Talks held on a new site for wheel attraction (From York Press)

Why dont you follow the tourism Group to Leeds,Bye Bye then.????

Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application.
If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

pedalling paul wrote:
Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application.
If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

They can still take a hike. There really is nowhere in York suitable for anything like the wheel.
Hey, it was fun while it lasted, but I went on it a few times, and there really was nothing to see from it.
Compare it to the London Eye, which gives you an amazing view of a large metropolis.....

oldgoat wrote:

pedalling paul wrote: Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application. If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

They can still take a hike. There really is nowhere in York suitable for anything like the wheel. Hey, it was fun while it lasted, but I went on it a few times, and there really was nothing to see from it. Compare it to the London Eye, which gives you an amazing view of a large metropolis.....

My god, I agree with oldgoat!

Is it Friday the 13th again already???

Soothsayer0.1 wrote:

oldgoat wrote:

pedalling paul wrote: Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application. If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

They can still take a hike. There really is nowhere in York suitable for anything like the wheel. Hey, it was fun while it lasted, but I went on it a few times, and there really was nothing to see from it. Compare it to the London Eye, which gives you an amazing view of a large metropolis.....

My god, I agree with oldgoat! Is it Friday the 13th again already???

It must be, because I agree with both of you!

It just goes to show what absolute sh** these developers talk tho' - it wasn't that long ago that we were threatened by the owners that unless they had a site identified by some short notice date last year, York would lose the wheel for years because it was committed to be elsewhere. Funny how, when they don't get their own way, the developers go back into talks, despite the threats they make - the Terrys redevelopment being another example.

However, the thought of Wally Waller and Galloway handling the discussions fills me with dread!

Can't remember now why it had to leave it's site at the NRM,to me that was the ideal place for it.
Can't it go back there?

No wheel! Tethered balloon. Go twice as high with less engineering.

See example at http://www.bournemou
thballoon.com/

shartin wrote:
Can't remember now why it had to leave it's site at the NRM,to me that was the ideal place for it. Can't it go back there?

WTA gave up that site because it wasn't attracting enough users particularly in the winter months. They are looking for a site with a higher "footfall"

TELL EM TO GO AWAY!

When they eventually demolish the splash palace they can site the wheel there, then the resident smackheads can mug tourists instead of the locals.

LibDem wrote:

shartin wrote: Can't remember now why it had to leave it's site at the NRM,to me that was the ideal place for it. Can't it go back there?

WTA gave up that site because it wasn't attracting enough users particularly in the winter months. They are looking for a site with a higher "footfall"

Well that as may be, but if there isn't enough footfall at the railway museum, then please, with your inside knowledge, enlighten us as to where they believe there would be enough footfall? I am bemused (sorry Bemused!)as to why they would think there would be more on North Street?

AngryandFrustrated wrote:

LibDem wrote:

shartin wrote: Can't remember now why it had to leave it's site at the NRM,to me that was the ideal place for it. Can't it go back there?

WTA gave up that site because it wasn't attracting enough users particularly in the winter months. They are looking for a site with a higher "footfall"

Well that as may be, but if there isn't enough footfall at the railway museum, then please, with your inside knowledge, enlighten us as to where they believe there would be enough footfall? I am bemused (sorry Bemused!)as to why they would think there would be more on North Street?

Perhaps because there are at least 10 times as many people in the centre of town at some point during the day than there are at the Railway museum?

Hope you are now de-bemused!

WTA have said that they favoured North Street because of the numbers of visitors crossing close by on, for example,Lendal bridge (who would see the Wheel easily and be attracted to it).
The Railway Museum and Leeman Road is quiet for most of the winter. This area will, of course, change dramatically when the "York Central" development gets going.
It does all, however, beg the basic question as to whether a Wheel situated anywhere in York would, "off season", be commercially viable but that would be for the operators to decide.
The tourist industry is keen on the Wheel because it increases the range of activities available for visitors who stay for 2 or 3 nights. It is those visitors who make the biggest contribution to the local economy.

oldgoat wrote:

pedalling paul wrote:
Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application.
If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

They can still take a hike. There really is nowhere in York suitable for anything like the wheel.
Hey, it was fun while it lasted, but I went on it a few times, and there really was nothing to see from it.
Compare it to the London Eye, which gives you an amazing view of a large metropolis.....

Not exactly sure what you expected to see from it this is YORK so you will be able to see YORK from it, not the hanging gardens of Babylon.

Put it on the flattened Barbican site that will delay doing something proper for a few years. How much are they bunging our friends at the council, for a few quid I'll have it in my yard.

From the top of the Minster's Central Tower (on a clear day with good eyesight and/or binoculars) you can already see the North York Moors; the Yorkshire Wolds; the Yorkshire Dales; Emley Moor TV tower; Menwith Hill's "golf balls"; the Humber Bridge; Boothfery Bridge; Goole Dock Cranes; Howden Minster; Selby Abbey; all the power stations between Doncaster and Wakefield and even - at least according to some - Lincoln Cathedral! As old_geezer rightly says; only a tethered balloon could possibly match that!

..I still say it should be pedal powered.

Good One old__geezer....

tonezzzznoddedoff wrote:

oldgoat wrote:

pedalling paul wrote:
Whoa there! Lets all remember that WTA is only dipping its toe in the water at present. Preliminary discussions with a Local Auhority are commonplace, in advance of a major or potentially controversial Planning Application.
If WTA subsequently decide to proceed with a formal application, it will go through the full procedure and be considered eventually by a cross-party Planning Committee.

They can still take a hike. There really is nowhere in York suitable for anything like the wheel.
Hey, it was fun while it lasted, but I went on it a few times, and there really was nothing to see from it.
Compare it to the London Eye, which gives you an amazing view of a large metropolis.....

Not exactly sure what you expected to see from it this is YORK so you will be able to see YORK from it, not the hanging gardens of Babylon.

Further...

If it was so poor, why did you go on it "a few times"?! Surely one trip on it would be sufficient to see "nothing", and perhaps a second trip, to confirm that there is "nothing to see", but a few?! More money than sense...?! It's perhaps people like you who keep these monstrocities in the city - if you don't like it, don't give them money to support it!! It is ludicriously simple.