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| Quote: Lambrettaman "Assem's like a slightly bonkers rich uncle, he sometimes comes out with some strange things, but you let him off because he buys you better Christmas presents than everyone else.
He's a very successful man, he's made hundreds of millions and as a consequence he's used to being respected and he normally deals with other successful people. What he's not used to, is dealing with some slightly dim bloke from Orchard Park who's never achieved anything and only gets into office because barely anyone in his ward bothers to vote.
The bloke offered to raise over £100m to improve sporting facilities in Hull(creating the best sporting facilities in North East England) and create thousands of jobs, just so long as the council were willing to give him the site to do it on. It had no downside, it look the responsibility of improving the KC(which generates zero income for the council), improving West Park and improving Hull as a whole, most councils woukd have bitten his hand off.
Ours though, as is their tradition, just see it as some rich bloke trying to get something for nothing, rather that the opportunity that it presented. They're cretins, union men who see success as a threat, rather than an opportunity. It's nothing new, years ago Hull City Council turned down a major car plant, as they thought it would cause problems for wage level on the docks. I wouldn't give Geraghty a job as a cleaner, I suspect that dust could outwit him.
Assem's PR is often terrible and much of what's gone on has been handled very badly, but he's still the man who offered to invest a fortune in this city and it was thrown back in his face. Voters get the politicians they deserve and Hull has an appalling record when it comes to selecting it's politicians, there's only Alan Johson who knows what day it is. Hull is suffering badly at the moment, with our current politicians in charge, I see no chance of that situation improving.'"
He's have invested feck all. He'd have raised finance against a former public asset and made an absolute killing. Anyone who can't see though him is as thick as one of the councillors you refer to
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "I've never had anything removed.
I accept that any Ruscador employee will feel hard done by, over half the staff were made redundant, but such is life. I recently paid £400k in redundancy payments, I'd rather have not made anyone redundant, but sometimes you have no option.
I suspect there's very few on this board who have ever run a substantial business, so I'm not surprised that so many are so suspicious of what's gone before, but I doubt it will keep Assem up nights.'"
do you believe the utter tripe you post?
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| Quote: Standee "do you believe the utter tripe you post?'"
completely agree, what an insulting load of rubbish that scooter boy spews out.cant make my mind up as to whether he is naïve about allams motives or just stupid (and I really didn't want to descend to his level by saying that) of course he cant be any of those things because he is a "successful businessman"!!!!?
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| Quote: WormInHand "So, as I thought, it's just because he's a petulant man who's been told "no".'"
He is, but it doesn't change the fact that the development would massively benefit Hull, while costing the council nothing other than handing over something that is no asset at all at moment, as it generates no income.
Quote: WormInHand "Referring to people as slightly dim cretins merely because they are working class does nothing for your argument and says lots about yourself. '"
I referred to them as dim cretins, because they're dim cretins, somebodys background has absolutely no bearing on their intelligence.
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "He is, but it doesn't change the fact that the development would massively benefit Hull, while costing the council nothing other than handing over something that is no asset at all at moment, as it generates no income.
I referred to them as dim cretins, because they're dim cretins, somebodys background has absolutely no bearing on their intelligence.'"
You seem so confident that "This development would massively benefit Hull". Which one, the one with the duplicate ice rink or the one with the supermarket and Greggs? Which version are you talking about?
If the former, let's be honest, who'd be on the hook for running a leisure centre, ice rinks, squash courts? If the Council, you'd be asking them to taken on a shedload of incremental running costs for no return in a financially constrained environment. If you were running them as private entities, they'd be no more "benefit to the people" than opening another David Lloyd centre and getting people to shell out £60 a month.
If the latter, we come back to retail planning capacity, a point you seem to be struggling with. Will this help the traders of Anlaby Road, St Stephens, Whitefriargate or Princes Quay? Or just further impoverish a city centre retail market challenged enough by vacant properties whilst out of centre or edge of centre developments suck the life out of them? The market for physical retail is declining with the growth in online. Why would it be such a good thing to mortgage the stadium against loans to build all this stuff when there's a risk the market shrinks further in 5 years and the bank calls in the security and ends up owning a community asset? All for an extra 5k seats for City's brief PL tenure, which won't be fully utilised anyway. Lunacy.
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| Quote: Mrs Barista "You seem so confident that "This development would massively benefit Hull". Which one, the one with the duplicate ice rink or the one with the supermarket and Greggs? Which version are you talking about?
If the former, let's be honest, who'd be on the hook for running a leisure centre, ice rinks, squash courts? If the Council, you'd be asking them to taken on a shedload of incremental running costs for no return in a financially constrained environment. If you were running them as private entities, they'd be no more "benefit to the people" than opening another David Lloyd centre and getting people to shell out £60 a month.
If the latter, we come back to retail planning capacity, a point you seem to be struggling with. Will this help the traders of Anlaby Road, St Stephens, Whitefriargate or Princes Quay? Or just further impoverish a city centre retail market challenged enough by vacant properties whilst out of centre or edge of centre developments suck the life out of them? The market for physical retail is declining with the growth in online. Why would it be such a good thing to mortgage the stadium against loans to build all this stuff when there's a risk the market shrinks further in 5 years and the bank calls in the security and ends up owning a community asset? All for an extra 5k seats for City's brief PL tenure, which won't be fully utilised anyway. Lunacy.'"
The plan was for a £114m sport village, not for an out of town shopping centre.
But your post is a perfect example of the mentality that leads to Hull missing out on such developments.
The prime reason given for not wanting to progress this idea, was that the moving of Hull Fair was not up for discussion. So we have an eyesore for fifty weeks of the year, just so that we can site a fair there for a week a year, a travelling fair that could be sited anywhere.
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "The plan was for a £114m sport village, not for an out of town shopping centre.
But your post is a perfect example of the mentality that leads to Hull missing out on such developments.
The prime reason given for not wanting to progress this idea, was that the moving of Hull Fair was not up for discussion. So we have an eyesore for fifty weeks of the year, just so that we can site a fair there for a week a year, a travelling fair that could be sited anywhere.'"
It was. That was then, an emotive argument to get people on-side. Sport's a good thing, right? But sporting facilities make little money. In 2011, local businessman Allam has revealed detailed plans to build a complex, which would include a hotel, tennis, squash and gymnastics facilities, an Olympic-size swimming pool and a multi-story car park. "People of all ages will be able to come and play here. I want to see our younger generation only go home to eat and sleep, rather than hanging around on street corners." Noble. If unsupported by presentation of any detail to the folks he wanted to donate him a £46m asset.
Last weekend, however, the current version was revealed here "I had in mind £30 million to spend on the infrastructure of the club, to increase the stadium by 10,000 and to have commercial activities around the stadium – cafeterias, shops, supermarkets - to have all this to create income for the club so that in the future it can be self-financing and not relying on me."
Philanthropic Sporting village gift, or Hull City-funding, city centre-killing retail park? Could it be any clearer? You still seem unwilling to discuss planning policy on city centre regeneration. I recently met the head of planning for the North West. I know where the appetite is, and I understand why. You seem blinded to the downsides, in fact you state categorically that there are none. Because it's convenient for you to slate anyone challenging lifting sensible convenants and articulating the broader context of financial and ownership risk, retail market decline and planning policy as a Luddite.
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| Quote: Mrs Barista "It was. That was then, an emotive argument to get people on-side. Sport's a good thing, right? But sporting facilities make little money. In 2011, local businessman Allam has revealed detailed plans to build a complex, which would include a hotel, tennis, squash and gymnastics facilities, an Olympic-size swimming pool and a multi-story car park. "People of all ages will be able to come and play here. I want to see our younger generation only go home to eat and sleep, rather than hanging around on street corners." Noble. If unsupported by presentation of any detail to the folks he wanted to donate him a £46m asset.
Last weekend, however, the current version was revealed here "I had in mind £30 million to spend on the infrastructure of the club, to increase the stadium by 10,000 and to have commercial activities around the stadium – cafeterias, shops, supermarkets - to have all this to create income for the club so that in the future it can be self-financing and not relying on me."
Philanthropic Sporting village gift, or Hull City-funding, city centre-killing retail park? Could it be any clearer? You still seem unwilling to discuss planning policy on city centre regeneration. I recently met the head of planning for the North West. I know where the appetite is, and I understand why. You seem blinded to the downsides, in fact you state categorically that there are none. Because it's convenient for you to slate anyone challenging lifting sensible convenants and articulating the broader context of financial and ownership risk, retail market decline and planning policy as a Luddite.'"
Hull City Council determine what does, or doesn't, get planning permission, but if you refuse to discuss moving the fair, then you're guaranteed to get nothing. Luddites is a perfect term for those in charge of Hull City Council, dinosaurs is another.
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "Hull City Council determine what does, or doesn't, get planning permission, but if you refuse to discuss moving the fair, then you're guaranteed to get nothing. Luddites is a perfect term for those in charge of Hull City Council, dinosaurs is another.'"
Unlike you, for whom the term "mouthpiece" comes to mind. How is your best buddy Assam.
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "He is, but it doesn't change the fact that the development would massively benefit Hull, while costing the council nothing other than handing over something that is no asset at all at moment, as it generates no income.
I referred to them as dim cretins, because they're dim cretins, somebodys background has absolutely no bearing on their intelligence.'"
So, to be quite clear - the vitriol Allam has towards the council relates to nothing more than their unwillingness to hand over the freehold to the stadium without so much as an offer on the table nor sight of a business plan? Surely it would only be the actions of "cretins" (to use your elegant metaphor) to hand over the keys to Allam under those premises?
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Philanthropic Sporting village gift, or Hull City-funding, city centre-killing retail park? '"
Surely, no it can't be, [isurely[/i Allam couldn't have had a hidden agenda all along!? It beggars belief that he may have attempted to mislead (some may say lied and cheated) the citizens of Hull as to his true intentions?
But no, I do him a disservice. I distinctly remember him referring to shops and a supermarket some time ago, so the women would have something to do whilst the men played/watched sport, he said. Perhaps the nuance of this may be lost on Lambrettaman, who has a habit of heralding his returns to this forum with a cheery "Evening gents".
Quote: Lambrettaman "Hull City Council determine what does, or doesn't, get planning permission, but if you refuse to discuss moving the fair, then you're guaranteed to get nothing. Luddites is a perfect term for those in charge of Hull City Council, dinosaurs is another.'"
Are you being deliberately blind to Mrs B's questions or are you just incredibly obtuse? What are your thoughts on the viability of either a "sporting village" or a Hull-City-income-generating retail park on that site? What would be the long-term consequences of borrowing against the stadium to either of those ends and what would be the effects on the existing trade in the city?
As you have so far avoided this challenge now on no less than four occasions in the last 24 hours, my guess is that you are, indeed, obtuse and are unable to provide answers. Let's see if this is the fifth time you fail to address the points.
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| I have rarely seen someone so completely inserted into another's rectal passage as Scooterboy.
Or he's just an out-and-out troll.
The third option is that he's just stupid enough to actually believe the tripe he posts, but I find it difficult to credit that anyone with that low an IQ could manage to access the internet.
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| Quote: Lambrettaman "I referred to them as dim cretins, because they're dim cretins, somebodys background has absolutely no bearing on their intelligence.'"
Site Admin have ruled that 'cretin' is not a word whose use is acceptable on this site. Use it again and your posting rights will be removed.
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| Quote: WormInHand "So, to be quite clear - the vitriol Allam has towards the council relates to nothing more than their unwillingness to hand over the freehold to the stadium without so much as an offer on the table nor sight of a business plan? Surely it would only be the actions of "cretins" (to use your elegant metaphor) to hand over the keys to Allam under those premises?
Surely, no it can't be, [isurely[/i Allam couldn't have had a hidden agenda all along!? It beggars belief that he may have attempted to mislead (some may say lied and cheated) the citizens of Hull as to his true intentions?
But no, I do him a disservice. I distinctly remember him referring to shops and a supermarket some time ago, so the women would have something to do whilst the men played/watched sport, he said. Perhaps the nuance of this may be lost on Lambrettaman, who has a habit of heralding his returns to this forum with a cheery "Evening gents".
Are you being deliberately blind to Mrs B's questions or are you just incredibly obtuse? What are your thoughts on the viability of either a "sporting village" or a Hull-City-income-generating retail park on that site? What would be the long-term consequences of borrowing against the stadium to either of those ends and what would be the effects on the existing trade in the city?
As you have so far avoided this challenge now on no less than four occasions in the last 24 hours, my guess is that you are, indeed, obtuse and are unable to provide answers. Let's see if this is the fifth time you fail to address the points.'"
Personally, I wouldn't allow planning for retail on the site, but then I wouldn't insist that the site wasn't available to start with, I'd discuss what would be allowed and what benefits it would bring to the city I was supposed to represent.
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| Quote: Kosh "Site Admin have ruled that 'cretin' is not a word whose use is acceptable on this site. Use it again and your posting rights will be removed.'"
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