Your reaction to Stoke-on-Trent City Council's new civic centre design
NHS worker Adam Whittaker, aged 40, from Longton, works in Piccadilly, Hanley.
He said: "It's very impressive. It will be a great development for Hanley, and in a part that needs it. I hope it will bring more footfall to the bottom of the city centre, and businesses will start to reappear where they have closed down."
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An artist's impression of the proposed civic centre in Hanley.
Luke Stanyer, aged 25, from Kidsgrove, also works for the NHS sexual health team in Piccadilly.
He said: "The development will attract people from other areas and hopefully we will be able to compete with some of the big cities. The design of the building is great for the time being, but I think it could look dated in a few years.
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Graham Barrett, aged 61, from Stoke, is part of group Save Our Stoke.
He said: "Once they bring this monstrosity here it will kill the business in other towns. The design is rubbish. They are concentrating too much on Hanley. We are trying to save the rest of the towns."
Hanley resident Paul Breeze, aged 60, is chairman of Hanley One Residents' Association and a city councillor.
He said: "I've got mixed feelings about it. I quite like the design and I can see the pros of it, but it is costing a lot of money.
"But it is going ahead anyway so we are going to have to embrace it."
Richard Snell, aged 66, from Stoke, is also a member of Save Our Stoke.
He said: "This is a shambles for all kinds of reasons. They are borrowing all this money for these buildings when they are making cuts everywhere. The design is inappropriate – it looks like it is made of plastic. It doesn't look like a government office, it looks like a nursery."
Comments
by camband
Saturday, November 03 2012, 11:19AM
“by MusicHallFan
"Why are there multiple sites for commenting on this monstrosity - all this does is diminish any balance of the comment ans allow the council to pick and choose which one they want to take as "public opinion". Just one comment area please on this monstrosity." Unquote.
Probably a ploy ordered from on high by the H A R M S W O R T H lobby.... and they take orders from the R O T H E R M E R E family.
I have to use 'spaces' for the two words above -otherwise they'd be shown like this:- *********** and **********.
Does the latter help in understanding where I'm coming from?”
by I_Norris
Saturday, November 03 2012, 9:00AM
“Musichallfan: you have until 8th November to submit your views to genr8 forms can be collected from civic sentre and posted or from hanley library and left in suggestion box there”
by warren-lloyd
Saturday, November 03 2012, 6:47AM
“I see a age difference hear, any old coggers just don't get it do they. Ohhhhh, that was very bad of me, give me red arrows now. I'm a very bad boy indeed, but its what I'm finding as I talk to people.”
by MusicHallFan
Friday, November 02 2012, 4:27PM
“Why are there multiple sites for commenting on this monstrosity - all this does is diminish any balance of the comment ans allow the council to pick and choose which one they want to take as "public opinion". Just one comment area please on this monstrosity.”
by Jolyteddy
Friday, November 02 2012, 4:11PM
“LewisL, there will probably be free parking, with private bays, for the highly paid and the plebs will be told to travel by bus, though there may be a few cycle racks provided,for a nominal fee.”
by InsiderOut
Friday, November 02 2012, 2:41PM
“Graham Barrett and Richard Snell are the most positive people in the City. They have really impressive ideas for regeneration and development. Their plans are free and achievable in a short period of time. Why does no-one listen to them? I hope they both become fantastic councillors and brilliant advocates for our great City”
by Juzzah
Friday, November 02 2012, 1:00PM
“This is an ugly waste of money, it already looks dated and it hasn't even been built yet!!!”
by LewisL
Friday, November 02 2012, 12:48PM
“This is all good and well, but where are all the staff who will be based in this building going to park?? There is no way they can provide enough parking for all the staff who work for SOT CC in one place. Have the planners actually thought about issues like this?! There is NO need for this move. There is nothing wrong with existing facilities, this is nothing but a waste of money!”
by britpark
Friday, November 02 2012, 11:37AM
“Someone needs to tell our Councillors that times are hard and they already have a perfectly good monstosity in Stoke. But then again, they are on another planet!”