Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

We'd be pretty ****ed without them

 

"You need hands to..."

It's not a footbridge.

 

As it's you, a fairy story?!

 

Brady heard that bridge reminded someone of a Max Bygraves song and suggested ours was held up by a large pink toothbrush on one side and a large blue toothbrush on lthe other.

 

After mergers and branding themselves Reckitt & Colman, Reckitt Benckiser then RB today the company has gone back to the original Reckitt brand. We are Hull.

 

That is very good news.

 

I’m down Whitfriagate as we speak and there’s lots going on. Hopefully it will make the area look nicer and not put the focus on the shops selling tat. Also it’s a real shame that the original gate is in such a state. Looks awful!

 

Not Hull but shame to hear John Lewis at York Vanguard closing.

 

christ - wasn’t that a purpose built building for them? Only opened 4 or 5 years ago ??

 

Wow time flies!! It seemed much sooner.

Will be very hard to fill that massive unit with a new tennent. Do you know if John Lewis owns the building or a tennent?

 

The John Lewis in Sheffield is going too, which makes the nearest one Leeds I believe.

 

The amount of jobless people in the area now, and probably more when furlough employer contributions increase and it eventually disappears ... sadly it needs a big old building.

Let’s hope we can get enough investment that it can move again to Bun in the Oven

 

My gut reaction was how disappointing it was, but as Dennis said I think it’s meant to be temporary to cope with a serious increase in joblessness due to post-pandemic economic fallout.

For the time it’s open it keeps the building in use and maintained. It also brings footfall into a retail area that’s desperate for customers, although pretty much by definition maybe not big-spenders admittedly.

Provided it’s free to be developed as and when any recovery comes I think it’s a decent interim solution.

 

Probably depends on the definition of ‘unemployed’ but there’s around 40,000 claiming some type of unemployment benefit across the whole Humber area and **** loads more on furlough that might end up claiming when the employer furlough contributions start ramping up July & Sept.
As said earlier though it’s supposed to be temporary.
Let’s hope it’s miles too big and just useful for extreme social distancing !