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Post by werrington on Feb 16, 2022 9:47:41 GMT
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Feb 16, 2022 9:59:22 GMT
Is Gemini still open in Hanley. Used to have some good clobber in there.
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Post by eddyclamp on Feb 16, 2022 10:06:48 GMT
They have a big next now on fessie park, where you dont have to put up with beggars and monkey dust merchants.
plus there is free parking
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Post by superjw on Feb 16, 2022 10:12:24 GMT
Realistically was always on the cards once the big one on Festival Park opened
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Post by eddyclamp on Feb 16, 2022 10:13:16 GMT
Is Gemini still open in Hanley. Used to have some good clobber in there. blimey, you must go up Hanley less than I do  |
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Post by eddyclamp on Feb 16, 2022 10:14:06 GMT
Is Gemini still open in Hanley. Used to have some good clobber in there. blimey, you must go up Hanley less than I do I think Bottlecraft are in that building now |
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Post by westlandstokie on Feb 16, 2022 10:19:03 GMT
Hanley has slowly been going down the pan for a few years now and this is just another nail in its coffin. For Xmas shopping or holiday shopping me and my family go to either the Trafford Centre or Meadowhall in Sheffield. Everything you need under one roof and masses of free parkingā¦itās a no brainier. |
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Post by salopstick on Feb 16, 2022 10:34:45 GMT
Paying for parking when you are being encouraged to shop in town centres pisses me off.
If you go Newport Shropshire itās free but market Drayton charge 50p an hour.
Itās not the cash itās the convenience.
Shopping centres beat the high street but the high street clung on.
Retail parks are beating the shopping centres
Then add the internet too.
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Post by cheadlepotter on Feb 16, 2022 11:11:26 GMT
Hopefully the new arena helps to revive Hanley because itās a dump right now. The Potteries Centre is the worst Iāve ever known it to be and what surrounds it is a mess too. Obviously weāre a smaller city than the likes of Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool but weāre so far behind itās depressing.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Feb 16, 2022 11:33:10 GMT
Oh well, never mind.
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Post by superjw on Feb 16, 2022 11:33:46 GMT
Hanley has slowly been going down the pan for a few years now and this is just another nail in its coffin. For Xmas shopping or holiday shopping me and my family go to either the Trafford Centre or Meadowhall in Sheffield. Everything you need under one roof and masses of free parkingā¦itās a no brainier. Another big nail for the shopping centre too, next like Debenhams took up a really big plot which nobody is now paying for |
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Post by superjw on Feb 16, 2022 12:47:57 GMT
Hopefully the new arena helps to revive Hanley because itās a dump right now. The Potteries Centre is the worst Iāve ever known it to be and what surrounds it is a mess too. Obviously weāre a smaller city than the likes of Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool but weāre so far behind itās depressing. I was actually slightly hopeful when InTu took over with then running Trafford Centre etc but it's not been that successful and really is a dive now. Haven't been there at all since Covid other than to go the cinema |
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Feb 16, 2022 12:55:56 GMT
Hanley is dead.
Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating.
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Feb 16, 2022 12:58:49 GMT
Hanley is dead. Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating. I hate to say it but the council needs to go on a massive compulsary purchase buying spree and level most of the place and start again. It is actually the only way any real improvement will take place. |
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Post by Davef on Feb 16, 2022 13:01:39 GMT
Hanley's not been the same since Geordie Jeans shut down.
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Post by brotherleelove on Feb 16, 2022 13:07:50 GMT
Hanley is dead. Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating. Dead yet two more large hotels have been built recently in Hanley. To go with what was the old Grand Hotel which has existed for ages. Who the fuck stays in them and why ? |
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Feb 16, 2022 13:08:08 GMT
Hanley is dead. Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating. I hate to say it but the council needs to go on a massive compulsary purchase buying spree and level most of the place and start again. It is actually the only way any real improvement will take place. They should be approaching the likes of Zara, John Lewis, Apple etc and say weāll offer a 75% rent reduction for a year to get them in, thereās some massive units now vacant and theyād attract people, once thereās more footfall then the smaller units can be snapped up, again at a reduced rate for a year and once the footfall is back even the normal rent would be acceptable. Make the potteries multi-storey either free or 50p for the day and watch people come back. Piccadilly has some good bars on it along with Klay and the Slamwich Club etc. But the potteries centre is a vast hulking turd sounding itās death rattle currently. Build the arena alongside the above and weād be well up to speed, however one of the biggest drawbacks of this other than the council will be our own residents. āWhat are you building that for?ā āWell thatāll look great in this shitholeā Weāre so bereft of people with vision in this city itās fucking depressing, have some gumption about you for fucks sake weāre not in the 1960ās still. |
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Post by cheadlepotter on Feb 16, 2022 13:10:09 GMT
Hopefully the new arena helps to revive Hanley because itās a dump right now. The Potteries Centre is the worst Iāve ever known it to be and what surrounds it is a mess too. Obviously weāre a smaller city than the likes of Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool but weāre so far behind itās depressing. I was actually slightly hopeful when InTu took over with then running Trafford Centre etc but it's not been that successful and really is a dive now. Haven't been there at all since Covid other than to go the cinema Yeah youād expect better but Iād imagine the backward council have some control over it. Quite why folk pay to go into it I donāt know and now the places vacated by decent shops will be filled with independents and anyone who has seen what replaced Peacocks (which wasnāt that great either) will see what happens there. And it wouldnāt matter who was in control with all the pondlife surrounding it. My wife popped into the shopping centre for half an hour this morning and I stayed in the car outside where the mini market and shoe shop is. In that time I saw a couple with a cheap can of lager each stumbling down the road, a man with a bottle of blue WKD in each hand stumbling up the road, and a man arguing with a window. On my last visit there was a drunk/drugged up lady singing in the doorway to NatWest and somebody running out of the centre after presumably robbing something as the staff were filming him on their phone. I sat there singing to myself āHamletās a shithole I want to go homeā. |
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Post by cheadlepotter on Feb 16, 2022 13:13:07 GMT
I hate to say it but the council needs to go on a massive compulsary purchase buying spree and level most of the place and start again. It is actually the only way any real improvement will take place. They should be approaching the likes of Zara, John Lewis, Apple etc and say weāll offer a 75% rent reduction for a year to get them in, thereās some massive units now vacant and theyād attract people, once thereās more footfall then the smaller units can be snapped up, again at a reduced rate for a year and once the footfall is back even the normal rent would be acceptable. Make the potteries multi-storey either free or 50p for the day and watch people come back. Piccadilly has some good bars on it along with Klay and the Slamwich Club etc. But the potteries centre is a vast hulking turd sounding itās death rattle currently. Build the arena alongside the above and weād be well up to speed, however one of the biggest drawbacks of this other than the council will be our own residents. āWhat are you building that for?ā āWell thatāll look great in this shitholeā Weāre so bereft of people with vision in this city itās fucking depressing, have some gumption about you for fucks sake weāre not in the 1960ās still. You only have to look at the comments on social media whenever a story about shopping turns up, be it Hanley or in my experience Cheadleā¦āwhat we need is a good marketā. Someone please invent a time machine for this lot! |
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Feb 16, 2022 13:17:00 GMT
They should be approaching the likes of Zara, John Lewis, Apple etc and say weāll offer a 75% rent reduction for a year to get them in, thereās some massive units now vacant and theyād attract people, once thereās more footfall then the smaller units can be snapped up, again at a reduced rate for a year and once the footfall is back even the normal rent would be acceptable. Make the potteries multi-storey either free or 50p for the day and watch people come back. Piccadilly has some good bars on it along with Klay and the Slamwich Club etc. But the potteries centre is a vast hulking turd sounding itās death rattle currently. Build the arena alongside the above and weād be well up to speed, however one of the biggest drawbacks of this other than the council will be our own residents. āWhat are you building that for?ā āWell thatāll look great in this shitholeā Weāre so bereft of people with vision in this city itās fucking depressing, have some gumption about you for fucks sake weāre not in the 1960ās still. You only have to look at the comments on social media whenever a story about shopping turns up, be it Hanley or in my experience Cheadleā¦āwhat we need is a good marketā. Someone please invent a time machine for this lot! Absolutely boils my piss, the best thing we can do for Hanley in the short term is to blow up the sentinels building and stop them posting such utter utter shite. |
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Post by thevoid on Feb 16, 2022 13:27:09 GMT
Silly comment. I'm sure the employees mind. |
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Post by thevoid on Feb 16, 2022 13:32:42 GMT
Hanley is dead. Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating. Dead yet two more large hotels have been built recently in Hanley. To go with what was the old Grand Hotel which has existed for ages. Who the fuck stays in them and why ? No doubt some of the rooms will get sourced out to the Brighter Futures crowd, just like the George in Burslem. Not sure why Hanley needs a Hilton when it can't even keep a Yates' Wine Lodge or Walkabout! |
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Post by thevoid on Feb 16, 2022 14:01:29 GMT
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Post by richie22 on Feb 16, 2022 14:18:14 GMT
why canāt they offer the old sainsburys site to Lidl , keep retail in what is a retail area and push for leisure services toward the canal, I detest how are council throw anything anywhere, there thinking is all over the place, maybe give the former johnson site over to the parks and extend Hanley park abit , develop the moorings. |
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Post by cheadlepotter on Feb 16, 2022 14:49:01 GMT
why canāt they offer the old sainsburys site to Lidl , keep retail in what is a retail area and push for leisure services toward the canal, I detest how are council throw anything anywhere, there thinking is all over the place, maybe give the former johnson site over to the parks and extend Hanley park abit , develop the moorings. I think I can use another football song hereā¦ āYou donāt know what youāre doingā. |
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Post by thevoid on Feb 16, 2022 15:29:06 GMT
why canāt they offer the old sainsburys site to Lidl , keep retail in what is a retail area and push for leisure services toward the canal, I detest how are council throw anything anywhere, there thinking is all over the place, maybe give the former johnson site over to the parks and extend Hanley park abit , develop the moorings. You'd think so wouldn't you, Sainsbury's would be ideal for another supermarket chain to move into. Other cities have canalside developments, bars, eateries etc. We'll probably get a bloody Lidl š Still, at least there's a captive audience in Hanley for Lidl |
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Post by yyy on Feb 16, 2022 15:47:15 GMT
Today's generation are growing up without a city centre shopping experience. it'll all be converted into apartments in the next 10 years unless the parking becomes free and council subsidise business rent to get businesses off the ground. Kfc right in the heart of hanley town centre next to the sir stan statue says it all.
Tragic failure, on par with scfc's fall from grace
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Post by heworksardtho on Feb 16, 2022 15:53:50 GMT
Looks like the new multi storey they have built will be a white elephant š
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Post by thevoid on Feb 16, 2022 17:20:55 GMT
Today's generation are growing up without a city centre shopping experience. it'll all be converted into apartments in the next 10 years unless the parking becomes free and council subsidise business rent to get businesses off the ground. Kfc right in the heart of hanley town centre next to the sir stan statue says it all. Tragic failure, on par with scfc's fall from grace Just like banking, everything's online now. Shopping online's great don't get me wrong but sometimes it's nice to have a mooch round, grab a pint and some lunch etc. Plus you can get your items straight away and it's jobs as well. There was recent talk of Boots closing too. |
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Post by werrington on Feb 16, 2022 17:53:42 GMT
Looks like the new multi storey they have built will be a white elephant š Thatās been built as you have to have parking facilities in order to attract events etc for when the new arena gets built |
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