NO , i was saying its a small way the Council can atone for some of their destructive measures in the recent and more distant past . They were errors of judgement with or without the use of hindsight
Signed. The population of Hulll suffered terribly. What better way to respectfully commemorate the civilian dead of ww2. and educate the people of today.
Just bumping this, as the council meet this afternoon, to decide if they are going to go ahead with the compulsory purchase.
That is as maybe but lots of cities all over Europe suffered far worse and don't have bomb sites over 70 years later. The fact it is still there is an indictment of Hull councils down the years.
True but as I have stated on many occasion, the powers that be whether Westminster or the boardrooms of companies do not seem to want to invest in Hull, in the case of Westminster probably because the electorate of Hull chose to make Hull a safe Labour seat. You can see the difference a bit political expediency can alter things, Harold Wilson had no overall majority and there was a by-election in Hull so desperate was Harold to win the seat he sent Barbara Castle, Transport Secretary at the time, to promise us the Humber Bridge after it had been proposed 100 years previously. Labour won we got the Bridge but with many caveats that were never mentioned during the election campaign. We still have a battle, electrification of the railways stop at Selby, no motorway to Hull's boundaries, and don't let me get started on Castle St, I am beginning to realise that not only will I live long enough to see it finished I might not live long enough to see it started.
Bomb-hit National Picture Theatre to be bought by Hull City Council please log in to view this image COUNCILLORS have agreed in principle to buy the bombed ruins of the former National Picture Theatre in Hull under a compulsory purchase order. However, they say the process will only start once they are satisfied a trust hoping to turn the site into a visitor attraction and education centre has the necessary resources to deliver the project. The National Civilian World War Two Memorial Trust has spent eight years campaigning to redevelop the privately-owned site in Beverley Road. Trust chairman Alan Canvess said: “This is a positive step forward. I am aware some councillors have doubts about what the trust hopes to do with the building but that just adds to my enthusiasm for getting it done.” Today’s council planning committee heard that English Heritage had offered a £50,000 contribution towards to the cost of restoring the former cinema’s façade. Craig McHugh, English Heritage’s principal advisor on heritage at risk, said: “We believe this will be a fitting tribute to the people of Hull who lost their lives during the Second World War.” http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Bomb...tory-23309145-detail/story.html#ixzz3GrbJgDxV Thanks all.
If you have an interest in Hull's cinema history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_cinemas_in_Kingston_upon_Hull
23 Jan 2015 — Hi all, In October 2014 the Kingston upon Hull City Council Planning Committee agreed to serve a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) on the owner of the site containing the ruins of the former National Picture Theatre. HOWEVER, they decided that the CPO would not actually be served until the National Civilian WW2 Memorial Trust had convinced them that they were capable of developing and running the site. So, they gave the Trust three months to provide a 5-year business plan, and other requested information. At their Planning Committee Meeting held on the 21st January 2015, the Committee decided to go ahead with the serving of the CPO. The Trustees are very pleased with the decision, although they won't be celebrating until the site has actually been purchased. Thank you very much for your past support.
All that campaiging and talk of CPO's and it's going to end up an Indian Restaurant... Work starts on new Indian restaurant on Beverley Road please log in to view this image Refurbishment work has started on a former pub standing next to the bombed-out National Picture cinema in Hull's Beverley Road. The Swan Inn has been empty for several years. The facelift scheme will see it reopen as an Indian restaurant early in the new year. The pub and the ruins of the neighbouring cinema have been at the centre of a long-running redevelopment saga. Campaigners want to convert the privately owned cinema site into an education centre and memorial dedicated to Hull's civilian casualties during the Second World War after getting the ruins officially classified as an historic listed building. However, site owner Saleem Hakim is pressing ahead with the conversion scheme at the pub, which it also owns. Earlier this year, he said the facelift was costing about £500,000. The campaigners had hoped to buy the pub at one stage. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Work...tory-28013459-detail/story.html#ixzz3p79xj1aZ
The way the geezer who owns it has been talking, in previous daily fail reports, you'd have thought the restaurant had opened months ago.
Up until Jan this year the Council were saying that a CPO would be issued, but I can find no record of it actually happening.
