Brighton Centre redevelopment face new delay (From The Argus)
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Brighton Centre redevelopment face new delay
10:30am Tuesday 9th February 2010 in
Redevelopment of the Brighton Centre will not start for at least another three years – and it could be longer still.
Sources at Brighton and Hove City Council have revealed lucrative conference events are already being booked for the key venue in both autumn 2012 and 2013, quashing hopes work would be underway by then.
It is now thought the long-awaited revamp will not begin until as late as 2015, contrary to previous reports of a 2012 start.
The bookings appears to confirm rumours in the city's business community that the £400million redevelopment scheme, which also involves the Churchill Square car parks and the neighbouring Kingswest cinema and nightclub complex owned by Standard Life Investments, has lost momentum.
The revamp is widely considered as an urgent priority for the long-term prosperity of the city and the appearance of its seafront.
The council, which owns the centre, insists the project is still on track and said it should have more details next month.
In July it commissioned Make Architects, whose partners have been involved with London's Gherkin and Wembley Stadium, to draw up plans.
A council spokesman said: "Progress with such complex projects will never be rapid and nobody ever said it would be.
"We’re still working on it behind the scenes. But there’s nothing to announce and we hadn’t expected there would be at this stage. We’re hoping to have a clearer idea on timetable in March.”
The ongoing delays will be a disappointment to the hundreds of hotels, bars, restaurants and shops which rely on the business generated by conference delegates.
Comments(23)
Bennn
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11:15am Tue 9 Feb 10
sussexone
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12:15pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Bennn wrote:lol, hopefully built on top of all the NIMBYs that want Brighton to remain a faded Victorian backwater selling Candy Floss.
What a shame! I was getting excited about leaving my flat in the new Marina towers and arriving by monorail to attend the grand opening next year. I would have passed the Black Rock arena, the Brighton O and the i360 on my way and the King Alfred towers would have been glittering in the distance. I guess I will have to wait a bit longer...
Wiggsy
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12:59pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Bennn wrote:A great post, and sadly highlights everything that continues to make the City an embarrassment all too often, the Ferris Wheel debacle being another to add.
What a shame! I was getting excited about leaving my flat in the new Marina towers and arriving by monorail to attend the grand opening next year. I would have passed the Black Rock arena, the Brighton O and the i360 on my way and the King Alfred towers would have been glittering in the distance. I guess I will have to wait a bit longer...
Personally, I think it's a crying shame the paddling pool was filled in, when I feel developing this would have been far more beneficial to locals and day trippers alike...............
..oh, and I also await to see when (if ever) we'll see a world class leisure centre built that could truly put the City on the map, rather than suffer the shame that Burgess Hill, and arguably Haywards Heath have better facilities than we do.
Real Brightonian
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1:21pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Number Six
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1:32pm Tue 9 Feb 10
sussexone wrote:A Victorian (or should that be Georgian?) backwater selling candy floss would be a vast improvement. Brighton still hasn't managed to get it's own football ground up and running yet.
Bennn wrote: What a shame! I was getting excited about leaving my flat in the new Marina towers and arriving by monorail to attend the grand opening next year. I would have passed the Black Rock arena, the Brighton O and the i360 on my way and the King Alfred towers would have been glittering in the distance. I guess I will have to wait a bit longer...lol, hopefully built on top of all the NIMBYs that want Brighton to remain a faded Victorian backwater selling Candy Floss.
As Bennn wonderfully points out, just another scheme that never comes to anything
Granny
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2:21pm Tue 9 Feb 10
John60
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2:25pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Christophe Hawtree
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2:28pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Charismatic Andrew
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3:03pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Christophe Hawtree wrote:Give it a rest Hawtree. I think we've established now that you consider the number of bookshelves at the Jubilee inadequate.
As the Council has shown itself incapable of building more bookshelves in the Jubilee Library, I cannot see how it would be capable of constructing anything more complicated, such as a new Brighton Centre. Why wasn't a more enduring building planned for the site forty years ago?
I'm considering challenging you to a duel myself. You can choose... swords or pistols.... I'm not fussy.
Made In Sussex
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3:12pm Tue 9 Feb 10
I have to appluad some realism at last from a Brighion poster!, all to often anywhere outside of Brighton is slagged off for one reason for another when the truth is that Brighton isnt all perfectly wonderful.. it has its bad and good bits..
GaryS9
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3:37pm Tue 9 Feb 10
kraftwerker
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3:37pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Christophe Hawtree
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4:44pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Charismatic Andrew wrote:If the Council cannot get right such basic things as library shelves, how can it ever hope to achieve "iconic" buildings? Others could cite other examples. The fact that a "senior" councillor could only answer a Question about music librares by making that fatuous remark about a duel shows precisely why the Council administration is unable to get ahead with such a thing as a new Brighton Centre.
Christophe Hawtree wrote:Give it a rest Hawtree. I think we've established now
As the Council has shown itself incapable of building more bookshelves
in the Jubilee Library, I cannot see how it would be capable of
constructing anything more complicated, such as a new Brighton Centre.
Why wasn't a more enduring building planned for the site forty years
ago?
that you consider the number of bookshelves at the Jubilee inadequate.
I'm considering challenging you to a duel myself. You can choose...
swords or pistols.... I'm not fussy.
yorkie44
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5:19pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Gentleman Jim
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7:04pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Rita Snatch
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7:07pm Tue 9 Feb 10
The work on this building will probably coincide with the commencement of our Metro Train system.
bug eye
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8:18pm Tue 9 Feb 10
for god sake come on Mary Mears and the new chief exec stop picking on the much needed students and the car driver and get this city progressing, the roads moving, get rid of the junkies drunks and van dwellers and get the streets cleaned up.
Living in the real world
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10:16pm Tue 9 Feb 10
John60 wrote:You need to get out more if you think it is one of the most disgusting in the Uk. Me thinks you need to go alone to Slough or Swindon or Basingstoke or Leeds or Hull or Glasgow etc etc
Why not just knock it down! it's one of the most disgusting buildings in the uk that should have never been built in the first place. Not only is it disgusting to look at but it's also souless to be in.
It may be old but at least it is well used on a daily basis Three years of redevelopment now would push many over the edge
sussexone
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10:35pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Christophe Hawtree wrote:I agree with Charismatic, give it a rest, or better still go buy some books/bookshelves or whatever it is you are moaning about if you are that fussed about it.
Charismatic Andrew wrote:If the Council cannot get right such basic things as library shelves, how can it ever hope to achieve "iconic" buildings? Others could cite other examples. The fact that a "senior" councillor could only answer a Question about music librares by making that fatuous remark about a duel shows precisely why the Council administration is unable to get ahead with such a thing as a new Brighton Centre.Christophe Hawtree wrote: As the Council has shown itself incapable of building more bookshelves in the Jubilee Library, I cannot see how it would be capable of constructing anything more complicated, such as a new Brighton Centre. Why wasn't a more enduring building planned for the site forty years ago?Give it a rest Hawtree. I think we've established now that you consider the number of bookshelves at the Jubilee inadequate. I'm considering challenging you to a duel myself. You can choose... swords or pistols.... I'm not fussy.
Whingers like you are a waste of time, I shall be 2nd in line for a duel, and I choose swords you tiresome bookworm! lol
Camel54
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10:42pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Nikolai Von Ruden
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11:37am Wed 10 Feb 10
Granny wrote:It's almost reminiscent of the West Pier isn't it.
Perhaps they are waiting for it to fall down by itself, then money can be saved by not having to demolish it.
John60
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2:01pm Wed 10 Feb 10
Living in the real world wrote:I get out alot actually for your information and still think that the Brighton Centre is one of the most disgusting buildings in the uk. So what if it's well used, it's still souless. I'd rather see a concert at the dome than that dump of a place. I tell you what, I'll get out more if you get your eyes tested!
John60 wrote:You need to get out more if you think it is one of the most disgusting in the Uk. Me thinks you need to go alone to Slough or Swindon or Basingstoke or Leeds or Hull or Glasgow etc etc
Why not just knock it down! it's one of the most disgusting buildings in the uk that should have never been built in the first place. Not only is it disgusting to look at but it's also souless to be in.
It may be old but at least it is well used on a daily basis Three years of redevelopment now would push many over the edge
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sussexone says...
10:34am Tue 9 Feb 10
How long has this been planned, more likely 2020 before they do anything, if at all!
I would luv to eat my words, but I doubt it!.