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I've said it all along that I'd be amazed if the Bedlington scheme finishes and looks anything like it was planned.......Its been a balls up from start to finish, may as well start building the cheapo housing on the site now

And after watching the new series on ITV "HOTEL CUSTODY" I'm surprised its as high as that

https://www.itv.com/hub/hotel-custody/10a1079 worth a watch to see how the guests 🙄 are treated because at the end of each episode most get a slap on the wrist and no further action, no wonder this country has gone to 💩

Probably the same little ba5tard5 who cause havoc all over Bedlington...........find and birch them........but no doubt the little darlings will be slapped on the wrist

Nice ......fingers crossed for fantastic weather that weekend

I've said it before and i will say it again there is no space for 3 supermarkets in Bedlington.......Northumberland Council/Arch/Advance Northumberland or whoever should have tried to tempt  Morrison's with free/reduced rent/rates etc to move to new development

The current Morrison's shop would be easy to find new tenant/owner as it could changed to 2/3 smaller units if necessary, no other food retailers will come to Bedlington now that Aldi (allegedly) have pulled the plug.To be honest i fully expect the site will be completed  eventually but it will be all cheap housing and car park 

3 hours ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

Tesco wasn't blocked????????  The only quotes they had were off their own builders and no one else saw them.  

It looked to be a national strategic decision by Tesco to stop all new builds and try and refocus what they already had because their share price had bombed out.  

The whole of Front Street is a conservation area........they way thats been handled of late doesn't warrant the paper its written down on!  There are no listed buildings.  

 

The build has started........?  

Sorry to be picky here but Tesco would have had a new store built long before they announced closures if they had got plans approved

 The way i understood it was some numpty decided the old buildings were worthy of some sort of listing even though one of them had a horrible 60s facade covering the original building.Tesco were quoted stupid amounts to knock down/expand into the Coop building which would have resulted in a shop which still would have needed two entrances to accommodate the rear car park.

If they hadn't been blocked from knocking down the entire site when the wanted a new shop would have been on the site when they announced 40 shops were closing.The Bedlington shop was was hitting its targets and more but was put on the closure list because the entire building was literally falling down (major leaks in roofs and damp issue in upper floors) and would cost a fortune to repair/bodge

"The way this development has been set up means only the units which have agreed tenants will be built, thats one of the reasons its taken so long"......well its going to take an awful long time to build then

Was discussing this in pub over the weekend and most of us came to the conclusion this development is going to be a failure.......main thing we all agreed on was who on earth is going to take on all the small units

If Tesco had been allowed to knock down the old presto and coop and build new supermarket there would have been a few small units at the front as oppose to this new development which has loads of small shops.And bearing in mind we don't need any more of the shops i mentioned in previous post we really struggled to think of any new uses for those small shops

So no doubt the council will be back slapping & congratulating themselves this is doomed to failure and will result in more empty shops in Bedlington

Pleased its going ahead but i'm worried about the calibre of shops that will be opened as we don,t need any more cafes,takeaways,hairdressers,barber shops,tattoo parlours,beauty salons,nail bars & mini marts

Aldi are the big food retailer fair enough.....but who else is going to take up the rest of the shops,we keep hearing about well known high street retailers coming to bedlington but cant for the life of me think who would come here.Knowing our luck the big names will be a Costa Coffee & Clinton's cards instead of butchers bakers & candlestick maker (yeh i know)  

We've lived here since early 90s

https://www.bedlington.co.uk/forums/topic/6015-closed-shops/?tab=comments#comment-60802

Sadly out of town/internet shopping has cause the decline and it will be very hard to get back,but we don't want /need anymore shops I've mentioned above.Iceland would be good,Wilkinson's would be good but that still leaves an awful lot of small shops to fill.....If only the council had pulled its finger out and approved the Tesco redevelopment when it had the chance rather than fanny on for years

Hope they manage to get sorted out.....far to many little scumbags getting away with murder around here at the moment.probably the same ar5eholes who smashed all the refrigeration units at the back of Lidl a few weeks back 

Soon to be evicted.......to the joy of the neighbours but some other poor sod will eventually have them next door 

1 hour ago, webtrekker said:

Why not put locked metal gates at both ends of the subway and lock the scumbags in there for a week or two, seeing as they like the place so much! 

Then turn the lights out and have a wee down the ramp

16 minutes ago, John Fox (foxy) said:

That's fair enough it's not used, the point I'm trying to make is we're giving in to the lowlife. If it weren't for them maybe some would use it....I have a friend who was seriously injured on the Zebra crossing, he would use it.

  

Fair point but the council wont spend thousands making sure all the lights work,disinfected regular,graffiti removed and extra visits  by police/specials

41 minutes ago, John Fox (foxy) said:

Subways throughout the country used by millions daily and Bedlington closes theirs down and allows the lowlife to win. 

Apart from bad lads and scumbags who else uses it......i cross that road a few times a week and never use it....even if it was clean well lit and wee free its quicker using zebra crossing

As a side note the price of real trees has increased a fair bit this year.....same 6 ft tree same size same place last year £30 this year £40 so its up to the attic for artificial one

Anybody got any updates on this seems to have gone quiet