Why is Holby City being axed?
Are they making space for a bigger EastEnders Set? Or will they film stuff like Star Wars at Elstree again?
46-50, M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Not for one an idea I had for an EastEnders tale...
(One of my girfriends enjoyed it. I didn't, and used to call it Deadenders. Around the same time, our Mam enjoyed what I nick-named Corrosion Street).
If it's not already been done:
The area's residents are served with notice that the borough council is going to "regenerate" it. One way of writing the serial out of existence.
(What made me think of that? A telephone conversation with a friend facing that situation for real, in Wembley.)
(One of my girfriends enjoyed it. I didn't, and used to call it Deadenders. Around the same time, our Mam enjoyed what I nick-named Corrosion Street).
If it's not already been done:
The area's residents are served with notice that the borough council is going to "regenerate" it. One way of writing the serial out of existence.
(What made me think of that? A telephone conversation with a friend facing that situation for real, in Wembley.)
VirginMatchmaker · 46-50, M
@ArishMell Wembley has been massively regenerated. I've been lots of time to the old twin towers but what I want to know is where do you now park if you go to a game there now it's the newer stadium as the carparks seem to have been built on.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@VirginMatchmaker I do not know about the stadium, but I understand the FA has sold it to the USA ! Building on the car-parks would not surprise me though, and a worrying aspect. Is it to try to deter many of the fans? I fear that once in overseas ownership the continued success of any asset like that is as unimportant as the sport itself. What matters is the land it occupies...
I was though referring to a large housing-estate not far from the stadium. I've not visited my friend there but I think it's one of those big late-19 to mid-20C developments typical of a lot of city suburbs. The roads into London from the West pass through umpteen square miles of them.
She says "regeneration" in their council's terms means moving everyone out (to...?) and having a developer replace or at least refurbish the homes for re-sale at prices even local private landlords could not afford.
I was though referring to a large housing-estate not far from the stadium. I've not visited my friend there but I think it's one of those big late-19 to mid-20C developments typical of a lot of city suburbs. The roads into London from the West pass through umpteen square miles of them.
She says "regeneration" in their council's terms means moving everyone out (to...?) and having a developer replace or at least refurbish the homes for re-sale at prices even local private landlords could not afford.
VirginMatchmaker · 46-50, M
@ArishMell very true. Regeneration is great but it normally means the actual population who live there can't afford it. That's happening to pretty much the entire city of Manchester. I know at one point in 2019 there were 50 cranes in like 3 square miles. There's lots of new swanky flats but nowhere for the original population. Prices are sky high too. It seems everyday a new 50 floor building is approved.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@VirginMatchmaker Who moves into these places though? What do they do for a living?
Here in the South-West we are in Canary Wharf commuting and second-home land; making local homes beyond most local pay.
I asked a friend living near a brand-new 3000+ home estate in the town of Yeovil what employment there is around there for its residents. "There isn't any!" he said. The town is on two separate railways, one joining South Dorset to Bristol, the other, Exeter to London; so probably most work far away.
HS2 will push London's commuter belt even further and wider, but even without that I saw a bill-board on a new estate in Banbury proclaiming London (Marylebone) being only 45 minutes train ride away. can't blame them, as many of 'em now can't to live near their work in their own city!
Here in the South-West we are in Canary Wharf commuting and second-home land; making local homes beyond most local pay.
I asked a friend living near a brand-new 3000+ home estate in the town of Yeovil what employment there is around there for its residents. "There isn't any!" he said. The town is on two separate railways, one joining South Dorset to Bristol, the other, Exeter to London; so probably most work far away.
HS2 will push London's commuter belt even further and wider, but even without that I saw a bill-board on a new estate in Banbury proclaiming London (Marylebone) being only 45 minutes train ride away. can't blame them, as many of 'em now can't to live near their work in their own city!
VirginMatchmaker · 46-50, M
@ArishMell I've no idea who lives on them, although I'd suspect it's young professionals who once commuted.
The town I'm from has been turned into a commuter belt as all it's industry has been sold off. Now it's just homes and a Metrolink station able to take them anywhere in Greater Manchester except for Bolton lol. They built houses on the original line there and so now can't put a tram in lol. Somebody obviously had foresight!
The town I'm from has been turned into a commuter belt as all it's industry has been sold off. Now it's just homes and a Metrolink station able to take them anywhere in Greater Manchester except for Bolton lol. They built houses on the original line there and so now can't put a tram in lol. Somebody obviously had foresight!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@VirginMatchmaker I have seen an allegation that when British Railways closed many lines in the 1960s, it sold key areas of land to prevent any future re-opening.
I know one case of that rapid sale, obliterating both ends of a branch line that served among things an RN base now a commercial port. I do not know though, if this was general practice and if so, was by BR policy, Government decree or indeed if the allegation was true!
Foresight? Most of 'em wouldn't be able to spell it...
I know one case of that rapid sale, obliterating both ends of a branch line that served among things an RN base now a commercial port. I do not know though, if this was general practice and if so, was by BR policy, Government decree or indeed if the allegation was true!
Foresight? Most of 'em wouldn't be able to spell it...
VirginMatchmaker · 46-50, M
@ArishMell Yeah they wouldn't know how to spell it. The Beeching Report was a disaster for infrastructure. Only now can they see how misguided it truly was.
Is the RN base Portland as I know that's now commercial rather than RN.
Is the RN base Portland as I know that's now commercial rather than RN.