Council calling McCabe's bluff re Don Valley?

[Foxy]

Isn't IKEA coming to Sheffield?
Should put us on the map.

As far as I was aware, they'd received yet another knock back from the council, though this time they'd neglected the embarrassing "Sheffield women don't want yer fancy foreign furniture..." reasoning.

Might be wrong though

 

[Jon Bon]

Or an Ikea.

Or a Next... or a ski village....

What's the difference between The Blades and Sheffield Ski Village...?

The ski village went up last year....

 

[TAMUS]

Still smells the same.

Are you Joe Ashton Sitwell he also investigated Sauna interiors

 

[alcoblade]

Or a prison .

B

Aye, always thought we were missing out on all those rapists and murderers.



UT

 

[alcoblade]

As far as I was aware, they'd received yet another knock back from the council, though this time they'd neglected the embarrassing "Sheffield women don't want yer fancy foreign furniture..." reasoning.

Might be wrong though

I think it's a myth that Ikea have been rejected. I don't think they've ever actually applied.......yet.

UTB

 

[CopenhagenBlade]

B

Aye, always thought we were missing out on all those rapists and murderers.



UT

We could have got Ched to play home games if he was in a Sheffield prison

 

[sitwell]

B

Aye, always thought we were missing out on all those rapists and murderers.



UT

Unless your a naughty boy that doesnt quite work. Ours are in s3 and s4.... and High Green... and Halfway.....and London Rd.....

 

[alcoblade]

Unless your a naughty boy that doesnt quite work. Ours are in s3 and s4.... and High Green... and Halfway.....and London Rd.....

Hmmm, I thought we just caught them like they do everywhere, and sent them to places like Doncaster? Am I missing the point?

UTB

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"Should never have been built ,Reg had a perfectly good option for them."

Still annoys me 30 years later, United would have built a mega stadium, the council could have the World Stupid Games and it wouldn't have cost the Sheffield tax payer a penny. And all because the pigs on the council couldn't stand to have the pig snout put out of joint... United getting all the limelight we can't have that.

 

[JohnDenver]

...but then again, did we want Bramall Lane Football Stadium, or a strange running track affair?

Small mercies I guess.

 

[metalblade]

Never ceases to amaze me how anything piggish get planning permission 1st time of asking.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

I think it's a myth that Ikea have been rejected. I don't think they've ever actually applied.......yet.

UTB

Didn't John Lewis complain originally about Ikea opening on the Parkway, saying they would pull out of Sheffield and the move to the new store as part of the Sevenstone development? Ah Sevenstone, another plan that went to shit (funny that the new John Lewis store was due to move to the site of the central fire station which only lasted a few years before it was deemed surplus to requirements - another big fucking waste of money).
When exactly do Sheffield ratepayers finish paying for the World Student Games fiasco? Another 20 years isn't it? Jesus wept!

 

[sitwell]

It wasnt John Lewis it was Scottish widows holding the council ( or the Sheffield public) to ransom saying if Ikea or Next are built Sevenstone wont happen.

 

[alcoblade]

It wasnt John Lewis it was Scottish widows holding the council ( or the Sheffield public) to ransom saying if Ikea or Next are built Sevenstone wont happen.

Not exactly true, but the gist is there. Scottish Widows are rumored to have threatened to hold back on the developments around the Moor which whatever the why's and wherefores, is probably sensible from there POV. They are putting at least putting their cocks on the block right now and investing in the city center when the tide is going out, both locally and economically, retail wise.

Sevenstone is Hammerson's development and there's a good chance they wont build it in any circumstance - they'd probably like an excuse to exit.

UTB

 

[alcoblade]

Didn't John Lewis complain originally about Ikea opening on the Parkway, saying they would pull out of Sheffield and the move to the new store as part of the Sevenstone development? Ah Sevenstone, another plan that went to shit (funny that the new John Lewis store was due to move to the site of the central fire station which only lasted a few years before it was deemed surplus to requirements - another big fucking waste of money).
When exactly do Sheffield ratepayers finish paying for the World Student Games fiasco? Another 20 years isn't it? Jesus wept!

And.........Breathe.



UTB

 

[SwissBlade]

Not exactly true, but the gist is there. Scottish Widows are rumored to have threatened to hold back on the developments around the Moor which whatever the why's and wherefores, is probably sensible from there POV. They are putting at least putting their cocks on the block right now and investing in the city center when the tide is going out, both locally and economically, retail wise.

Sevenstone is Hammerson's development and there's a good chance they wont build it in any circumstance - they'd probably like an excuse to exit.

UTB

I like your point alco.... But ffs your grammar is terrible tonight

There not their, repeated phrases and finally we get center instead of centre! It's just not like you!

 

[Swanseablade]

It's still Gods Country though and always will be to me.

I supposedly live in "God's Country" but not too sure about that tbh.
However, I DO know that I come from "God's COUNTY" - no doubt.
Presume that's what ya mean lad??
Long live the socialist republic of SY....

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Pity really. Goes down as another of Sheffield's 'white elephants' - just like the airport and Club Wow

A lot of athletes and youngsters still train there don't they?

Why is it that Sheffield is unable to keep people interested in the city - Manchester and Leeds always seem to overshadow us and we're always so slow to react and make a new identity for ourselves...

Although this thread is nothing to do with the Blades (why would it be, even Mic was struggling), it just makes me think that Sheffield is the forgotten city

Sheffield should have a mayor to drive the city forward.........

 

[metalblade]

............... like the clown in Doncaster

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Maybe the pig council should give a thought for the people who work there, who will be kicked onto the dole,
I remember them tossers spending 3k to install a wash hand basin.

 

[alcoblade]

I like your point alco.... But ffs your grammar is terrible tonight

There not their, repeated phrases and finally we get center instead of centre! It's just not like you!

I can spot 2 out of 3 errors, but I can't spot the "there" and "their" mistake!

Anyway, get a life....


Edit - got all 3 now. Do I get a prize? A Gold watch? A piece of your tyre?

UTB

 

[Ted Danson]

Or a Next... or a ski village....

What's the difference between The Blades and Sheffield Ski Village...?

The ski village went up last year....

They seriously need to put a roof on the ski village and reopen it, theyd make an absolute fortune if they covered it all in snow like all the indoor ones. Apparently they were going to do that until the council put their oar in and wanted something stupid like a public cablecar to be used by the public and the skiers.

 

[sitwell]

unfortunateley now it wouldjust be more firewood for the s3 arsonists

 

[IOM Blade]

Pity really. Goes down as another of Sheffield's 'white elephants' - just like the airport and Club Wow

If only the did Saturday morning/evening flights to and from the Isle of Man, it'd be worth it's weight in bloody gold!

 

[Ted Danson]

unfortunateley now it wouldjust be more firewood for the s3 arsonists

I thought the S3 Arsonists were the owners (allegedly of course)

 

[Bladesway]

People don't invest in Sheffield for many reasons. Backward looking mentality of people, council compared to Leeds and Manchester. No can do mentality to be found everywhere and ubercynics who revel in their own mediocrity and blame everyone else for the city failing to capitalise on countless opportunities. The Airport is a classic example of how you can take a good idea and really fuck it up. Runway too short, facilities which made a Somalian famine camp look 5 star. Embarrasing.

Other cities (even fucking Liverpool for crying out loud) have evolved over the past 20 years or so. I came back to Sheffield this year with a new job. The lack of forward vision and direction in the place is frightening. I took a trip down the moor and was shocked at the bombsite I was presented with. I walked back toward the tram stop near ponds forge and the amount of empty retail and office space is truly scary. I'm pleased to be a visitor and not to live there.

I know people who I work with who visit who are genuinely shocked at the state of the place. You walk 250 yards from a very nice train station and it immediatly become apparent the place is struggling. Compared to other places that have been in a similar hole it has never taken upon itself to roll its sleeves up and dig itself out. The nearest place of comparison I can think of is Wolverhampton and FFS thats a god forsaken hole of a place.

There are some very nice parts to Sheffield and I love it because its the place I was born and brought up in, but the place I live now has a better vision of the future than it appears Sheffield does. Having travelled extensively around the UK there are few "big" cities that fuck up opportunity better than Sheffield does. The buck has to stop with the administrators in the coucil. As for the Don Valley Stadium. They never built it properly so it could have an additional tier put on top so its neither use nor ornament as a football ground.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Anyone else think the threat of closure has been leaked to entice a bid from Scarborough?

We move to DVS and Lane becomes affordable housing?

No? Thought not - only asking.

Reading todays Star headline bout green field housing, and how Sheffield is 20k short in its housing stock, mmm
he would'nt do it would he, he is a blade after all , although been a non dom not totally in the loop mica in reguards to this story, anything further you could add.

 

[ghandi]

I like your point alco.... But ffs your grammar is terrible tonight

There not their, repeated phrases and finally we get center instead of centre! It's just not like you!

God another pedant!

 

[Ted Danson]

God another pedant!

Shouldnt there be a comma in there?

God, another pedant!

 

[ghandi]

People don't invest in Sheffield for many reasons. Backward looking mentality of people, council compared to Leeds and Manchester. No can do mentality to be found everywhere and ubercynics who revel in their own mediocrity and blame everyone else for the city failing to capitalise on countless opportunities. The Airport is a classic example of how you can take a good idea and really fuck it up. Runway too short, facilities which made a Somalian famine camp look 5 star. Embarrasing.

Other cities (even fucking Liverpool for crying out loud) have evolved over the past 20 years or so. I came back to Sheffield this year with a new job. The lack of forward vision and direction in the place is frightening. I took a trip down the moor and was shocked at the bombsite I was presented with. I walked back toward the tram stop near ponds forge and the amount of empty retail and office space is truly scary. I'm pleased to be a visitor and not to live there.

I know people who I work with who visit who are genuinely shocked at the state of the place. You walk 250 yards from a very nice train station and it immediatly become apparent the place is struggling. Compared to other places that have been in a similar hole it has never taken upon itself to roll its sleeves up and dig itself out. The nearest place of comparison I can think of is Wolverhampton and FFS thats a god forsaken hole of a place.

There are some very nice parts to Sheffield and I love it because its the place I was born and brought up in, but the place I live now has a better vision of the future than it appears Sheffield does. Having travelled extensively around the UK there are few "big" cities that fuck up opportunity better than Sheffield does. The buck has to stop with the administrators in the coucil. As for the Don Valley Stadium. They never built it properly so it could have an additional tier put on top so its neither use nor ornament as a football ground.

The main reason Sheffield doesn't fare as well as other cities is that for the last 40 years successive governments haven't invested in any projects in addition to determining that the we need less per head than places like Brighton. Why? Simple because there aren't any votes to be bought by in a General Election....Tories will not invest as they know they will never have an MP in Sheffield and Labour knows that they will always have all the seats bar one hence we see them both turn to places like Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham who flip flop their MPs and councils on a regular basis.