Not sure if already mentioned or how accurate but I was over the sheepfolds yesterday looking over a few more of the demolitions I’ve got. Spoke to someone at SCC and they seem to think that there won’t be much around the luxury flats being developed at the ET warehouse that’s staying (largest building block 1 iirc).
Sunderland’s studio plans more than a ‘wild dream’ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...sunderland-fulwell-73-film-television-studios Interesting update on the film studio plans. All the government has to do is spend about 1/30th of the money owed by Lady Mone. Sunderland Council come out of the article well, but somehow the Sunderland Corruption mob will try and twist this.
Whatever happened to the talk of the govt moving up to city hall whilst parliament is getting renovated in the next few years? They’ll get the funding undoubtedly if that happens.
I don’t think it was ever a real prospect. The council offered to host the House of Lords in a new facility which would be converted to a state of the art conference facility after they moved back to London. As it stands they seem to have decided to stay put and do the renovation of Parliament while they are still in the building. it will cost more and take longer, but they will still have their London flats. I think the offer of moving the Lords to Sunderland was one from the,shy bairns get nowt, way of thinking. The offer is still on the table.
Not Sheepfolds, but this is another significant development and I am led to believe that there are plans in the pipeline to create two more gigafactories in Sunderland. https://www.electrive.com/2022/12/12/uk-envision-aesc-lays-foundation-for-sunderland-gigafactory/
There is also 20 self build building plots coming up for sale in Sunderland that will be red hot, should be released by April 12th.
So with Nissan, the gigafactory and the Pallion studio planes, Sunderland will have three major employment sectors , which is what a local economy needs to be sustainable. For the first time in decades Sunderland can look forward to the future and young people can have security.
That's been getting built since last spring and is already a few months behind schedule. There is going to be at least another 1 getting built.
I'm still sceptical that electric cars are the way forward. The grid itself is nowhere near good enough to support an electric car at every home. You also have Toyota who have made an Ammonia engine which is way more productive than current EV's.
Just wish these things were at the beginning of the month rather than the end…runs until Sunday 24th and I get paid on the 25th. Bloody typical.
