50million Olympic Legacy Park for former Don Valley

[muckymurphy 10]

All down to council palm greasing, someone will have recieved a good backhand for getting this through

 

glad i didnt say that.

 

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No they won't - if you're not convinced you could examine the books of course.

 

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/finance/supplier-payments.html

 

backhanders are declared are they??????? :loopy:

 

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shall i schedule the demolition for around 2040 then?

[roosterboost 10]

Replacing a stadium with a...erm, stadium?

 

That would be like knocking down the city centre and replacing it with Sevenstones. Oh hang on!

 

Its more like closing down the old market place and replacing it with another much more expensive one that will be paid for by doubling the number of folk who shop there.

Edited October 1, 2014 by roosterboost

[Penistone999 10]

Don't worry - as a resident of Barnsley you won't have to pay owt.

 

I did last time though and did for years thanks to SCC`s stupidity

[Alien52 10]

This could be a good location for an international event in the future.

Perhaps something to do with students or such like ?

[Penistone999 10]

This could be a good location for an international event in the future.

Perhaps something to do with students or such like ?

 

:hihi:

[Mr Bloom 10]

No they won't - if you're not convinced you could examine the books of course.

 

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/finance/supplier-payments.html

 

"Favours" don't tend to appear on the books.

[janlizzy 10]

So the council is to spend 10 million on a stadium site that has just been demolished even though it is still being paid for?? and we are still facing more cuts to services,I think its lunacy and should be stopped.

[Fogey 10]

However certain it is, I have to admit that I half expect it to remain as nothing more than a pile of rubble.

[hackey lad 3,949]

All down to council palm greasing, someone will have recieved a good backhand for getting this through

 

is the former sports minister Richard Caborn involved with this ?

[Guest sibon]

It is funny really. We have loads of threads along the lines of "Why isn't Sheffield as good as Manchester/Leeds?". Why isn't our arena as good? Why aren't the roads as good? Whinge, whinge, compare, compare, drag the city down.

 

Then the council attracts external funding for a fantastically ambitious project. Something that could transform the east end. How do the forum doom mongers respond? Whinge, whinge, whine whine, unfounded allegations, whinge.

 

It looks a brilliant idea to me. It will sit really well with Ice Sheffield and EIS.

[hackey lad 3,949]

It is funny really. We have loads of threads along the lines of "Why isn't Sheffield as good as Manchester/Leeds?". Why isn't our arena as good? Why aren't the roads as good? Whinge, whinge, compare, compare, drag the city down.

 

Then the council attracts external funding for a fantastically ambitious project. Something that could transform the east end. How do the forum doom mongers respond? Whinge, whinge, whine whine, unfounded allegations, whinge.

 

It looks a brilliant idea to me. It will sit really well with Ice Sheffield and EIS.

 

probably because its been done before and strangely enough on the same site

[the_bloke 17]

Probably have a more enthusiastic response if the tax payer wasn't still paying for the one they just knocked down.