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-OY- wrote:

Tommy Two Stroke wrote:

You don't know whoo Mr Sledge is ?

Well I will tell you, because he is a man who is a legend in his own dinnertime

What we actually need is a Civil Engineer who knows how these things work

I used to be a Civil Engineer many years ago for 'them men'.

Hmmmm.... Sledge - cricket - Hmmm....

-OY- wrote:I used to be a Civil Engineer many years ago for 'them men'.

Hmmmm.... Sledge - cricket - Hmmm....

I was thinking more along the lines of him being this mon LINK a Spaghetti Westerner, a leg end in his own lunchtime, because he did used to shoot from the hip, but I wish I had never mentioned him now  

-OY- wrote:I used to be a Civil Engineer many years ago for 'them men'.

Hmmmm.... Sledge - cricket - Hmmm....

Rats are good civil engineers

Naughty Mitten wrote:

-OY- wrote:I used to be a Civil Engineer many years ago for 'them men'.

Hmmmm.... Sledge - cricket - Hmmm....

Rats are good civil engineers

I think you mean MICE

Mice tunnels are much smaller than rats

Rats could have built the channel tunnel in half the time that it took

Naughty Mitten wrote:Mice tunnels are much smaller than rats

Rats could have built the channel tunnel in half the time that it took

Well I don't know

Maybe a Civil Engineer would know

Tommy Two Stroke wrote:

Naughty Mitten wrote:Mice tunnels are much smaller than rats

Rats could have built the channel tunnel in half the time that it took

Well I don't know

Maybe a Civil Engineer would know

Or the new town centre

Wigan town centre to get its own Hilton hotel.

Wigan Council, in collaboration with its development partner Cityheart, has signed a franchise agreement with the international chain for a Hampton by Hilton branded 144-bedroom, 5,800 m2 hotel, as part of the £135 million redevelopment of the former shopping centre.

Designed by JM Architects, the hotel will be a six-storey building located off Market Street in Wigan’s town centre and will be managed and operated by Leaf Hospitality

https://www.wigantoday.net/news/people/exclusive-wigan-town-centre-to-get-its-own-hilton-hotel-4554397?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1710349565-1

Lolly wrote:Wigan town centre to get its own Hilton hotel.

Wigan Council, in collaboration with its development partner Cityheart, has signed a franchise agreement with the international chain for a Hampton by Hilton branded 144-bedroom, 5,800 m2 hotel, as part of the £135 million redevelopment of the former shopping centre.

Designed by JM Architects, the hotel will be a six-storey building located off Market Street in Wigan’s town centre and will be managed and operated by Leaf Hospitality

https://www.wigantoday.net/news/people/exclusive-wigan-town-centre-to-get-its-own-hilton-hotel-4554397?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1710349565-1

So in view of that information, and my rant from last week, a franchised situation, so the developers will build the hotel and rent it out to the hotel operator, but the hotel operator will still have to stump up some substantial cash to get the thing open, and so who or what organisation will pay for it's construction, and where will it's customers park ?

"where will it's customers park"...from TTS's post above....

This has been my bone of contention for quite a while. I still insist that free parking (for shoppers) and low rents for vendors is the key to a prosperous Wigan town centre.

Maybe I should run for the council...Who is with me?.................

There's a big hole that might be useful TTS

Credit Colin Traynor

Lolly wrote:There's a big hole that might be useful TTS

Well the plans are for 225 podium parking spaces to be built for the flats, and I think that the underground area will be utilised by having maybe three levels of car parking, that is what the podium bit means, like a mezzanine floor in a building space, and each parking space will be only for vehicles with a maximum height of 2.4m, I have heard that part of the podium parking will actually be above ground, it is like a stacking system for cars, but I have heard of no plans for a public car park down there or one for the hotel, as regards the hotel and pavilion shopping area, I would imagine that they will want a basement area, so it's a lot to fit in down there, here is a video of the underground service area by the ever popular Mick Byrne.

Admin wrote:"where will it's customers park"...from TTS's post above....

This has been my bone of contention for quite a while. I still insist that free parking (for shoppers) and low rents for vendors is the key to a prosperous Wigan town centre.

Maybe I should run for the council...Who is with me?.................

I will be 'with yoo' I will run your election campaign for you

Two looneys together

Lolly wrote:Two looneys together