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Sheffield Retail Quarter (ex-"Sevenstone") MEGATHREAD


Should there be an independent review of SCC's performance?  

142 members have voted

  1. 1. Should there be an independent review of SCC's performance?

    • Yes- it would be worth assessing SCC's performance
      108
    • No - not needed / whats the point?
      19
    • Not bothered really
      15


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so sibon you dont like the truth this council is a joke lets knock down don valley and rush a application through to build a school meanwhile a real job creation is held up again and again and again . and sevenstone well ill be suprised if its ever built

 

When did you last use the DVS, ormester?

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Why do Sheffield council keep getting taken to the cleaners why are paying once again to compulsory purchase property properties that we provided developers the funds to buy a few years ago.

 

There was some council bloke on Radio Sheffield, yesterday morning, claiming that if SCC and the old developers cannot agree a price for the land, then there will be some independent adjudicator who will set it. Due to the turndown in property prices, he expected such a price to be lower than the developer paid for it. Whether it will work out that way, I don't know. It was just his take on it.

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Why do Sheffield council keep getting taken to the cleaners why are paying once again to compulsory purchase property properties that we provided developers the funds to buy a few years ago.

 

Is it because they are idiots and only employ incompetents who happen to share their political idiocy.

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<...>This is where the council have now come unstuck - Hammerson evidently have a contract to build that SCC are trying to break but Hammerson are still exercising their rights under the contract, even though there is very little evidence of expenditure on Hammerson's part.<...>
Let me have an (fairly well-) educated guess: the Council did not put in get-out clauses for failure by Hammerson to deliver at milestones?

 

"Public sector and contract negotiations"...Oh, the stories I could tell! :roll::hihi:

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There should be some sort of council equivalent to the Recall Bill that has just been brought in for MP's, only to be invoked for the most extreme cases of face-palm-incompetence such as this Sevenstone farce.

 

Its actually gone beyond face palm, we're in bridge pinch territory now http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqwh56v2ua1qzr3qyo1_400.jpg

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8. Can't wait to see the demolition of those listed buildings like the Bethel Chapel.

 

People say Sheffield has no interesting old buildings, that's because there's a regular cycle of knocking them down before they get to be properly old.

 

Fully agree with you here, alot of the buildings they plan to knock down have beautiful character, they just need restoring/revamping. For example the old salvation army citadel, The buildings oposite which create the sort of triangle shape on that corner, and the buildings where henrys bar currently is. Why not incorporate them into the design and get rid of ugly buildings in that area like john lewis and the hotel block above casbah? SCC have an obsesion of clearing away sheffields history. look on 'picturesheffield.org. to see what architecture has been removed and what has replaced it and you will be disgusted.

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Sevenstones does come with a bit of history.

 

"Biggest step forward’ for Sheffield’s £600m Sevenstone retail site, says Scriven"

 

"The long-delayed Sevenstone scheme was put on hold in 2008 but action needs to be taken before the purchase orders expire in July.

 

Last year Sheffield Council drew up plans for a £20m fund to secure the site, which stretches from Barker’s Pool to Pinstone Street and The Moor, but the Government’s £10m contribution was suspended because of spending cuts.

 

Now Hammerson has agreed to contribute £10m to buy up the land, and will pay the interest on a further £10 that will be funded by council borrowing."

 

Date March 2011

 

 

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/business/biggest-step-forward-for-sheffield-s-600m-sevenstone-retail-site-says-scriven-1-3182672

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