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Sunderland railway station.


10 Gary Rowells said:
So much great happening in Sunderland but the train station is a big wasted opportunity. It already looks shabby and the inside is pretty depressing. A real shame as everything else seems so well done.
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Like most when it opened we thought very spartan, oh they're still finishing it off but it's just the same.
Something on the walls, would have expected a big information display like a railway station, rows of seats, plants?, anything to fill it as it's clear the concession stalls aren't coming.

A bit more like the original plans really
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burro nunn said:
Like most when it opened we thought very spartan, oh they're still finishing it off but it's just the same.
Something on the walls, would have expected a big information display like a railway station, rows of seats, plants?, anything to fill it as it's clear the concession stalls are coming.
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Could even put the ticket machines up there instead of on the platform.
 
Gasteiz said:
It's awful just an empty void.. if it's finished then it's a disgrace .. may as well have kept the old one it was less of an eyesore.
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Old one was a design of its time
New one awful
At the time it was built all the happy clappers were giddy about it
I could see it was going to be shit
Crap shape
Too much frame work
 
Shandy drinker said:
Old one was a design of its time
New one awful
At the time it was built all the happy clappers were giddy about it
I could see it was going to be shit
Crap shape
Too much frame work
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Probably using the cheapest materials and it's grey.

Surely it's not finished there's plenty of space for a shop coffee shop and maybe some of those boards depicting Sunderlands history and photos of the station in the past.

Something to look at waiting for the cancelled Northern Rail to Middlesbrough
 
Shandy drinker said:
Old one was a design of its time
New one awful
At the time it was built all the happy clappers were giddy about it
I could see it was going to be shit
Crap shape
Too much frame work
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Dont mind the new one at all but definitely needs to be improved inside. Hopefully the other end gets done soon
 
Shandy drinker said:
Old one was a design of its time
New one awful
At the time it was built all the happy clappers were giddy about it
I could see it was going to be shit
Crap shape
Too much frame work
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It's perfectly fine if the units were filled and it wouldn't look empty.

Just still don't know what's going on with the units
 
Brett said:
It's perfectly fine if the units were filled and it wouldn't look empty.

Just still don't know what's going on with the units
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Here is the brochure for renting a unit

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Basicly you have to agree to a 3-6 year lease, fund all the building cost for the Kiosk, which also paying legal fees of £1,500+Vat

And on top of that they want a Minimum Guaranteed Rent or Turnover Percentage depending on which one is higher.

And that is not include Service Charge, Utilities and Business Rates
 
Chunk Love Sloth said:
Here is the brochure for renting a unit

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Basicly you have to agree to a 3-6 year lease, fund all the building cost for the Kiosk, which also paying legal fees of £1,500+Vat

And on top of that they want a Minimum Guaranteed Rent or Turnover Percentage depending on which one is higher.

And that is not include Service Charge, Utilities and Business Rates
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That brochure is truly awful, it's almost like they don't want anybody to take a lease.
 
Are there even timetables on the walls? Connecting bus route maps? A map of the area outside the station? Owt? It looked like a crap conservatory the only time I stuck my head in.
 
Chunk Love Sloth said:
Here is the brochure for renting a unit

You must be logged on to see external links

Basicly you have to agree to a 3-6 year lease, fund all the building cost for the Kiosk, which also paying legal fees of £1,500+Vat

And on top of that they want a Minimum Guaranteed Rent or Turnover Percentage depending on which one is higher.

And that is not include Service Charge, Utilities and Business Rates
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I posted it earlier on in the thread , feels they more then happy for them to sit empty over a year on .

Just makes no sense
riffraff said:
Are there even timetables on the walls? Connecting bus route maps? A map of the area outside the station? Owt? It looked like a crap conservatory the only time I stuck my head in.
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It hasn't changed , network rail have absolutely no interest in doing anything

Almost like the empty units have just been forgot about

Shame the echo don't care as really this should be a story ran
 
mackem35 said:
That brochure is truly awful, it's almost like they don't want anybody to take a lease.
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Completely agree, but we have always been the badly done too party when it comes to norther rail / network rail.

They could have done deals with to have retail kiosks open etc, when the building was opened, but they dont appear to have done that, they have also left it half done as per the artist plans.

I was under the belief that Milligans was going to take the largest retail unit, when the works was complete, but that looks to have changed and they are happy to stay outside of the station.
 
Chunk Love Sloth said:
Completely agree, but we have always been the badly done too party when it comes to norther rail / network rail.

They could have done deals with to have retail kiosks open etc, when the building was opened, but they dont appear to have done that, they have also left it half done as per the artist plans.

I was under the belief that Milligans was going to take the largest retail unit, when the works was complete, but that looks to have changed and they are happy to stay outside of the station.
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Milligans saw the rent and realised it was better to say where there had relocated

Were definitely offered first refusal
 
I reckon they got the budget for that build then now nothing. No one actively trying to do anything with it. It'll stay like that. A bit of a daft void.
 
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