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| Quote: Old Feller "Even further away from the original spirit of the post, we should all be ganging up against Sheffield whose jealousy of the success of Leeds culminated in their MPs bleating to the Govt about the use of Yorkshire Forward money to assist the development of the Leeds Arena. Their moaning holds undue wight with the govt because of who their local MPs are & it nearly lost Leeds the major external funding for the Arena. Mind you the tory leader of the city council didn't help when he boasted that it would be built with or without the Yorks Forward cash. Had I been in charge of doling out the funds I'd have said, well go on then & we'll give it to somewhere else that can't raise the money itself. Sheffield has long been envious of the success of Leeds.'" I agree with you about the Yorkshire Forward money. I would have expected the Sheffield Arena itself to make some waves but the extent of the intervention of the Sheffield MP's in this matter was out of order in my opinion. We did not see the Manchester MP's bleating about the building of an arena in Leeds and while I know the issue surrounded Yorkshire Forward money primarily, it is about the same distance from Leeds to Manchester as from Leeds to Sheffield. In terms of overall leisure facilities and funding for such, Sheffield has done very well indeed and has an international athletics stadium, international pool, large ice complex and large multi-purpose arena while Leeds only has one of the things on that list. It is not as if the proposal for the Leeds arena was a similar multi-purpose arena set up, the Leeds proposal is for a large 'theatre style' arena. If the rumours are true Leeds will probably be getting it's own ice rink next to Elland Road fairly soon, the site where, when still at Leeds City Council, I did some feasibility for an arena some 16 or 17 years ago... my how time flies. I wonder if we are going to get the same bleating again from our neighbours in Sheffield?
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Sheffield made a complete a[irs[/ie of remodelling itself after the decimation of its main industry in the 1980s and epitomised the disaster that an out-of-town mall can wreak on a city centre (Newcastle didn't do a bad job of cocking the whole thing up either) - both cities look at Leeds' city centre with envious eyes and wonder where all of their Victorian and Edwardian buildings went (how many geordie voices can you hear in Leeds Market on a saturday ?)
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Quote: McLaren_Field "Sheffield made a complete a[irs[/ie of remodelling itself after the decimation of its main industry in the 1980s and epitomised the disaster that an out-of-town mall can wreak on a city centre (Newcastle didn't do a bad job of cocking the whole thing up either) - both cities look at Leeds' city centre with envious eyes and wonder where all of their Victorian and Edwardian buildings went (how many geordie voices can you hear in Leeds Market on a saturday ?)'" ...and don't forget nearly killing it's entire city centre retail trade in the 90's buy building an over-large shopping centre next the M1! If it was not for John Lewis and the posh north Derbyshire set shopping there, it would now resemble Castleford town centre... wait a minute... large shopping centre next to motorway kills town centre... whatever next eh, a ski slope!
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If I recall correctly Sheffield already has a ski slope but it's outdoors! Still at least they'll have snow this year.
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Quote: Inflatable_Armadillo "...I am not sure why we are having a p1ss1ing contest about though? ... '" Quite ... and I agree. I work on projects that take me to lots of apparently unprepossessing places and there is always something interesting or historic about them (I am deliberately forgetting Milton Keynes ... ). Quote: Inflatable_Armadillo "... I thought people were giving Wakefield a hard time for no reason really and I think many Leeds residents are quick to condemn it's city neighbour without fully understand it's historical role in the success of the region and what is the very fine city of Leeds.'" I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about Wakefield, many of my family still live there or thereabouts and I have been very familiar with the place since the 1950's (I could bore for England about Wakefield's history) ... and it has been so badly abused and redeveloped by successive councils that it isn't even a shadow of its former self. It's a crying shame and Wakefield deserves better ... hence my comments earlier about how I'd be surprised if the park and ride to the proposed stadium was the council's idea.
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Quote: El Barbudo "Quite ... and I agree. I work on projects that take me to lots of apparently unprepossessing places and there is always something interesting or historic about them (I am deliberately forgetting Milton Keynes ... ). I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about Wakefield, many of my family still live there or thereabouts and I have been very familiar with the place since the 1950's (I could bore for England about Wakefield's history) ... and it has been so badly abused and redeveloped by successive councils that it isn't even a shadow of its former self.It's a crying shame and Wakefield deserves better ... hence my comments earlier about how I'd be surprised if the park and ride to the proposed stadium was the council's idea.'" Maybe that's what happens when you have a city dominated by a single political party over a prolonged period of time? Those in power do not have to listen to the electorate & believe that come what may they are always right. Leeds has not been subject to this, usually being controlled by those in opposition nationally so that there are always checks & balances in place. That requires a greater consensus within a city - politically, commercially & financially. Compare Wakefield with a similar postion until recently in Sheffield and Liverpool. Both cities that declined dramatically during the 70s, 80s & 90s. All my own thoughts obviously.
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Quote: Old Feller "...All my own thoughts obviously.'" But ones with which I'd agree.
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Quote: El Barbudo "But ones with which I'd agree.'" Me too. As a resident of Wakefield and a Trinity supporter, we've had too many years of a situation whereby you could put a red rosette on someones cat and it would get voted in.
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