Is Sunderland a city of the future?

[Kingdom Bhoy]

OPINION: Is Sunderland A City of the Future - SGM

Author: Samuel Marriott-Dowding is the CEO of Sunderland based communications and PR company Marriott Communications. As many of us have seen for ourselves, the economic impact of the UK’s lockdowns have greatly affected the retail and hospitality industries, with many high street shops having...

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[Wilfy]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

 

[Kingdom Bhoy]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

Is there still snow in Stanley?

 

[herra soul mob]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

beamish is to the folk of stanley

 

[Lumber]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

They call Beamish Futureland

 

[citybythesea]

It is ........but the city needs more ambition

e.g. the development of industrial units on the former glass works is an example:

£20million vision for former glassworks site - hundreds of jobs set for proposed regeneration scheme

Plans for a £20million regeneration project creating hundreds of jobs in Sunderland have been unveiled.

www.sunderlandecho.com

its on the main gateway into the city centre and the best they can imagine is some industrial units!

aim higher

 

[Boris Bear]

Yes

 

[Goat Eyes]

It is ........but the city needs more ambition

e.g. the development of industrial units on the former glass works is an example:

£20million vision for former glassworks site - hundreds of jobs set for proposed regeneration scheme

Plans for a £20million regeneration project creating hundreds of jobs in Sunderland have been unveiled.

www.sunderlandecho.com

its on the main gateway into the city centre and the best they can imagine is some industrial units!

aim higher

What do you envisage, sky scrapers. We need industrial as well as everything else.

 

[citybythesea]

What do you envisage, sky scrapers. We need industrial as well as everything else.

There's already plenty of empty industrial units on the outskirts of the city....washinton...houghton etc with better road access rather than encouraging HGV's into the centre. Also there's plenty of brownfield sites down hendon would be better suited than this place.

Surely things can be more imaginative than industrial units!

 

[Kingdom Bhoy]

There's already plenty of empty industrial units on the outskirts of the city....washinton...houghton etc with better road access rather than encouraging HGV's into the centre. Also there's plenty of brownfield sites down hendon would be better suited than this place.

Surely things can be more imaginative than industrial units!

This.

 

[TenGables]

 

[Alcoholic_Author]

Yes, precisely for the reasons people think it’s not.

 

[MackneyHackem]

The future's panack. I've tasted it.

 

[forzamilansafc]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

And Boldon @HawaySkin

 

[HawaySkin]

And Boldon @HawaySkin

Shut your pathetic mouth and fight me at Cheltenham tonight muppet

 

[ned_werby]

It already is to the folk from Stanley.

Unrelated ...but, what is all that fencing up for down the sea front (Martino's corner, past the Stack and the amusements) @Wilfy? Any idea?

 

[vinegar hill]

Unrelated ...but, what is all that fencing up for down the sea front (Martino's corner, past the Stack and the amusements) @Wilfy? Any idea?

Nee improved paving

 

[Wilfy]

Nee improved paving

This, a million quids worth iirc.

 

[Osklen]

There's already plenty of empty industrial units on the outskirts of the city....washinton...houghton etc with better road access rather than encouraging HGV's into the centre. Also there's plenty of brownfield sites down hendon would be better suited than this place.

Surely things can be more imaginative than industrial units!

But who needs to be more imaginative?

This is a private developer that is bringing the scheme forward.

A debate about whether the planning dept should push for a better scheme could well be hamstrung by planning legislation.

 

[vinegar hill]

More imagination?
Did I imagine reading last week that they’re pushing for an 80 million pound arena in the centre of town?