Twitter twaddle (From York Press)
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Twitter twaddle
11:03am Monday 29th October 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
IT IS commonly recognised that a considerable amount of nonsense is spouted in the Twittersphere, even by people who should know better.
So when one councillor commented that the Bonding Warehouse was unsuitable for a centre for the creative industries because of flooding, it should have been disregarded as Twitter twaddle.
Any reuse of that superb historic building will need to take into account that it is likely to flood, due to climate change and channels cut upstream to sluice water into the rivers.
This shouldn’t be an obstacle.
Take The Basement Bar at City Screen as an example. It reopened for a burlesque show less than a week after the recent flooding because the renovation of the former Yorkshire Herald building in 2000 had taken annual flooding into account.
No, the real problem with The Bonding Warehouse is not the flooding, but the reluctance of its owner to sell the building back to the council at the price he paid for it, plus a little interest.
Dave Taylor, Green Party councillor for Fishergate, New Walk Terrace, York
Oaklands Resident says...
11:42am Mon 29 Oct 12
Any tanking work on the latter would have to be done internally, meaning that access would be impeded during floods.
The Council is reported to have sold the building about 5 years ago for over £1 million. The current owner will have paid less than that as a speculative punt when plans for residential and office use had to be abandoned.
But the real issue is whether over £3 million of taxpayer’s money should be spent on the digital workshop project at a time when there are starter units lying empty at Clifton Moor and when here are several other buildings, with the potential to provide this type of space, available in the City centre at a fraction of the Bonding Warehouse costs.
The buildings owners should be looking for an exhibition/leisure type use for the upper floors of the Bonding Warehouse. The City needs a new tourist attraction. It’s no disaster if a leisure attraction had to be closed for a week or two each year.
Warehouse.