Prescott, the Architect & some drugs...
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I love Prezza, he's ace.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4187409.stm
Alas, his notions for the development of man are at best, somewhat incongruous.
I just wonder how many of Yorkshire's finer denizens are quite so full of gag for the delights of subtle Italian living, once their fair vistas are filled will the sight of rambling terracotta and excitable younga men upon Lambrtetta's irritating wheel?
Perhaps old blue collar John has rather forgotten his roots and imbibed too much of the red stuff with Cherie & Co upon the terrace of Magnate X's Villa Belissimo?
...and the proposal for Liverpool's sea-bourne expansion too, struck me as peculiar - I never knew JP was a subscriber to Boris J's rag?
Abject piffle when many of the recipients need simple bales of straw.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4187409.stm
Alas, his notions for the development of man are at best, somewhat incongruous.
I just wonder how many of Yorkshire's finer denizens are quite so full of gag for the delights of subtle Italian living, once their fair vistas are filled will the sight of rambling terracotta and excitable younga men upon Lambrtetta's irritating wheel?
Perhaps old blue collar John has rather forgotten his roots and imbibed too much of the red stuff with Cherie & Co upon the terrace of Magnate X's Villa Belissimo?
...and the proposal for Liverpool's sea-bourne expansion too, struck me as peculiar - I never knew JP was a subscriber to Boris J's rag?
Abject piffle when many of the recipients need simple bales of straw.
Half of my family are from Barnsley. They've all moved out now. And I'm sure that Prescott's interpretation of 'Tuscan Hill Village' simply means 'pedestrianised', as everything else in his addled brain is.
How, exactly, do you compare somewhere like Siena, quite possibly one of the most beautiful places I've had the opportunity to visit, with a slightly run-down ex-mining town that's since been swallowed up by Sheffield's urban expansion?
How, exactly, do you compare somewhere like Siena, quite possibly one of the most beautiful places I've had the opportunity to visit, with a slightly run-down ex-mining town that's since been swallowed up by Sheffield's urban expansion?
GregE240 said:
"Barnsley could be remodelled as a Tuscan hill village"
Priceless.
A future career as a fiction writer beckons?
I now have this image of Islington types buying up all the land around Barnsley to turn it into a 'luxury painters retreat' or some such yellow spectacled nonsense.
v8thunder said:
Half of my family are from Barnsley. They've all moved out now. And I'm sure that Prescott's interpretation of 'Tuscan Hill Village' simply means 'pedestrianised', as everything else in his addled brain is.
How, exactly, do you compare somewhere like Siena, quite possibly one of the most beautiful places I've had the opportunity to visit, with a slightly run-down ex-mining town that's since been swallowed up by Sheffield's urban expansion?
My wife and her family are from there too!
tWho in their right mind would want to 'Live in Hull, work in Liverpool, shop in Leeds and party in Manchester'? I thought this government were keen on reducing traffic? It's a fair hike from Hull to Liverpool and back each day (on the M62 - well known as a free-running road, devoid of any significant traffic), then after a quick shower, zipping most of the way back to down a few scoops in Manchester. Madness.
The Gist I got was:
"The southern Nimby's are too well organised to get planning applications for new towns through, Minister"
"Never mind Humphrey, I've got a plan, we'll urbanise the pennine hills along the m62 corridor, then the locals can earn a crust selling pie and peas to motorists and cleaning their windscreens while they're stuck in jams"
"Brilliant Minister, I think it'll need a little dressing up to sell it to the Tykes and Scousers though."
"Keep showing the foreign holiday property programs and we'll remodel Barnsley as a Tuscan hill village."
<---- Tone.
"The southern Nimby's are too well organised to get planning applications for new towns through, Minister"
"Never mind Humphrey, I've got a plan, we'll urbanise the pennine hills along the m62 corridor, then the locals can earn a crust selling pie and peas to motorists and cleaning their windscreens while they're stuck in jams"
"Brilliant Minister, I think it'll need a little dressing up to sell it to the Tykes and Scousers though."
"Keep showing the foreign holiday property programs and we'll remodel Barnsley as a Tuscan hill village."
<---- Tone. 
Biff Byford, 50 years years old if he's a day and hirsute (formerly spandex suffering) front man of incomprehensibly underachieving heavy metal band, Saxon, also hails from said northern citadel.
Saxon's purple patch is oft mooted to have been the 1982 release of their double live classic, 'The Eagle Has Landed,' however purists generally feel the second outpouring, 'Strong Arm of The Law' had more to offer.
(Sorry but any tenuous excuse to insert a cheeky snifter of metal has to be grasped with both gauntlets, especially steel fabricated stuff.)
"Talkin' 'bout maa wheels of steel, ya gret poof!"
Where is the boy O'Donnell when you need him? A Yorkshirist through & through.
Saxon's purple patch is oft mooted to have been the 1982 release of their double live classic, 'The Eagle Has Landed,' however purists generally feel the second outpouring, 'Strong Arm of The Law' had more to offer.
(Sorry but any tenuous excuse to insert a cheeky snifter of metal has to be grasped with both gauntlets, especially steel fabricated stuff.)
"Talkin' 'bout maa wheels of steel, ya gret poof!"
Where is the boy O'Donnell when you need him? A Yorkshirist through & through.
I nearly did myself an injury, I was laughing so hard when I heard this on the radio this morning. The Barnsley as Tuscan hill village line is one of the best one-liners I've ever heard.
As for the assertion that people in the region already see it as one big joined-up area, that is utter bollocks.
Then there's the brilliant innovation of "The Stack", a high rise building for 5000 people. Now where have I heard such brilliant ideas before? Oh yes, there were all those lovely high-rise flats built in the 60s. They were a great success, weren't they?
And this lot are going to win another election this year. I despair!
>> Edited by Zod on Thursday 20th January 14:15
As for the assertion that people in the region already see it as one big joined-up area, that is utter bollocks.
Then there's the brilliant innovation of "The Stack", a high rise building for 5000 people. Now where have I heard such brilliant ideas before? Oh yes, there were all those lovely high-rise flats built in the 60s. They were a great success, weren't they?
And this lot are going to win another election this year. I despair!
>> Edited by Zod on Thursday 20th January 14:15
GregE240 said:
"Barnsley could be remodelled as a Tuscan hill village"
Will we get a race track too?
BBC article said:
Mr Alsop insists that local identity would not be lost in such a megalopolis.
"I will have totally failed if it was homogenised all across the country," he said.
Sounds like the guy is planning the urban equivalent of the food halls in shopping malls with their various 'flavours'
Actually I'm going to go against the flow and say that this scheme sounds excellent, if a little too limited in scope. Putting Liverpool into the sea and walls around Barnsley is an excellent start, however I feel that Doncaster should be remodelled into a subterranean wonderland and Oldham could be flooded to provide leisure facilities for the new conurbation.
softwaresorcerer said:
Who in their right mind would want to 'Live in Hull, work in Liverpool, shop in Leeds and party in Manchester'? I thought this government were keen on reducing traffic? It's a fair hike from Hull to Liverpool and back each day (on the M62 - well known as a free-running road, devoid of any significant traffic), then after a quick shower, zipping most of the way back to down a few scoops in Manchester. Madness.
And then driving home, all kegged up. I've heard of some crackpot schemes before, but this is both stupidity and madness. I don't want to live in a massive conurbation, dotted with designed-under-the-influence-of-acid monoliths. I love my home-town and it's beautiful suurroundings the way it is! And I definately don't want to live where I might come into daily contact with scum from Leeds and Liverpool
wolves_wanderer said:
Actually I'm going to go against the flow and say that this scheme sounds excellent, if a little too limited in scope. Putting Liverpool into the sea and walls around Barnsley is an excellent start, however I feel that Doncaster should be remodelled into a subterranean wonderland and Oldham could be flooded to provide leisure facilities for the new conurbation.
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