Odsal Redevelopment, Council Finances, Council Services & The Private Sector

Levelling up has quietly been ditched as Gov policy I was reading two days ago. Tory MP ‘s are banned from using it, bit like the Brexit word?

 

As a big rugby league fan i've had some great times at Odsal. But i'm realistic to understand those times will never come back. The only justification to have a stadium at Odsal would be a shared ownership and in reality none of the sports involved puts enough on the table to warrant a new development. Without Bradford being guaranteed super league there is no long term tenant to pay the bills. As Rod alludes to, fill the bloody thing in and have done with it. Odsal to me mirrors the city of Bradford, dying on its arse and run into the ground by idiots. And as such we should stop wasting tax payers on pie in the sky pipedreams. Same with the stupid City of culture bollocks, stop giving these people an excuse to waste your money.

 

Nope, unless plenty is spent on the pitch to cater for both codes. Oh and their rent is £500,000 a months .. Providing we can sub let?

 

Touché. Spot on , every single word.

 

The shame is , its the same idiots that are returned to office year after year, with the same stupid ideas.
Unfortunately, nothing will change with these guys in charge and turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
Odsal has been a complete shit hole for most of its existence. I went for one of the summer music bashes last year. WOW
Thank god the tickets were complimentaries. You would have to pay me well to attend otherwise.

 

You know what… a lot of these transport “ projects” are replacements for Beeching’s decimation of the railways in the 60’s on behalf of the road lobby. Many said it was short sighted and there you go!

 

Odsal redeveloped for we hat the Bulls fans who fooked off on mass when it went tits up fooking move in with Avenue and kill this talk off one and for all

 

Good. It was and always has been pie in the Sky. Lets get on and fill it in and release the millions that landfill will generate for better use. As for City of Culture, it's like the Royal family. It may cost money to put on (most of which will be private sector rather than council anyway) but the rewards far outweigh the cost.

The Royal family costs £86million. Small change compared to the number of overseas visitors having a Royal family attracts to the UK.

 

Have you seen the state of this statement from the Bulls.

Basically we are disappointed we didn't get this handout so we are looking towards the council for information about any potential future handouts.

No shame.

 

This is pretty pathetic stuff. They should have been called the Bradford Oliver’s…always got the begging bowl out.

Once they tried to compete with the heavily backed clubs , Northern were wholly reliant on borrowed money or tax payer hand outs it was doomed to failure.

 

Basically the golden hen has stopped shitting golden eggs. So we are looking for another golden hen.

 

Absolute freeloaders. Sell it. Fill it in. Give the money to the poor and make these jokers move to Horsfall. To a ground that befits their status

 

What's even more laughable is that Richard Dunn's has been made a listed building, as I drove past the other day it has trees growing near the structure, with money being as tight as it is I'm sure Bradford Council could find better ways of spending our council taxes which idiots made it a listed building, back in the day it was certainly a futuristic building not sure that will apply in 5 years time, just another derelict un-care for building.

As you say make it land fill to bring some revenue in.

 

The council didn't want it listing. In fact they've objected to it. Think it was English Heritage who got it listed.

 

Yes I agree I was just pointing out that Bradford Council would be responsible for its upkeep or am I wrong ?.

 

And Tory voting areas

 

It can be no surprise that the council wanted to waste 50 million on Odsall. The laste time they were given 30 Million they spent it on a City centre pool that is mainley under repair or used by druggies