Workers get to root of Odeon weeds (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Workers get to root of Odeon weeds
7:32pm Tuesday 28th October 2008 in News By Will Kilner
A programme to improve the look of the former Odeon cinema building in Bradford city centre has started to remove weeds growing on the derelict building.
Contractors began the work yesterday on behalf of the building’s owner Yorkshire Forward.
Since buying the building in 2003, Yorkshire Forward has spent more than £60,000 on maintenance work, including weed-killing and health and safety measures.
A Yorkshire Forward spokesman said: “The clearance of the weeds from the Odeon building is part of the on-going maintenance and security of the site.
“Such work has been carried out on a number of occasions in the past and do not affect the current plans for the building.”
A planning application to demolish the existing building and replace it with a £55 million mixed-use development has now been submitted to the Council.
The New Victoria Place scheme would see the creation of the city’s first A-grade offices, apartments, bars, restaurants and cafes, around a public square.
Comments(10)
spinnekop
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8:07pm Tue 28 Oct 08
albion
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9:15pm Tue 28 Oct 08
mrs walker
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10:13pm Tue 28 Oct 08
It was basically a list of questions regarding the issues around the Odeon, which were answered by the planners, developers and a representative of Yorkshire Forward.
Buried in the waffle was a discreet implication that demolition wouldn't start until 2010 and that building would commence when the economic climate recovers....
Maybe I got the wrong idea. I'll try to find the article and post a link. You may not have seen it. It really quite annoyed me.
finemess
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10:34pm Tue 28 Oct 08
We have some tough times ahead and the council should be trimming its budget by starting with maud marshall and co and leave the odeon to a group who have Bradfords best interests at heart and an altogether more workable and impressive scheme for the restoration of the odeon in BORG!
citizen smith
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10:39pm Tue 28 Oct 08
Interesting how it's subtly referred to as a 'derelict building' in the opening paragraph.
mrs walker
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10:42pm Tue 28 Oct 08
It's the second story. I commented at length. (Not that it will make any difference to the outcome - I don't believe that Bradford local opinion has had the least influence on any of these decisions. Even the people that agree with the demolition seem to despise the replacement building. Yet we're supposed to 'get behind them and their plans'?
(They need someone to get behind them with a bull-whip, or at the very least a jelly catapult imo...)
albion
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10:53pm Tue 28 Oct 08
mrs walker wrote:Seen it, thank you very much.
Actually Editors Choice doesn't seeem to have any history, so type 'Odeon' into search.
It's the second story. I commented at length. (Not that it will make any difference to the outcome - I don't believe that Bradford local opinion has had the least influence on any of these decisions. Even the people that agree with the demolition seem to despise the replacement building. Yet we're supposed to 'get behind them and their plans'?
(They need someone to get behind them with a bull-whip, or at the very least a jelly catapult imo...)
Joedavid
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8:16am Wed 29 Oct 08
If not being fixed could suggest Yorkshire Forward want further damage to occur.
Why no up to date pictures taken by you at the T&A of these pipes?
totty
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9:19am Wed 29 Oct 08
MP
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5:16pm Wed 29 Oct 08
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