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dillon · 15-03-2005, 15:16

Ahh, Panopticons. The very idea gets people as emotional as anything else I have ever seen discussed on these pages. And I think that's the whole point. When was the last time anybody bothered to comment on how nice the Coppice was, or how lovely a spot Keple End in the Ribble Valley is? (The Valley's site for a Panopticon)

Yes, of course a shopping centre with a nice Next would be lovely. But what would it really achieve? A few extra hundred people heading into the area per week? Possibly not even that, from what I've heard.

The Panopticons however seem to offer the potential for something else. A way for the area to be put on a tourist map. Anyone heard of the Great Days Out? Gets people on coaches into Accy, stopping at Ossy Mills etc. My gran has been on several of these trips and loved em. Said she wouldn't have bothered with Accy otherwise. Imagine now if Accy were on a route for a Panopticon tour? Same thing.

And by the way, the architect designing the things? He won't be building them single-handedly!!! I think the only spin he would put on it is defending his design, which any artist would do, until it is built by whatever European funding is finally thrown our way!

15-03-2005, 15:16	#28
dillon Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 45 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Panopticons Ahh, Panopticons. The very idea gets people as emotional as anything else I have ever seen discussed on these pages. And I think that's the whole point. When was the last time anybody bothered to comment on how nice the Coppice was, or how lovely a spot Keple End in the Ribble Valley is? (The Valley's site for a Panopticon) Yes, of course a shopping centre with a nice Next would be lovely. But what would it really achieve? A few extra hundred people heading into the area per week? Possibly not even that, from what I've heard. The Panopticons however seem to offer the potential for something else. A way for the area to be put on a tourist map. Anyone heard of the Great Days Out? Gets people on coaches into Accy, stopping at Ossy Mills etc. My gran has been on several of these trips and loved em. Said she wouldn't have bothered with Accy otherwise. Imagine now if Accy were on a route for a Panopticon tour? Same thing. And by the way, the architect designing the things? He won't be building them single-handedly!!! I think the only spin he would put on it is defending his design, which any artist would do, until it is built by whatever European funding is finally thrown our way!