Why is Bond Street such a mess?

At least Bond St Tube is on the Jubilee line. Nice and easy to get to Southwark.

On Bond St Blackpool, it's just like the area, a total mess.

There should be house to house searches and compulsory repatriate anyone born east of a line from Warton to Lancaster.
 
HetzkeBlaster said:
Such a shame, shops like Melody House (where I bought my first single from), Woolworths, Polish Joes Shoes, Tesco and Bond St Fabrics are now all distant memories 😔. A sign of the times in most towns I’m afraid…
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I was just about to post something similar HB. I can remember finding a shoe I liked in Polish Joes, then trying to find the matching shoe in all the heaps of shoes lying around the shop, not the tidiest shop iirc? Melody House was a brilliant shop. I'm pleased that Taylors has survived, but I'm not sure how they've managed it.

Hope the plans Hazi mentioned happen ASAP.

It's not exactly breaking news that regeneration is urgently required. Same with Dickson Road and Central Drive. The areas where away fans arrive don't really sell the town very well.

I know Bond Street is very quiet nowadays, but it's not as quiet as in the video as a rule. The guy waited until the end before saying he was filming during lock down!!
 
I remember a car dealership just up from bond Street on Waterloo Road. My dad used to buy his cars from there.The bloke who taught me to drive worked from there. You had to drive down a narrow back alley to get on to bond Street.
 
Hazi said:
Plans afoot for the area in the master plan. China town has been mentioned
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I hope not Haz. Any city I’ve been in, China town is always scruffy and run down looking.

Only way they can renovate an entire area is compulsory purchase and start again. Don’t see how that would be even feasible as some people wouldn’t want to give up their livelyhoods
 
Chunkylad said:
I hope not Haz. Any city I’ve been in, China town is always scruffy and run down looking.

Only way they can renovate an entire area is compulsory purchase and start again. Don’t see how that would be even feasible as some people wouldn’t want to give up their livelyhoods
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Or knock it down and leave it knocked down? Introduce some green spaces, making the remaining existing property less abundant and therefore more susceptible to market forces. As things are, there's far too many dossy bedsits and standards could be driven up through the basic introduction of market forces - or is that too simple? Scruffs wouldn't choose to settle here if their rent was double in those areas.
 
rockontommy said:
Or knock it down and leave it knocked down? Introduce some green spaces, making the remaining existing property less abundant and therefore more susceptible to market forces. As things are, there's far too many dossy bedsits and standards could be driven up through the basic introduction of market forces - or is that too simple? Scruffs wouldn't choose to settle here if their rent was double in those areas.
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Like that , green space would be perfect 👍
 
Lala said:
Like that , green space would be perfect 👍
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rockontommy said:
Or knock it down and leave it knocked down? Introduce some green spaces, making the remaining existing property less abundant and therefore more susceptible to market forces. As things are, there's far too many dossy bedsits and standards could be driven up through the basic introduction of market forces - or is that too simple? Scruffs wouldn't choose to settle here if their rent was double in those areas.
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Scruffs, not heard that for a while, quite posh eh, better than layabouts, dossers and druggies.
 
Your from leafy Thornton, what do you know 🤣. Anyway, top memories of that area back in my day Melody House. Polish Joe's, and the two Waterloo Rd Markets, Pacemaker Sports and Easywear. Bookies and Joke Shop on Lytham Rd. Mario's barbers, I think that's about all that's left. Still, at least Carling is under £3 in the local hostelry, 🤣
 
rockontommy said:
Or knock it down and leave it knocked down? Introduce some green spaces, making the remaining existing property less abundant and therefore more susceptible to market forces. As things are, there's far too many dossy bedsits and standards could be driven up through the basic introduction of market forces - or is that too simple? Scruffs wouldn't choose to settle here if their rent was double in those areas.
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Yeah you can guarantee the council may knock it down but you will get holiday lodges , car parks and adrenaline rides . Just look what they going to do the Stanley park golf course. What mp's and councilors need to do is get more of the money the town attracts and put back into the town
 
It’s been going downhill for 40 years with successive parties in charge,me and the Mrs have been downtown today and it just gets worse,it’s like Iv landed on another planet ,when I was a kid late 60s loads of nice shops now nearly all gone .I wouldn’t know where to start with regenerating this shithole it would cost millions upon millions and that ain’t happening .
 
Be bop deluxe said:
Yeah you can guarantee the council may knock it down but you will get holiday lodges , car parks and adrenaline rides . Just look what they going to do the Stanley park golf course. What mp's and councilors need to do is get more of the money the town attracts and put back into the town
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This is the problem. Everything is low value with little thought to the overall impact. Look at that new hotel near the tower. I know it's right next to Coral Island but fuck me, it looks a state and obviously cost a bomb so who's signed that off?

Some safe and clean green spaces, near to a beach could be quite a sought after place to live. A mix of the already existing holiday accommodation with the introduction of minimal high end accommodation, and before you know it, you've got a bubble tea and shisha bar alongside the many many donut stands.

I had mates come down from Manchester during lockdowns. They never ever get bored of being by the coast. It can become quite tiresome having cans of beer on the prom but it reminds me of just how fortunate we are.
 
rockontommy said:
This is the problem. Everything is low value with little thought to the overall impact. Look at that new hotel near the tower. I know it's right next to Coral Island but fuck me, it looks a state and obviously cost a bomb so who's signed that off?

Some safe and clean green spaces, near to a beach could be quite a sought after place to live. A mix of the already existing holiday accommodation with the introduction of minimal high end accommodation, and before you know it, you've got a bubble tea and shisha bar alongside the many many donut stands.

I had mates come down from Manchester during lockdowns. They never ever get bored of being by the coast. It can become quite tiresome having cans of beer on the prom but it reminds me of just how fortunate we are.
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Quite right about the new hotel near the Tower. The Tower is the jewel in our Crown and deserves to be flanked by good architecture.
 
Blackpool needs a town centre that attracts people. At one time it was just behind Manchester and a lot closer to Liverpool for the town centre and shopping experience.

Once it has that, like lol as if that would happen, then the areas on the periphery will upgrade themselves.

It wants reinventing by archies with feeling not template blueprints. I have 2 such people in mind......
 
Rendezvous cinema on Bond Street, ended up being turned into a Mecca bingo. Used to be next to melody house.
The frontage is still there ( The Tube station )
 
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Bond Street / Waterloo Road / Lytham Road used to be a great area for shopping and chilling out in the 70s and 80s especially the Melody House and others that have been mentioned above, but now it’s a complete shit tip and a hive for drunks and junkies on a par with Central Drive area I'm sad to say.
 
rockontommy said:
This is the problem. Everything is low value with little thought to the overall impact. Look at that new hotel near the tower. I know it's right next to Coral Island but fuck me, it looks a state and obviously cost a bomb so who's signed that off?
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You don't want to know how many million the council is paying to rent space in that hotel for its museum. You could construct a purpose built museum for a fraction of the price and it would remain a council asset.
 
Wizaard said:
It's almost as if over a decade of Tory rule has seen a constant decline in investment in the North. Luckily the latest budget will surely readdress the imbalance and not put more money in the pockets of the richest areas of the country.
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I’m pretty sure the budget will do what the aim was & bring much needed investment from offshore accounts back into our tax system to regenerate Bond Street……
 
I can only remember Bond Street being a rough hole, apart from the car shop which had modified parts in, the wool shop that had been there forever and the butchers where my dad used to buy bacon ribs from
 
Years ago 1989 in fact worked in a Bank on Bond Street and great memories of running out of front door one Tuesday night and jumping in back of an Avesco Van handed a can of beer and setting off to Wrexham for a massive Sherpa Van match.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Quite right about the new hotel near the Tower. The Tower is the jewel in our Crown and deserves to be flanked by good architecture.
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Liverpool did the same with its waterfront development and it is real corner shop thinking. What will those building look like in 20 years? You should wait for the right one and maintain standards. The counterpoint to that duff hotel is the slow redevelopment of the fabulous Winter Gardens. We were back in town last weekend for a stayover. We spent a very happy hour or so walking round the sights there. the Empress Ballroom, where my mum met my dad at a dance when he was being demobbed from the RAF at Weeton after the war. The Opera House, whre we walked on to the stage where I saw the Jam years ago, and where so many other greats have played. Recommended, we're lucky to have it.
 
I remember the Woolies and the material shop It was also somewhere I first saw the false auction out of the back of a lorry, late 60's??
 
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