Plans to turn Oldham's old Town Hall into £10m leisure complex with eight seat screen cinema
Eight screen cinema - high end restaurants and cafes - A new facade, creating new entrances and a foyer to the building, would
be highlighted with a 'light box' made of translucent glass offering
impressive views over a new pedestrianised square. Impressive??? You've got to be easily pleased if you think that a view of an abandoned store and the frickin featureless wall of the benighted Spingles shopping Mall
shop is impressive! Pedestrianised because there ain't no parking
spaces. None?? Nope! not a one! The existing car park will be scrapped
to make way for the extension,
with room only for four disabled parking bays and 27 cycle spots, and a
drop-off and pick-up point.
The
plans show a 1,000-seat eight-screen cinema, four
restaurants/cafes and a new outdoor area to act as a stage for social
and community events. Patrons will include four Blue badge holders and
twenty-seven members of the 'Sturmey-Archer Lycra Lovers & Pedal
pushers Club' By the by, has anyone ever seen twenty-seven cyclists
descend on a motion picture palace at any one time. Just asking! I bet they'd be fun to sit next to on a wet night in January! As for four disabled drivers turning up at the same time, that is sheer fantasy.
A translucent glass extension to the Clegg Street side will provide a
new entrance, allowing cafes to spill out on to a new public area. The
Clegg Street side will be retained under the glass wall, protecting it.
The council-owned building has been the subject of several development proposals over the years, none of them acted upon. This scheme will probably have the same dismal outcome after dragging along for ages with no progress.
Planners say the transformation will act as a catalyst to town centre regeneration and economic improvement. It's a fair bet the town centre is by now too far gone to be revived.
Who is going to develop the site? Who is going to finance it? The site does not appear to be large enough to accommodate all the fanciful dreams and £10 Million seems rather a low sum for such a grandiose scheme.
Is there anybody or any company with the spare cash and balls to invest that sort of money, time and effort into providing an ill thought out scheme for the sorry semi-derelict town that Oldham has become. This remember is the town that at one time had at least twenty-two cinemas (that we know of - maybe YOU know of more).
What do the fucktits in the Tower Of Shite have to say??? 'Who needs car-parking?' Metroshite will be handily placed on Union Street. Handy for whom???
The people of Hathershaw- Fitton Hill - Abbeyhills - Roundthorn - Clarksfield - Lees - Springhead - Grotton - All the villages of the Republic Of Saddleworth - Greenacres - Watersheddings - Moorside - Scouthead - Sholver - Royton - to name but a few! Or are they all destined to have their own tram service?? Nah! Town Hall will have fell down before that could be achieved.
We'll believe it when we see it!! More smoke and mirrors from Jimmy 'The Flannel' Pudden-Face.
Note the picture - There are so few people in the town these days that extras from Ghosthunters had to be drafted in. A rum crowd they are too - the guy in the centre has apparently been stabbed in the lower leg and is bleeding heavily. The wee guy on the right (probably Diddy Dave Hibbert) appears to have discovered the Stargate Portal and is about to step through and return to civilisation. Notice too, that with only £10 Million to play with there was not enough cash left to replace the mouldering wooden windows that have graced disgraced the building for far too long.
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