Samo
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I have heard that, lovely as it is, the place is not well run.
We went to Fargo today. It was very nice, but unusually quiet.
Supposed to be a barbecue and deckchairs and a bouncy castle, but when we got there, there was just the bouncy castle.
Stayed there 5 and a half hours though. We're going to do the brewery, but left it too late and it was closed by the time we decided to give it a go.
Agree.I have heard that, lovely as it is, the place is not well run.
Agree.
When you talk to the store owners about stuff, half the time they don't seem to know what is going on.
Maybe a job for the Fisher/Seppala dream team.Yep, interesting, alternative, refreshing but poorly managed and that is a real shame because ultimately without good management it will fail.
Maybe a job for the Fisher/Seppala dream team.
Do they need a Fargo style initiative in another county tens of miles away?
The whole city is just a waste of time. No reason to go there. And, to top it off, the 'LONDON' wasps have taken over the ricoh because coventry can't afford the rent on their own. The best thing to come to Coventry in recent years though is Jodi Jones. MAN. MYTH. LEGEND.
Absolutely agreed. I moved out of Coventry years ago to Rugby. Its a small town of around 50,000 with an out of town development called Junction1 Elliots Field that attracts loads for people from Daventry, Leicester, Leamington, Coventry.Correct - it's the Centre. Places like Earlsdon, Eastern green are pleasant enough. I'm worried wants happening in Allesley Village but yes there are
What coventry has never ever attempted to do is encourage professionals into the centre. It's very well wrecking green belt land around the windmill hotel but why bother? No one who lives there will go to coventry to shop. I work with people who've worked in coventry for years but never set foot in the centre.
Hi.Hi Jodi.
The downside is that Rugby town centre, after holding up relatively well compared to similar sized towns, is in danger of ending up the pound shop and charity shop hovel of others as shops like M&S move out...Absolutely agreed. I moved out of Coventry years ago to Rugby. Its a small town of around 50,000 with an out of town development called Junction1 Elliots Field that attracts loads for people from Daventry, Leicester, Leamington, Coventry.
That is absolutely true. Pure displacement. However I don't know what Coventry's excuse is. Big population which deserve far better than what they're being served up inside the ring road. Still, the ever increasing student population will solve all the problems.The downside is that Rugby town centre, after holding up relatively well compared to similar sized towns, is in danger of ending up the pound shop and charity shop hovel of others as shops like M&S move out...
The downside is that Rugby town centre, after holding up relatively well compared to similar sized towns, is in danger of ending up the pound shop and charity shop hovel of others as shops like M&S move out...
No way near as bad. Sure, it had had a decline, but was holding up relatively well compared to, say, Nuneaton. The loss of M&S in the town centre has been a kick in the teeth however (along with Argos, although that's arguably unrelated) and probably means the likes of Dunelm are a bit more fragile there.In Danger? It's been like that for years.
It's again disjointed though isn't it (on a wider level). We get bigger cars while more of us have cars, so the number of people using a car goes down.So many car parks have small spaces now, if you have a car that is a little bit wide you are struggling to get outObviously the closer together the more spaces and the more money!
It's ridiculous the amount of people who have really big cars.So many car parks have small spaces now, if you have a car that is a little bit wide you are struggling to get outObviously the closer together the more spaces and the more money!
Totally agree.It's again disjointed though isn't it (on a wider level). We get bigger cars while more of us have cars, so the number of people using a car goes down.
On a national level it'd be kind of interesting if they went Japan-lite, and offered massive tax incentives to people who had smaller cars.
It was emissions. Think it's changed again now, but my car's still assessed under the old system, so I don't really knowTotally agree.
Have we not still got that rule that was brought in whereby you pay less tax if your car is under a certain CC?
It was emissions. Think it's changed again now, but my car's still assessed under the old system, so I don't really know
It'd be more interesting if things went truly hardcore though, as per Japan.
And I say that as someone who likes big-ish cars but yeah, I don't really need it. If they forced me into having to head for a smaller car, so be it. But of more importance would be to offer incentives for physical size. My Mitsubishi Colt was just about as wide as my current car, so I still couldn't get it in old old garages!
No way near as bad. Sure, it had had a decline, but was holding up relatively well compared to, say, Nuneaton. The loss of M&S in the town centre has been a kick in the teeth however (along with Argos, although that's arguably unrelated) and probably means the likes of Dunelm are a bit more fragile there.
Now when you consider they have a relatively new town centre Asda, and a nice library building, it seems rather disjointed to then abandon the town centre. And if we're talking out of centre shopping parks then Coventry can do that too, but that's not really the issue.
Absolutely right about Elliot's Field being a nightmare btw. What planning genius let that happen? Not only that, but the spaces are rather small. I dunno, I guess we'll see but I can't help but feel they've managed short term gain for long term pain, once the lustre of newness wears off. It stops me going into the centre even, too, as the queue's all the way back to the roundabout by the town hall.
So I wouldn't mark Coventry out as exceptional, particularly. In smaller scale Rugby has exactly the same issues... with even less places to eat out! What they both need really is... strategy.
I have one of these. Hyundai.It was emissions. Think it's changed again now, but my car's still assessed under the old system, so I don't really know
It'd be more interesting if things went truly hardcore though, as per Japan.
And I say that as someone who likes big-ish cars but yeah, I don't really need it. If they forced me into having to head for a smaller car, so be it. But of more importance would be to offer incentives for physical size. My Mitsubishi Colt was just about as wide as my current car, so I still couldn't get it in old old garages!
That’s been the problem with a lot of town/city centre redevelopments, they’ve been to narrow. It’s let’s do this corner here, a few years later let’s do this corner here, rinse and repeat. Councils end up chasing their tails because there’s no master plan for a complete area, they just keep papering over the cracks where and when they appear with no plan on what happens next. I know Coventry City centre was conceived as a master plan due to rebuilding after the war but let’s face it Coventry was a guinea pig for this type of thinking and the developers had no way of knowing about things like the motorcar becoming so dominant. It worked well when originally built but has dated badly in part because of the changing world.
I have one of these. Hyundai.
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Definitely a small car, but I can get 5 people in.
Sometimes when I am driving and see some of these drivers in these big cars, it's almost as if they are at the top of the stairs and I am at the bottom and I do find that many feel they are superior as a result of being 'bigger' and will refuse to give way and almost bully you into YOU doing so, because you have no other alternative other than to give way to them.
Pollution is still a big issue. Space is still a big issue.
Encourage smaller cars. Very simple really.
I park at the Belgrade Plaza car park and often the cars are so big they stick out into the pedestrian walkway and you actually have to walk into the path of cars to get round them.
Can't see building bigger spaces will work because of the aforementioned lack of space issue.
It's a penis extension.It's ridiculous the amount of people who have really big cars.
Fine if you need one, but it just seems to be a status symbol to some
While spaces do seem to have got narrower, your average estate car has undoubtedly got wider and longer.when they can't fit an average estate car without them sticking out there's a bit of an issue.
While spaces do seem to have got narrower, your average estate car has undoubtedly got wider and longer.
Compare a Cortina estate to a Mondeo estate...
It's very worrying, but I kind of want a Hillman Hunter. GLS mind.Probably a good 20-30 inch difference.
I do see a Cortina Estate driving about with some massive alloys but dont think the wife would allow one
It's again disjointed though isn't it (on a wider level). We get bigger cars while more of us have cars, so the number of people using a car goes down.
On a national level it'd be kind of interesting if they went Japan-lite, and offered massive tax incentives to people who had smaller cars.
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