The fantastic arch that frames the Georgian townhouses between Prince Street and Trinity Square, that used to look like this... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Now looks like this... please log in to view this image What sort of dipshit thinks it's a good idea to put five plastic gas boxes in a historic part of the city? Without planning permission either. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Plas...16-ruin-8217/story-26533622-detail/story.html
Allam recently managed to make the council look half-decent.... they just love to remind us that they're totally inept and completely out of the depth in running a city. Clueless. It's a disgrace - I hope they're made to put it back to how it should look.
It's a listed building, what they've done is illegal, but now they plan to give themselves retrospective planning permission for something that should never have been allowed and they hope to get away with it simply because it's their own development.
Or the developer does. Imagine if they'd knocked this back until a better solution was found. What's the betting the claim would be that the council are holding up development again. They are out of place, but the mud needs to be aimed accurately. I'll reserve judgement until I've read something more substantial than a hdm article.
The developer is Hull City Council, if it was anyone else, they'd be refused planning. That's rather the point.
I took that exact same picture as your second one OLM when i was back in Hull last year. And i took it because i hadn't realised just what it looked like in the times i had wandered down there through the years. Admittedly i was slightly worse for wear on the previous occasions, but the picture has pride of place on my phone screen, as well as getting turned into a print for our wall. Its such a shame when companies install, in the words of Chuck Windsor, a Monstrous Carbuncle on the walls like that. Hulls heritage needs protecting not ruining.
Memories of G.P.Oridge and Cosy Fanny Tutu Also Gothenburg ' coffee club ' whore house / drinking den come flooding back
You do like to make bold opinions and state them as fact. You get so much wrong when you do that, I'll wait until I've looked at something more credible than you and the HDM.
OLM. Living down south don't get to the old town often so can I take it that the two photos are taken from different ends of the tunnel, the photographer taking advantage of better lighting in photo 3. Also what is the black cabinet opposite the gas boxes? Telephony? As it's a listed building wonder if they require listed building consent and Planning Policy Guidance No.15 states at para 3.37 "....... Local planning authorities are normally required to make their own applications to the Secretary of State, whether or not they themselves own the listed building in question. The Secretaries of State ask authorities to deal with their own buildings in ways which will provide examples of good practice to other owners........."
Hmmm i suppose the inventive artist can use the gas blocks as scrabble Tiles to spell out a message to the council (those that provide permission for such acts of thoughtless vandalism)
You for ****ing real or what? They had no planning permission and it's been done knowing damn well they will apply through a previsional accepted decision. Haven't you read it? Nob ed