city centre a little, too - it's quite wide reaching but, also tbf, where the train station is kind of limits that, as that end would be dead with nothing there, but the majority of stuff is the other side.
I actually think the space is pretty close to being... alright, but it maybe needs a gamble of low rents for a good few years, to try and establish it as a destination - that wouldn't happen instantly! Low rents might give independent businesses a chance of taking a gamble, too, which would at least make it distinct.
There's an impending issue with West Orchards if Debenhams really go pop - there's three floors worth of space gone, there. Maybe they have to beg John Lewis (the only retailer like that?) to come in if needs be. Or turn that into a massive soft play area for adults!
tbf I wouldn't do away with retail comnpletely, there's still a place and things like the market are actually pretty good as they go - keep that. Reinvigorate the arcade by where Argos is, and keep the ethos of independent shops, but try and make it less... scummy. Connect Spon Street to the rest of the centre, make a proper heritage trail between the buildings that are still there, and do your best to maximise space around them. Try and make the pubs around them slightly better calibre than the end up, maybe contract the city centre a little, too - it's quite wide reaching but, also tbf, where the train station is kind of limits that, as that end would be dead with nothing there, but the majority of stuff is the other side.
I actually think the space is pretty close to being... alright, but it maybe needs a gamble of low rents for a good few years, to try and establish it as a destination - that wouldn't happen instantly! Low rents might give independent businesses a chance of taking a gamble, too, which would at least make it distinct.
There's an impending issue with West Orchards if Debenhams really go pop - there's three floors worth of space gone, there. Maybe they have to beg John Lewis (the only retailer like that?) to come in if needs be. Or turn that into a massive soft play area for adults!
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?