Accy from the Bypass

KIPAX · 01-07-2006, 22:57

From the dual carriageway nr Huncoat dinner time/ish today

Doug · 01-07-2006, 23:06

Looks a nice place to live..........

garinda · 01-07-2006, 23:11

Smashing photograph.

Was just about to comment on the monstosity that is Express Gifts/Joseph Arnold's being a blot on the landscape...but realised you can't see it.

KIPAX · 02-07-2006, 00:05

ohhhh yes you can

Madhatter · 02-07-2006, 02:05

how the hell that got planning permission .look at it, it'l like two monopoly hotels. I can truely and honestly say that I don't know of any building that is as bigger blot on the landscape as the express gifts building.
Arndale is esy to spot.
That farm makes an interesting piccy kipax, Is that part of an estate, looks like the stable block to some grand house with the central turret and castellation. Even got the horse in there. Shame about the power lines, but power lines or cars seem to want to be in every photo I take these days.

Gayle · 02-07-2006, 07:46

It is a blot on the landscape and you would have thought they should have made more effort to make it more attractive (or even paint it green) but at the end of the day it's a huge employer for the town and we'd be lost without it. Also, they have made efforts to camoflage it if you are on the ground with all the trees around it.

garinda · 02-07-2006, 08:40

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Originally Posted by Gayle

It is a blot on the landscape and you would have thought they should have made more effort to make it more attractive (or even paint it green) but at the end of the day it's a huge employer for the town and we'd be lost without it. Also, they have made efforts to camoflage it if you are on the ground with all the trees around it.

Other towns in the country have places of mass employment that aren't such an eye-sore. We had more attractive factories a hundred years ago. Which ever people passed the planning for it should hang their heads in shame.

It's not as if we are short of brown field industrial sites in the area, where they could have had the same work space without it being such a horrible carbuncle.

Gayle · 02-07-2006, 09:04

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Originally Posted by garinda

Other towns in the country have places of mass employment that aren't such an eye-sore. We had more attractive factories a hundred years ago. Which ever people passed the planning for it should hang their heads in shame.

It's not as if we are short of brown field industrial sites in the area, where they could have had the same work space without it being such a horrible carbuncle.

Not arguing with you because I totally agree - I blame the people who granted planning permission to it all those years ago. They shouldn't have been swayed by the cherchink of employment figures but should have insisted that it was done sympathetically.

katex · 02-07-2006, 09:22

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Not arguing with you because I totally agree - I blame the people who granted planning permission to it all those years ago. They shouldn't have been swayed by the cherchink of employment figures but should have insisted that it was done sympathetically.

Worked for an estate agent for a while Gayle, and they sent me to a small development to sell bungalows. They were quite lovely with elevated views.
Little did I know that within 12 months this Warehouse would be built plonk in front of them.

Was accosted by one of the buyers later and accused of 'selling under false pretences', I was just used.:e9: Think about this every day when I pass.

Still, I suppose the buyers didn't do their homework either, sure there must have been planning applications in at the same time.

P.S. Love that word 'cherchink' ... not in dictionary though, this a new political word ?

KIPAX · 02-07-2006, 10:25

There crying out for a mural

katex · 02-07-2006, 10:37

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Originally Posted by KIPAX

There crying out for a mural

Oh No, no, no ...hate that one on the side of the Church at Church traffic lights, out of place .. would definitely enter that for Blot on the Landscape comp. just getting me hands on a digital.

Can you imagine the controversy of what to put on it

KIPAX · 02-07-2006, 10:45

I would have a desert scene complete with palm trees and a water hole type thing..... but that would probably cause crashes on the pypass as drivers try to fugure it out

katex · 02-07-2006, 10:48

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Originally Posted by KIPAX

I would have a desert scene complete with palm trees and a water hole type thing..... but that would probably cause crashes on the pypass as drivers try to fugure it out

Thought you would have gone in more for a football action painting.

Aren't there ways of superimposing an image onto your photo to give us an idea ?

Neil · 02-07-2006, 12:57

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Originally Posted by garinda

Other towns in the country have places of mass employment that aren't such an eye-sore.

It's all down to money. The building we have is cheap. If the planning people had insisted they built an old syle mill building out of brick and slate the company would have gone elsewhere and like Gayle said, we need the employment in our area.

garinda · 02-07-2006, 22:51

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Originally Posted by Neil

It's all down to money. The building we have is cheap. If the planning people had insisted they built an old syle mill building out of brick and slate the company would have gone elsewhere and like Gayle said, we need the employment in our area.

I'm not suggesting a monumental Italianate Victorian style building, just one that is in proportion to it's location.

Walkers Steel (or whatever it's called now) is a massive place, but because it is low rise isn't so hideously dominant in that area.