Union Terrace Gardens Vote

[glasgow sheep]

So, Labour have voted this out and are set upon binning the stadium too.

 

 

 

They got elected on a platform of ditching the UTG did they not?  I've no idea where the agenda against Calder Park is coming from.

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

Maybe so but won't it be interesting to find out if they actually have a viable alternative or just decided thier policy of binning from political expediency?

 

Either way, it's disappointing that Wood wouldn't accept any compromise and labour just wanted to kill it. You wonder of the council as a whole are prepared to have anything new built at all.

 

 

[Kowalski]

It wasn't the best of the proposals from the short list, but going against a public vote will haunt the council for a long time.

 

Very concerned about various projects being binned (UTG redevelopment, AFC stadium, 3rd Don crossing).

[BrownyBrown]

There is still time to bin AWPR too.

 

FFS, will the last cunt oot please switch off the lights.

 

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

Milne wasn't messing about.

 

Well known UTG sunbather Annie Lennox has been described as "delighted",

[dave_min]

[BrownyBrown]

Milne wasn't messing about.

 

Well known UTG sunbather Annie Lennox has been described as "delighted",

 

No doubt she is. The glaikit hoor probably couldn't even point to Aberdeen on a map (of Aberdeen).

 

What a monumental waste of time, effort, newsprint and thought this whole exercise has been.

 

[dave_min]

No doubt she is. The glaikit hoor probably couldn't even point to Aberdeen on a map (of Aberdeen).

 

The thing i've never understood about 'our' Annie is why the fuck is she famous?

 

As far as I can hear she can't sing and she isn't very easy on the eye?

[bloo_toon_red]

It should not have been a democratic process for the simple reason that the public was not given all the facts about the proposed regeneration projects as noted today and as mentioned by me in previous posts.  It was always set up to fail.  The council should've had the bottle from the outset to see this through from the outset.  Now the council has a big mess to clean up after going against the public vote.  This is blatant political ideology here as opposed to anything else.  The sad fact of the matter is that the council represents the inherently ultra-conservative "nae in my backie" Aberdonian mindset, and unless they plan to make a big protest about it, those who voted this shower in are as responsible as they are.

 

Tell you what, let's con roadsense into making them think that a big new oil pipeline pumping oil from an onshore station at Blackdog round to Banchory Devenick is needed with a 30m wide strip of hardcore and tarmac above it, enter some blurb about "subsea", "downhole tools" and fucking "trees" and then we'd maybe see some progress on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Tarmacadam Suspended Subsea-fed Oil Pipeline Project.  We'll ferry in all the road workers on choppers from Dyce, give them 3 weeks off out of every five.  We'd form a micro-economy out of it paying £30k+ giving jobs in accounts to eejits who couldn't count the cheeks on their own arse.  The AWPTSSfOPP would be completed by 2013 if we implemented this plan.  Absolutely definitely conclusively finished.

[CtS]

Regular UTG users celebrated in style tonight as news of their victory broke...

 

 

[bloo_toon_red]

Regular UTG users celebrated in style tonight as news of their victory broke...

 

 

 

 

They're not there Christian because they're all still in 1955.  But when the lightning strikes the tower of His Majesty's at the exact moment that Barney McFly's Delorean passes through the cable, they're all going to be very, very embarrassed.

[RDU_64]

Either way, it's disappointing that Wood wouldn't accept any compromise and labour just wanted to kill it. You wonder of the council as a whole are prepared to have anything new built at all.

 

Of course not! Don't be silly, this Aberdeen City Council! Want progress and help your residents? Aberdeen City Council will do everything possible to screw you up the rear. Fucking biggest shambles of a council I've ever seen.

[Kowalski]

Number of people who voted for the CGP: 42K

Number of people voting for Labour at the last Council elections: 16K

 

 

[Superstar Tradesman]

Heard a soundbite of some councillor yesterday saying he was over the moon about the decision and now they could concentrate on pushing Aberdeen forward as the European city of culture (or some such shit) for 2017.

 

Great.  What they planning on showing the judges?

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

50's culture?

[BrownyBrown]

Cultured yoghurt.

[Dandy_Don]

Heard a soundbite of some councillor yesterday saying he was over the moon about the decision and now they could concentrate on pushing Aberdeen forward as the European city of culture (or some such shit) for 2017.

 

Great.  What they planning on showing the judges?

 

World's largest collection of Jakey's at UTG?

[Kowalski]

There's a fairly lively debate on Facebook if anyone is interested:

http://www.facebook.com/BarneyCrockettIsADisgraceToDemocracy

 

[tom_widdows]

Imagine what would have happened if Wood hadnt decided to gatecrash the Peacocks arts centre plans

 

 

 

Something might actually be getting done to the Gardens right now and the current Aberdeen council might never have been voted in

 

[BrownyBrown]

There's a fairly lively debate on Facebook if anyone is interested:

http://www.facebook.com/BarneyCrockettIsADisgraceToDemocracy

 

 

Some very embarrassing comments on there by elected Councillors no less.

 

 

[Kowalski]

Some very embarrassing comments on there by elected Councillors no less.

 

 

 

Councillor Young is the guy who got booted out of Cove Rangers, and helped kill off the Calder Park plans.

He can't even spell "democratic" by the looks of things.  He is arguing with folk on Facebook - honestly, who votes for these clowns!?

[Tyrant]

Regular UTG users celebrated in style tonight as news of their victory broke...

 

 

 

 

Very few people visit parks in wet weather. So we best bulldoze them all. 

[Superstar Tradesman]

 

Very few people visit parks in wet weather. So we best bulldoze them all. 

 

I've only ever seen pics of the gardens taken through rose-tinted specs obviously taken by the UTG lovers.  Anyone care to take their lives into their own hands and post the reality of the gardens sometime?

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

 

Very few people visit parks in wet weather. So we best bulldoze them all. 

 

Is it not the part of the point of redeveloping the park by whichever of the proposals that it could be used all the time though? That is was worth going to at all in fact?

[Tyrant]

I've only ever seen pics of the gardens taken through rose-tinted specs obviously taken by the UTG lovers.  Anyone care to take their lives into their own hands and post the reality of the gardens sometime?

 

 

Westburn Park:

 

Nice weather: Park busy.

Poor weather: Park quiet.

Middle of the night: Park has jakeys.

 

UTG:

 

Nice weather: Park busy.

Poor weather: Park quiet.

Middle of the night: Park has jakeys.

 

 

Better build something on Westburn Park too!

 

Is it not the part of the point of redeveloping the park by whichever of the proposals that it could be used all the time though? That is was worth going to at all in fact?

 

 

Perhaps it was, TF. But £140m (and the rest) seems an affa lot of money just so it could be used at all times.