From:
charlie bolton
Date:
Apr 11 16:32 UTC
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I have just spoken to a developer (or is it architect) based in London. Name:
Steven Jones of Parkridge Homes (Southern) Ltd
They have put in a pre-application for the Gala Bingo, and apparently has a
contract with the owners (subject to planning consent, I believe) to
1. Demolish the existing site
2. Build 40 flats, 25 parking spaces
3. Keep the ground floor for retail use (3000 sq ft) (not a pub, he suggested)
He said an application is likely in the next month or so, and after then, they
may (or presumeably may not) come down and explain their proposals. (I think he
was a bit taken aback to be rung up by me at 5pm on a Friday night)
I said the future of Gala Bingo is causing a lot of interest locally, and
suggested coming and talking may help.
Would anyone like to meet up to have a chat about it?
Charlie Bolton
Green Party Councillor
Southville
From:
Ben barker
Date:
Apr 12 07:14 UTC
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Well done Charlie, I'd like to meet up for a chat. When do you have in
mind? Ben.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Bolton" <<email obscured>>
To: <<email obscured>>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: [GB-Forum] Gala Bingo
>I have just spoken to a developer (or is it architect) based in London.
>Name: Steven Jones of Parkridge Homes (Southern) Ltd
>
> They have put in a pre-application for the Gala Bingo, and apparently has
> a contract with the owners (subject to planning consent, I believe) to
>
> 1. Demolish the existing site
> 2. Build 40 flats, 25 parking spaces
> 3. Keep the ground floor for retail use (3000 sq ft) (not a pub, he
> suggested)
>
>
>
> He said an application is likely in the next month or so, and after then,
> they may (or presumeably may not) come down and explain their proposals.
> (I think he was a bit taken aback to be rung up by me at 5pm on a Friday
> night)
>
> I said the future of Gala Bingo is causing a lot of interest locally, and
> suggested coming and talking may help.
>
> Would anyone like to meet up to have a chat about it?
>
> Charlie Bolton
> Green Party Councillor
> Southville
>
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From:
Jess Wright
Date:
Apr 12 09:34 UTC
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Hi Charlie, yes I would be interested in finding out more, possibly
some others from North St who aren't on the forum. If you get a time/
date please let me know and I'll pass it on, Jess.
On 11 Apr 2008, at 17:32, Charles Bolton wrote:
> I have just spoken to a developer (or is it architect) based in
> London. Name: Steven Jones of Parkridge Homes (Southern) Ltd
>
> They have put in a pre-application for the Gala Bingo, and
> apparently has a contract with the owners (subject to planning
> consent, I believe) to
>
> 1. Demolish the existing site
> 2. Build 40 flats, 25 parking spaces
> 3. Keep the ground floor for retail use (3000 sq ft) (not a pub, he
> suggested)
>
>
>
> He said an application is likely in the next month or so, and after
> then, they may (or presumeably may not) come down and explain their
> proposals. (I think he was a bit taken aback to be rung up by me at
> 5pm on a Friday night)
>
> I said the future of Gala Bingo is causing a lot of interest
> locally, and suggested coming and talking may help.
>
> Would anyone like to meet up to have a chat about it?
>
> Charlie Bolton
> Green Party Councillor
> Southville
>
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From:
charlie bolton
Date:
Apr 14 14:26 UTC
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Next week? Early evening? Say 6pm Tuesday? Wednesday?
Circles, if possible. Failing that, somewhere close to Gala.
I have spoken to Kevin Morley the planning officer who says this is early days,
and they were 'surprised' that no account has been taken of any possible
architectural merit of the existing buidling.
I think we should produce our shopping list of what we do and don't want to
happen at the site, and feed it in
Charlie Bolton
Green Party Councillor
Southville
>>> "Ben Barker" <<email obscured>> 12/04/08 08:06 >>>
Well done Charlie, I'd like to meet up for a chat. When do you have in
mind? Ben.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Bolton" <<email obscured>>
To: <<email obscured>>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: [GB-Forum] Gala Bingo
>I have just spoken to a developer (or is it architect) based in London.
>Name: Steven Jones of Parkridge Homes (Southern) Ltd
>
> They have put in a pre-application for the Gala Bingo, and apparently has
> a contract with the owners (subject to planning consent, I believe) to
>
> 1. Demolish the existing site
> 2. Build 40 flats, 25 parking spaces
> 3. Keep the ground floor for retail use (3000 sq ft) (not a pub, he
> suggested)
>
>
>
> He said an application is likely in the next month or so, and after then,
> they may (or presumeably may not) come down and explain their proposals.
> (I think he was a bit taken aback to be rung up by me at 5pm on a Friday
> night)
>
> I said the future of Gala Bingo is causing a lot of interest locally, and
> suggested coming and talking may help.
>
> Would anyone like to meet up to have a chat about it?
>
> Charlie Bolton
> Green Party Councillor
> Southville
>
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From:
Roger Horwood
Date:
May 14 06:17 UTC
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Walked past the Gala Bingo site yesterday evening (on my way to the pub to
watch a football match of some local significance) and noticed it's now
sporting a "For Sale" sign from Wright Silverwood chartered surveyors
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk>. Doesn't seem to be on their current list
of properties yet at
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk/propertiesFrameset-3.htm> but i assume it
will be soon.
From:
charlie bolton
Date:
May 16 14:58 UTC
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Todays Evening Post refers to the plans for 40 flats. The developer says they
have been in touch with local business.
Have they?
Here is the link
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=20638623&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922
Charlie Bolton
Green Party Councillor
Southville
>>> <email obscured> 05/14/08 7:18 AM >>>
Walked past the Gala Bingo site yesterday evening (on my way to the pub to
watch a football match of some local significance) and noticed it's now
sporting a "For Sale" sign from Wright Silverwood chartered surveyors
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk>. Doesn't seem to be on their current list
of properties yet at
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk/propertiesFrameset-3.htm> but i assume it
will be soon.
Roger.
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From:
Roger Horwood
Date:
Jul 08 05:48 UTC
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Just checked the "properties" page
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk/propertiesFrameset-3.htm> on Wright
Silverwood's website and the Gala Bingo site still isn't on it. Which maybe
suggests they're not really all that interested in selling it at the moment?
Given the current property market, i think it might stay empty for a while.
It's attracted a few flyposters now. I'm a bit surprised it hasn't attracted
more graffiti yet. Maybe we should try to attract some serious street artists
to decorate the boarded-up entrance and windows before they gets covered in
aerosol scribbles?
From:
Cecilia Weightman
Date:
Jul 08 06:12 UTC
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Decorating Gala Bingo with the "help" of graffiti
writers will increase the amount of tagging etc on the
surrounding properties. By "trying" to attract
graffiti writers to decorate the property you would
actually be potenitally encouraging them to cause
criminal damage as it would be extremely doubtful that
the property owners or their agents would condone the
use of graffiti on a property that is on the open
market. Just because it is not on their website
doesn't mean that they are not actively promoting it.
Last nights audit of North Street was, in part, about
reducing graffiti in the area and not encouraging it.
There are several different agencies in the area
trying their hardest to tackle the graffiti problem,
we shouldn't be seen to be doing anything that will
encourage it in the slightest.
Cecilia
--- Roger H <<email obscured>> wrote:
> Just checked the "properties" page
>
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk/propertiesFrameset-3.htm>
> on Wright Silverwood's website and the Gala Bingo
> site still isn't on it. Which maybe suggests they're
> not really all that interested in selling it at the
> moment? Given the current property market, i think
> it might stay empty for a while.
>
> It's attracted a few flyposters now. I'm a bit
> surprised it hasn't attracted more graffiti yet.
> Maybe we should try to attract some serious street
> artists to decorate the boarded-up entrance and
> windows before they gets covered in aerosol
> scribbles?
>
>
> Roger H
> Bedminster, Bristol
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From:
Roger Horwood
Date:
Aug 22 06:46 UTC
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Ok, it appears i was unduly pessimistic about how much tagging the Gala Bingo
site would attrac (still only fly posters so far), so perhaps it isn't
appropriate here, but the council's Clean & Green Team project officer agrees
that murals by street artists can be a successful approach to discouraging
tagging on heavily tagged sites:
<http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Bristol-sets-example-tackling-graffiti/article-266987-detail/article.html>
Denise James, the council's clean and green team project officer, said: ...
"We used a young artist and ex-graffiti offender to put up a mural in an area
that had previously been covered by tagging.
"It's been very successful and has not suffered any attacks since it was put up
in 2005."
--- Cecilia Weightman wrote:
Decorating Gala Bingo with the "help" of graffiti
writers will increase the amount of tagging etc on the
surrounding properties. By "trying" to attract
graffiti writers to decorate the property you would
actually be potenitally encouraging them to cause
criminal damage as it would be extremely doubtful that
the property owners or their agents would condone the
use of graffiti on a property that is on the open
market. Just because it is not on their website
doesn't mean that they are not actively promoting it.
Last nights audit of North Street was, in part, about
reducing graffiti in the area and not encouraging it.
There are several different agencies in the area
trying their hardest to tackle the graffiti problem,
we shouldn't be seen to be doing anything that will
encourage it in the slightest.
Cecilia
--- Roger H wrote:
> Just checked the "properties" page
>
<http://www.wrightsilverwood.co.uk/propertiesFrameset-3.htm>
> on Wright Silverwood's website and the Gala Bingo
> site still isn't on it. Which maybe suggests they're
> not really all that interested in selling it at the
> moment? Given the current property market, i think
> it might stay empty for a while.
>
> It's attracted a few flyposters now. I'm a bit
> surprised it hasn't attracted more graffiti yet.
> Maybe we should try to attract some serious street
> artists to decorate the boarded-up entrance and
> windows before they gets covered in aerosol
> scribbles?
>
>
> Roger H
> Bedminster, Bristol
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