ECCOnoob Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 (edited) 3 hours ago, pfifes said: More of town needs to converted to housing. Many parts of the city centre already is. As is happening in changing cities across the world. But that's followed by lots of bitching and whining on forums like this with people demanding bring back Rackhams.... bring back Cole Brothers.... bring back Debenhams..... We need more shops..... It's all stupid cheap apartments... Who wants to live in the city centre..... People complain the city is run down, so council do improvements to public spaces. Then everyone slags it off as a waste of money or whines about all the disruptions caused by the works. People complain the city doesn't get investment, so council spends government grants on big developments and regeneration. But then everyone whines it just looks boring... or declares no one can afford to use pretentious cafes...or screams whose going to pay them prices in the upmarket shops... Councils can't seem to do right for doing wrong. As for the original post, seems our resident forum Thread Starter has once again fallen for the typical over hysterical nonsense story from a certain type of news source. Council erroneously send out template letter to couple's address because they thought the property was unoccupied. Mistake noted. Council retracted the document and apologised. End of story. Edited February 16 by ECCOnoob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redruby Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 3 hours ago, ECCOnoob said: Many parts of the city centre already is. As is happening in changing cities across the world. But that's followed by lots of bitching and whining on forums like this with people demanding bring back Rackhams.... bring back Cole Brothers.... bring back Debenhams..... We need more shops..... It's all stupid cheap apartments... Who wants to live in the city centre..... People complain the city is run down, so council do improvements to public spaces. Then everyone slags it off as a waste of money or whines about all the disruptions caused by the works. People complain the city doesn't get investment, so council spends government grants on big developments and regeneration. But then everyone whines it just looks boring... or declares no one can afford to use pretentious cafes...or screams whose going to pay them prices in the upmarket shops... Councils can't seem to do right for doing wrong. As for the original post, seems our resident forum Thread Starter has once again fallen for the typical over hysterical nonsense story from a certain type of news source. Council erroneously send out template letter to couple's address because they thought the property was unoccupied. Mistake noted. Council retracted the document and apologised. End of story. I partly agree in the sense that the old shopping heyday of Sheffield is over and we are not going to have the old shops back. And more of town needs to converted to housing. But the council are making it worse than it needs to be with the stupid vanity projects like the containers and flower beds on Fargate. And trying to meddle to stop people going to Meadowhall and the other various daft initiatives to try to get people into town. If anyone from council reads this, then please get the message that town is horrible in many places, beggars, drunks, drug use and run down areas. The simplest and best solution is to get more housing in town and let it regenerate from there. All the other stuff like getting people to shop there instead of Meadowhall by charging for parking and getting more offices in town won’t work, those ships have long since sailed and the Council needs to be more forward looking and proactive about getting housing into town which will help solve a lot of problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prettytom Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 25 minutes ago, redruby said: I partly agree in the sense that the old shopping heyday of Sheffield is over and we are not going to have the old shops back. And more of town needs to converted to housing. But the council are making it worse than it needs to be with the stupid vanity projects like the containers and flower beds on Fargate. And trying to meddle to stop people going to Meadowhall and the other various daft initiatives to try to get people into town. They’ll be putting a stupid fountain on Farage next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfifes Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 4 hours ago, Prettytom said: They’ll be putting a stupid fountain on Farage next On Farage? The will be interesting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfifes Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, pfifes said: On Farage? That will be interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prettytom Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, pfifes said: On Farage? The will be interesting Best autocorrect ever😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfifes Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On the subject of Farage, apparently he has been has been key to building Reform's TikTok profile https://www.politico.eu/article/british-politicians-ditch-tiktok-nigel-farage-move-in/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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