Bradford Council leader's call over £1 Odeon sale offer (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Or how about restore it yourselves!

You've allowed it to become dilapidated and some sabotage is involved.

Birmingham has an Odeon the same as ours and on the other side a small church where our Cathedral is.

In between ?, the Bullring shopping ring and centre, which we have the vast space to emulate!

And shockingly, the Brum one is basically the back-end of ours with no wonderfully crafted Moorish architectural merit!

And amazingly a Bradford Street runs adjacent to it ..

the council leader and George Galloway working towards the same outcome, who would have ever believed it. Next thing you know theyll be opening Christmas presents from each other.

On a more serious note i think its the most logical way of getting some use of the building for Bradford council to acquire it. I read yesterday that the council have a significant underspend again this year. May be some cash can be released to help restore the odeon.

the state of the odeon is completely the councils fault. if you or i owned a shop in a prime spot in town and allowed it to be sabotaged and go to ruin we would be fined and told to sort it out. thats what the council should have done from the moment borgs pics of the cut pipes were published. the forrestation on the roof was cleared once but thats not enough, the whole lot needed a tidy up. whats the betting on this useless pathetic council missing the boat as usual and wasting so much time the opportunity is lost and the odeon sold on the open market (i would'nt be surprised for those fools to buy it then though, at full price) leaving us open to new plans for a ridiculous new building nobody really wants. find some urgency bfd council and grow a pair, then do what you are elected to do, which in case you forget is to do what the people want not what YOU decide we want.

Stop messing about David Green get it bought, if you do not the HCA will sell it to a Developer who like past Victoria Place development will get no where and in the end a site like Westfield will result.
Yes funding will be required and no doubt a lot, it was got for the Alhambra which was in a very bad state years ago.
Come on David earn the £50k + you get, find the money in Bradford, the Government, Lottery, EU etc. etc.
Buy the building set up a Trust of some sort put BORG and others on it to restore and run it, lots of interest from the public at last weeks meeting who want this.

Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

david morley wrote:
Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

Because that's what we need. then, you are from Morley!

david morley wrote:
Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

Because that's what we need. then, you are Morley!

david morley wrote:
Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

Because that's what we need. then, you are Morley!

david morley wrote:
Just buy it for the £1 then use the money to knock the eyesore down. Will leave a nice empty space that will fit in nicely with the rest of out town sorry City "centre"

Because that's what we need, then, you are Morley!

johnhem wrote:
the state of the odeon is completely the councils fault. if you or i owned a shop in a prime spot in town and allowed it to be sabotaged and go to ruin we would be fined and told to sort it out. thats what the council should have done from the moment borgs pics of the cut pipes were published. the forrestation on the roof was cleared once but thats not enough, the whole lot needed a tidy up. whats the betting on this useless pathetic council missing the boat as usual and wasting so much time the opportunity is lost and the odeon sold on the open market (i would'nt be surprised for those fools to buy it then though, at full price) leaving us open to new plans for a ridiculous new building nobody really wants. find some urgency bfd council and grow a pair, then do what you are elected to do, which in case you forget is to do what the people want not what YOU decide we want.

I would disagree with your opening statement, the building was owned by others for many years, let's give the council a chance with it.

Albion. wrote:

johnhem wrote:
the state of the odeon is completely the councils fault. if you or i owned a shop in a prime spot in town and allowed it to be sabotaged and go to ruin we would be fined and told to sort it out. thats what the council should have done from the moment borgs pics of the cut pipes were published. the forrestation on the roof was cleared once but thats not enough, the whole lot needed a tidy up. whats the betting on this useless pathetic council missing the boat as usual and wasting so much time the opportunity is lost and the odeon sold on the open market (i would'nt be surprised for those fools to buy it then though, at full price) leaving us open to new plans for a ridiculous new building nobody really wants. find some urgency bfd council and grow a pair, then do what you are elected to do, which in case you forget is to do what the people want not what YOU decide we want.

I would disagree with your opening statement, the building was owned by others for many years, let's give the council a chance with it.

Your right, but the Council stood back and let Yorkshire Forward just let the building decay.
Also Bradford Regeneration were involved and the Council were in on that I think.
As for giving the Council chance there is not time on the side of messing about, they have a few months not years to decide to take the offer up.
HCA made it clear at last weeks meeting the deal is for this financial year, that is 5 months.

Albion. wrote:

johnhem wrote:
the state of the odeon is completely the councils fault. if you or i owned a shop in a prime spot in town and allowed it to be sabotaged and go to ruin we would be fined and told to sort it out. thats what the council should have done from the moment borgs pics of the cut pipes were published. the forrestation on the roof was cleared once but thats not enough, the whole lot needed a tidy up. whats the betting on this useless pathetic council missing the boat as usual and wasting so much time the opportunity is lost and the odeon sold on the open market (i would'nt be surprised for those fools to buy it then though, at full price) leaving us open to new plans for a ridiculous new building nobody really wants. find some urgency bfd council and grow a pair, then do what you are elected to do, which in case you forget is to do what the people want not what YOU decide we want.

I would disagree with your opening statement, the building was owned by others for many years, let's give the council a chance with it.

Your right, but the Council stood back and let Yorkshire Forward just let the building decay.
Also Bradford Regeneration were involved and the Council were in on that I think.
As for giving the Council chance there is not time on the side of messing about, they have a few months not years to decide to take the offer up.
HCA made it clear at last weeks meeting the deal is for this financial year, that is 5 months.

whats to disagree with albion? i did'nt say it was owned by the council, just allowed to deteriate by them not taking action against the owners. if your prime site shop has a rotting frontage they will make you tidy it up, even do it themselves and bill you, and quite rightly. so WHY did'nt they do that with the previous owners?
yorks backward and bfd degeneration stuffed us good and proper and the council allowed it so now they should buy it for that £1 and get on with the job of making something useful from it. is that a good enough chance for the council to do something?
joedavid, we both know these fools in the council could'nt organise the proverbial without a meering to arrange a meeting to form a committee to arrange a meeting to find out which way is forward and which way is back......... then they will get consultants in because they have no idea what they are doing.
my next vote for this council will be a vote of NO CONFIDENCE.

johnhem wrote:
whats to disagree with albion? i did'nt say it was owned by the council, just allowed to deteriate by them not taking action against the owners. if your prime site shop has a rotting frontage they will make you tidy it up, even do it themselves and bill you, and quite rightly. so WHY did'nt they do that with the previous owners?
yorks backward and bfd degeneration stuffed us good and proper and the council allowed it so now they should buy it for that £1 and get on with the job of making something useful from it. is that a good enough chance for the council to do something?
joedavid, we both know these fools in the council could'nt organise the proverbial without a meering to arrange a meeting to form a committee to arrange a meeting to find out which way is forward and which way is back......... then they will get consultants in because they have no idea what they are doing.
my next vote for this council will be a vote of NO CONFIDENCE.

Well if it wasn't theirs, it isn't COMPLETELY their fault.

johnhem wrote:
whats to disagree with albion? i did'nt say it was owned by the council, just allowed to deteriate by them not taking action against the owners. if your prime site shop has a rotting frontage they will make you tidy it up, even do it themselves and bill you, and quite rightly. so WHY did'nt they do that with the previous owners?
yorks backward and bfd degeneration stuffed us good and proper and the council allowed it so now they should buy it for that £1 and get on with the job of making something useful from it. is that a good enough chance for the council to do something?
joedavid, we both know these fools in the council could'nt organise the proverbial without a meering to arrange a meeting to form a committee to arrange a meeting to find out which way is forward and which way is back......... then they will get consultants in because they have no idea what they are doing.
my next vote for this council will be a vote of NO CONFIDENCE.

Yes John a lot of mistakes in the past, but we are where we are today and we got to forget and move on, if David Green will let us.
Consultants, gosh enough of good ones of them at the public meeting last week.
As I said needs the offer from HCA taking up and making something to put the building in public control and let them get on with the restoration. Council to get out and about to get the money in. They found £30m for the center park and fountains.

I have a great idea, why not get a panel of the Bradford public to get together and come up with some fund raising ideas (Volunteers) We could invite some celebs for some input or even get a Television company involved with a project that they could film in return for some funding. I'm sure that there is money that can be drawn from the European development fund. I think it could be made into a confrence hall plus Film and Media center with the present Film and media museum moving into the Odeon building freeing up the other building for sale or rent. The Odeon would look great with the same sort of structure as the Alhambra. Some details inside the building could show how Bradford was involved in the history of film making. Also using pictures of the acts who graced this famous hall. Stop the talk lets get the ball moving and start to rejuvenate one of Bradford's best land marks and asset.

Albion. wrote:

johnhem wrote:
whats to disagree with albion? i did'nt say it was owned by the council, just allowed to deteriate by them not taking action against the owners. if your prime site shop has a rotting frontage they will make you tidy it up, even do it themselves and bill you, and quite rightly. so WHY did'nt they do that with the previous owners?
yorks backward and bfd degeneration stuffed us good and proper and the council allowed it so now they should buy it for that £1 and get on with the job of making something useful from it. is that a good enough chance for the council to do something?
joedavid, we both know these fools in the council could'nt organise the proverbial without a meering to arrange a meeting to form a committee to arrange a meeting to find out which way is forward and which way is back......... then they will get consultants in because they have no idea what they are doing.
my next vote for this council will be a vote of NO CONFIDENCE.

Well if it wasn't theirs, it isn't COMPLETELY their fault.

who were the councillors that allowed themselves to be fobbed off with less than a half tour?
who was it that failed to act and make the owners keep it presentable?
who was it that gave reports to this rag that were proved to be very large lies (the state of the insides), not all that was down to MUD marshall.
oh yeah, that'd be bradford councillors then.
get off your ar$e bfd council and DO something good for bradford, or is failure too ingrained by now?

Might I suggest to all on here arguing about who is to blame, to take the time to have a look at the following link:
http://savetheodeon.
wordpress.com/heroes
-and-villains/

I think it will clear up a lot of points raised here, and, I am sure, will definitely draw attention to even more points for discussion!

johnhem wrote:

Albion. wrote:

johnhem wrote:
whats to disagree with albion? i did'nt say it was owned by the council, just allowed to deteriate by them not taking action against the owners. if your prime site shop has a rotting frontage they will make you tidy it up, even do it themselves and bill you, and quite rightly. so WHY did'nt they do that with the previous owners?
yorks backward and bfd degeneration stuffed us good and proper and the council allowed it so now they should buy it for that £1 and get on with the job of making something useful from it. is that a good enough chance for the council to do something?
joedavid, we both know these fools in the council could'nt organise the proverbial without a meering to arrange a meeting to form a committee to arrange a meeting to find out which way is forward and which way is back......... then they will get consultants in because they have no idea what they are doing.
my next vote for this council will be a vote of NO CONFIDENCE.

Well if it wasn't theirs, it isn't COMPLETELY their fault.

who were the councillors that allowed themselves to be fobbed off with less than a half tour?
who was it that failed to act and make the owners keep it presentable?
who was it that gave reports to this rag that were proved to be very large lies (the state of the insides), not all that was down to MUD marshall.
oh yeah, that'd be bradford councillors then.
get off your ar$e bfd council and DO something good for bradford, or is failure too ingrained by now?

It still wasn't completely their fault.

The biggest irony being we have the National Media Museum a few hundred yards away whilst this rots, this should be housing it.