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Pull it all down, rebuild Drury Hill, open up the Dungeon, Stanford Street again...............................

You can't rebuild what's gone...Building regs 'elf and safety etc. would insist that Drury Hill should be twenty foot wide for a start. It would be like removing Stonehenge then rebuilding it...no matter how skilled, it would still not be the real thing.

The damage done to the city is irreparable...it was built in a time of prosperity,and like ghost towns in the states,when the prosperity has gone it leaves empty shells of unwanted buildings.

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Pull down the broadmarsh centre and car park , return canal street to a two way street is the best option......what could the council do with the land ? turn it into something to make us proud, and inspire visitors as they leave the station ...... Any ideas Nottstalgians ?

We could build a `JOCO' Park and have an 80foot statue erected in the middle to the great man.

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The trouble is, most city councils won't have spare land just standing there doing nothing. They see such areas as potential sources of revenue which aren't being utilised.

Here in Derby, our council is office mad, every time a plot of land becomes available, it's "Let's have an office block"

We've got offices which have been empty for years but they still want more.

If they ever did pull down Broadmarsh and if by chance the land wasn't used for a number of years, you know what daft idea someone would come up with:

Let's have another shopping centre!

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Chris,

Like the Castle Wharf development. Built in the 1990s, and the Evening Post, Nat West, and BT moved in among big promises about regenerating the area.

Now the leases have ended, the Ev Post has already gone and part of their building is now Land Registry, and BT are due to move out in the next year or so. (Dunno what Nat West are planning)

Leaving another lot of vacant office space that nobody wants.

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The centre of Derby is truly dreadful. Up towards Friargate isn't bad, but what is supposed to be the centre of town is awful.

A perfect example of bad town planning.

Bizarre looking box-type buildings and office blocks that don't appear to be occupied.

I remember when they shut the old bus station to replace it with that 'office block'. For about 2 years it was utter chaos getting in and out of Derby because they'd also decided to re-model the traffic system at the same time as closing the bus station.

The Eagle Centre was always dreadful and they've obviously tried to modernise with the Westgate Centre, but I've noticed a lot of un-occupied space in there.

The route from the Station to the town (Liversage Walk) means running the gauntlet of:

a) the drunks

b) people begging

I guess town planners are crap in most of the Midlands. They don't seem to have any imagination in terms of what is aestethically pleasing, or convenient for the people who live there.

They just think that everything is an 'earner'.

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To me one of the main problems with Broadmarsh today, is it has moved off the main shopping area in town, in the 70s and 80s more people used the buses to go shopping, so they would go to town to do the shopping and stay in the area where there bus stop was, Today people use a car or the tram to go to town so they have no reason to go into Broadmarsh to do their shopping, and the reason Victoria is still a used shopping centre is it is in the main area...........

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A great demonstration of how Nottingham was ruined by the planners in the 60s.

Wheeler Gate about to be overshadowed by a concrete box.

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Add Trinity Square to that and praise the Great Lord JOCO. (Leader of Nottingham City Council and Portfolio Holder for Strategic Regeneration !!!!!!!)

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The Investment Property Forum meeting, hosted by law firm Freeth Cartwright and chaired by David Smith, of Strata Real Estate, was told that the estimated total value of commercial property debt stood at £268 BILLION.

Read more: http://archive.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Debt-mountain-falls-pound-197bn/story-19249486-detail/story.html#ixzz2nVDavEEu

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