Transfer of Odeon’s ownership could be ‘opportunity or potential risk’ (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Who cares anymore? Sick of reading about it as this is a bigger disgrace than the Westfield site.

Don't you mean that Bradford is a disgrace?!

All people want to know is what is going to hapen to the Odeon and when!

I don't think the majority of people care any more about any buildings in the city.too many years of incompetance by the council and Yorkshire forward and the mess the whole city is in has made people indifferent.Lets face it the city is a complete pile of manure and it will not change' it cannot even build a bus shelter properly what chance a major project. Bradford is not a sinking ship its sunk.

There isn't any risk involved in the hands of Yorkshire Forward, The Council or Westfield.....the fact remains that while these clowns are involved, nothing will get done anyway. Chances are there will just be several parks constructed where potentially revitalising building could be placed......oh wait......that one's been done to death hasn't it?......

can someboby explain to me why we need
more hotels, restaurants , cafes and 36 apartments in our crime ridden sh*t hole of a city when nobody wants to come here LOL security word boat task it would be a task to get a boat on that waste of money outside city hall

What a bunch of jokers Yorkshire Forward are,they should be called Leeds Forward,because they did absolutely nothing for the City of Bradford.The Odeon should be refurbished and made into a Concert/conference hall,the council are also bang out of order,surely they should be backing this scheme..oh i forgot it isn't a park.The only reason Yorkshire Forward wanted more office space in Bradford was because they backed the Leeds Arena,they simply do not want Bradford to have any improved infrastucture,a disgracful state of affairs made worse by Bradford Council being in cahoots with them,an absolute disgrace,made worse by their hopeless handling of the Westfield farce and their incredible stance on crossrail.Yorkshire Forward looking after Leeds interests and Bradford Council seemingly all right with that sorry state of affairs.

Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

Sell them off, how many meals on wheels could be subsidised with the sale of the Odeon site alone? The option is there, but it is being hidden by a council chamber full of Micawbers.

"Micawber" -a Dickensian character who always believed something would turn up. It didn't so he emigrated to Australia where he became successful - take a hint councillors.

bradford rose wrote:
Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

This is true, but enough is enough and we've had more than enough. The incompetence of this council beggars belief but remember that Ian Greenwood (Labour Leader whom runs the show at the moment) has been nominated our new Lord Mayor soon and will have all the power he needs without backing from anyone. He publicly says he does not want the job. Don't know about anyone else but I feel that Bradford can only get a lot worse under these conditions. And we never even got a say in this. That's one of the reasons why nobody cares!

“Whether putting it into the Council’s ownership would make things happen quickly I don’t know.”

I do. It won't. The council will spend money on 'consultants', then come up with another 'pie in the sky' scheme, which nobody in this City either agrees with or wants, the proposed development will then fail due to lack of cash. The result will be that the Odeon will remain as it presently is for another ten years.

bradford rose wrote:
Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

It's not a lack of fight. It's the fact that they know that it won't make a blind bit of difference. The council know that the electorate are as impotent as they are, they have mis-managed this City for so long that it is very nearly impossible to attract external investment. Can you imagine giving a possible investor a tour of this City? "And here's the hole in the ground where we wanted to build a shopping centre, here's a nearly derelict former cinema, here's our retail district, that is mostly boarded up and the rest of the shops are either pound shops or betting shops" The council should be strung up outside City Hall for what they have done!

That photo looks like the city's been bombed to sh!t.

nastybobby wrote:

bradford rose wrote:
Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

It's not a lack of fight. It's the fact that they know that it won't make a blind bit of difference. The council know that the electorate are as impotent as they are, they have mis-managed this City for so long that it is very nearly impossible to attract external investment. Can you imagine giving a possible investor a tour of this City? "And here's the hole in the ground where we wanted to build a shopping centre, here's a nearly derelict former cinema, here's our retail district, that is mostly boarded up and the rest of the shops are either pound shops or betting shops" The council should be strung up outside City Hall for what they have done!

To be fair, the current council have been in control less than a year. The Tory and Lib Dem coalition presided over the worst disasters of this last ten years... Ever get a sense of deja vue?

mrs walker wrote:

nastybobby wrote:

bradford rose wrote:
Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

It's not a lack of fight. It's the fact that they know that it won't make a blind bit of difference. The council know that the electorate are as impotent as they are, they have mis-managed this City for so long that it is very nearly impossible to attract external investment. Can you imagine giving a possible investor a tour of this City? "And here's the hole in the ground where we wanted to build a shopping centre, here's a nearly derelict former cinema, here's our retail district, that is mostly boarded up and the rest of the shops are either pound shops or betting shops" The council should be strung up outside City Hall for what they have done!

To be fair, the current council have been in control less than a year. The Tory and Lib Dem coalition presided over the worst disasters of this last ten years... Ever get a sense of deja vue?

True the Labour lot have only been in a year but a lot of them have been around many years in opposition and still have had the power to make or break a vote. Bradford councillors for the last 15 years have been running on "empty" and the money spent of schemes that have not come to fruition has been remarkable. The Odeon mess for over 10 years - I rest my case.

The whole Odeon saga is sad, I was shocked when I read the truth about the situation here:
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http://tiny.cc/gf3j7

Yorkshire Lass wrote:

mrs walker wrote:

nastybobby wrote:

bradford rose wrote: Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

It's not a lack of fight. It's the fact that they know that it won't make a blind bit of difference. The council know that the electorate are as impotent as they are, they have mis-managed this City for so long that it is very nearly impossible to attract external investment. Can you imagine giving a possible investor a tour of this City? "And here's the hole in the ground where we wanted to build a shopping centre, here's a nearly derelict former cinema, here's our retail district, that is mostly boarded up and the rest of the shops are either pound shops or betting shops" The council should be strung up outside City Hall for what they have done!

To be fair, the current council have been in control less than a year. The Tory and Lib Dem coalition presided over the worst disasters of this last ten years... Ever get a sense of deja vue?

True the Labour lot have only been in a year but a lot of them have been around many years in opposition and still have had the power to make or break a vote. Bradford councillors for the last 15 years have been running on "empty" and the money spent of schemes that have not come to fruition has been remarkable. The Odeon mess for over 10 years - I rest my case.

I live in Keighley and our superb MP is now touting the idea of Keighley being indepedent of Bradford,now wasn't Kris Hopkins the leader of Bradfoed Metropolitan Council,this fella is a total disgrace.Talk about two faced,was this ever mentioned while he was dismantling Bradford City Centre.This joker should be hung out to dry,he twiddled his thumbs while some numpty came up with the name Leeds City Region,the idea that a City the size of Bradford could be lumped in with Leeds is ludicrous,but i think it's now pretty obvious how it happened under his watch.That title is a total disgrace just like Hopkins is.
On the Keighley issue,i believe Keighley should never have been part of the Bradford Met,the areas that includes Cleckheaton,Gomersal
,Birkenshaw Scholes and Drighlington and Tyersal of course should have been.Ilkley,Burley and Menston should stay as they have always had ties with the City of Bradford.

bcfc1903 wrote:

Yorkshire Lass wrote:

mrs walker wrote:

nastybobby wrote:

bradford rose wrote: Some Bradford people do still care and should still care about what's left of our city. Why should we have to trail off to Leeds and Huddersfield while we wash our hands off the devastation of our own city centre. Why do we just allow the overpaid incompetents in City Hall to carry on their reign of lunacy at our expense. I think they are not even aware of the strength of feeling against them, and I doubt whether any of them ever see the comments made about them on here. A mass protest at the town hall is called for, but I'm afraid it won't happen as the majority of people don't seem to have any fight in them nowadays.

It's not a lack of fight. It's the fact that they know that it won't make a blind bit of difference. The council know that the electorate are as impotent as they are, they have mis-managed this City for so long that it is very nearly impossible to attract external investment. Can you imagine giving a possible investor a tour of this City? "And here's the hole in the ground where we wanted to build a shopping centre, here's a nearly derelict former cinema, here's our retail district, that is mostly boarded up and the rest of the shops are either pound shops or betting shops" The council should be strung up outside City Hall for what they have done!

To be fair, the current council have been in control less than a year. The Tory and Lib Dem coalition presided over the worst disasters of this last ten years... Ever get a sense of deja vue?

True the Labour lot have only been in a year but a lot of them have been around many years in opposition and still have had the power to make or break a vote. Bradford councillors for the last 15 years have been running on "empty" and the money spent of schemes that have not come to fruition has been remarkable. The Odeon mess for over 10 years - I rest my case.

I live in Keighley and our superb MP is now touting the idea of Keighley being indepedent of Bradford,now wasn't Kris Hopkins the leader of Bradfoed Metropolitan Council,this fella is a total disgrace.Talk about two faced,was this ever mentioned while he was dismantling Bradford City Centre.This joker should be hung out to dry,he twiddled his thumbs while some numpty came up with the name Leeds City Region,the idea that a City the size of Bradford could be lumped in with Leeds is ludicrous,but i think it's now pretty obvious how it happened under his watch.That title is a total disgrace just like Hopkins is.
On the Keighley issue,i believe Keighley should never have been part of the Bradford Met,the areas that includes Cleckheaton,Gomersal

,Birkenshaw Scholes and Drighlington and Tyersal of course should have been.Ilkley,Burley and Menston should stay as they have always had ties with the City of Bradford.

So he is offering to try and get you what you want and you are complaining?

I really like the idea of converting the Odeon site into a concert venue with maybe a 4-5000 capacity. That would bridge the gap between the larger arenas and the smaller ones like O2. The venue should retain much of the existing building structure as it really is worth saving, probably with a make-over similar to the Alhambra .... keeping the best of the old and adding some modern features, particularly betwen the two domes.