The Stout Yeoman
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Palace Pier - O/T - Argus Article
- Thread starter StonehamPark
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Here's another one, if you're not enraged enough - Brighton is his methadone!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/29/goodbye-london-moving-to-brighton-house-prices
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/29/goodbye-london-moving-to-brighton-house-prices
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,158
May all his commutes be troublesome
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Insiders view here. I own three shops on the seafront. Each year I spend a lot of money 'updating' the shops to keep with the times. Yes there are two Brightons, the seafront and the North Laines, both completely different in their own way. One problem I have is that with the new i360 the council are making the flow of pedestrians go towards their own areas. West St flow is being forced down to the beach area to the council owned arches.
Then we move on to car parking. £28 for a day. But worse is that there are not enough spaces. Every weekend I get told by people they are not staying as there is no where to park.
Don't change Brighton, it works for 10 million a year, just keep it updated with the times.
Then we move on to car parking. £28 for a day. But worse is that there are not enough spaces. Every weekend I get told by people they are not staying as there is no where to park.
Don't change Brighton, it works for 10 million a year, just keep it updated with the times.
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
- Thread starter
- #25
Leaving my hometown next month as I can't afford to buy a property here (whilst still on a fairly decent wage).
Will move away from football, friends and family, but am stuck in the rent-trap whilst property prices increase monthly.
I don't want to rent anymore.
A bit gutted tbh, but my only hope of owning a home is to leave.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 25,757
It's full of contradictions. Ironically, contradictions is what Brighton is about. But how he can condemn something then talk of its unbridled success is beyond me.
The one thing we all seem to agree on is the need for improvements to the seafront. But if he thinks it means Canary Wharf meets Cardiff Bay then he's most mistaken.
The one thing we all seem to agree on is the need for improvements to the seafront. But if he thinks it means Canary Wharf meets Cardiff Bay then he's most mistaken.
Somewhat ironically, I've just had an email from the the Fringe asking me to pay to become a 'Friend of the Fringe'. I'm guessing the PR department don't speak to the marketing department.
They can blow it out of their arse quite frankly.
They can blow it out of their arse quite frankly.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
I think he is a man who probably should be punched on a regular basis.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Agreed. The man needs to learn his history of the town. A quick read of the likes of Patrick Hamilton and Graham Greene will show him that the town has always had a seedy underbelly and has thrived on the juxtaposition of being home to the achingly cool and also the kiss me quick hats. Keith Waterhouse once wrote that Brighton was the kind of town that looked like it was 'helping police with their enquiries'.
If he wants Amersham or Ascot, he can f*ck off back up to there.
Yeah that must suck.Leaving my hometown next month as I can't afford to buy a property here (whilst still on a fairly decent wage).
Will move away from football, friends and family, but am stuck in the rent-trap whilst property prices increase monthly.
I don't want to rent anymore.
A bit gutted tbh, but my only hope of owning a home is to leave.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Are you Chris Catlin?
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Leaving my hometown next month as I can't afford to buy a property here (whilst still on a fairly decent wage).
Will move away from football, friends and family, but am stuck in the rent-trap whilst property prices increase monthly.
I don't want to rent anymore.
A bit gutted tbh, but my only hope of owning a home is to leave.
Have done the same, but only to Newhaven - so not far away from football! Where are you off to?
darkwolf666
Well-known member
"Brighton has the largest number of day trip visitors of anywhere in the UK after London, mostly due to the pier and pavilion, so there seems to be no shortage of people willing to spend their two pence on those machines, via Sports Direct and Primark on their way back to their coaches."
What a toffee-nosed snob!
What a toffee-nosed snob!
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Too late, he has already nailed his feelings firmly to the mast!
The Albion Roar
97.2FM
This is someone who has no concept of the heritage, culture and history of Brighton.
To think the pier should be made exclusive by adding a 'Michelin-starred' restaurant completely misses the point. Brighton has always been a magnet for high and low-brow visitors - the rich, and the spivs; the Establishment and the criminals. Most of the time, they will rub shoulders. A lot of the time, they are the same people.
If he wants Brighton to thrive, he's got to realise it caters for everyone, not just his ignorant, self-important form of the social elite. All he wants to do is to bring his own blinkered, narrow, spoiled, irrelevant life to Brighton, and pretend he's educating the provincials.
Get out of Brighton.
Better still - GET IN THE SEA.
To think the pier should be made exclusive by adding a 'Michelin-starred' restaurant completely misses the point. Brighton has always been a magnet for high and low-brow visitors - the rich, and the spivs; the Establishment and the criminals. Most of the time, they will rub shoulders. A lot of the time, they are the same people.
If he wants Brighton to thrive, he's got to realise it caters for everyone, not just his ignorant, self-important form of the social elite. All he wants to do is to bring his own blinkered, narrow, spoiled, irrelevant life to Brighton, and pretend he's educating the provincials.
Get out of Brighton.
Better still - GET IN THE SEA.
The Albion Roar
97.2FM
Better still, how about - "Julian Caddy: I could have been silent..."
Have to agree with him about the Marina and Madeira Drive:
Quote Originally Posted by Julian Caddy
But for the endless stream of car rallies and charity events, Madeira Drive would be an utter wasteland.
Quote Originally Posted by Julian Caddy
Brighton Marina had the chance to become something the rest of Brighton seafront never was, but instead became a tacky, cynical, empty, commercial pastiche of what is already everywhere else. What a waste.
Quote Originally Posted by Julian Caddy
But for the endless stream of car rallies and charity events, Madeira Drive would be an utter wasteland.
Quote Originally Posted by Julian Caddy
Brighton Marina had the chance to become something the rest of Brighton seafront never was, but instead became a tacky, cynical, empty, commercial pastiche of what is already everywhere else. What a waste.