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Now that's tree-mendous
IS this what Bournemouth Gardens could look like in the future? This artist's impression shows what the gardens would look like with a treetop platform or walkway - an idea suggested in the town centre master vision.
Either landmark would bring improved wheelchair and pushchair access from Westover Road into the gardens and would offer stunning sea and garden views.
Town centre councillor Bob Chapman said: "We recognise Bournemouth's award-winning gardens are one of its best assets and the vision is keen to protect and enhance them."
The vision also advocates more concerts, festivals, exhibitions, theatre and outdoor cinema in Bourne-mouth to boost the town's profile.
Residents are being asked to feedback their views on these ideas and others to the council.
A DVD explaining the vision is available to download from the council's website and more details are available online at www.bournemouth.gov.uk/towncentrevision. Limited copies of the consultation document are available at the Daily Echo's reception at Richmond Hill or by calling 01202 458229.
7:41pm Thursday 7th August 2008
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CommentPosted by: HAL101, Bournemouth on 8:12pm Thu 7 Aug 08
A walkway across the Bourne vally through the tree tops would be great! I remember Rupert Bear use to walk the tree tops.
I'd walk it.
A walkway across the Bourne vally through the tree tops would be great! I remember Rupert Bear use to walk the tree tops.
I'd walk it.
Posted by: buzz lightyear on 9:12pm Thu 7 Aug 08
the main thing is to make it no cycling.
the main thing is to make it no cycling.
Posted by: Christopher, Wallisdown & Winton West on 9:56pm Thu 7 Aug 08
Having read the Vision for Bournemouth, I am well pleased at what is being put into this project. I have entered my Tell Us What You Think paper.
I am surprise at how long some of this is going to take, when really it is needed now. The emphasis has got to be getting Bournemouth back to what it was and should be.
Having read the Vision for Bournemouth, I am well pleased at what is being put into this project. I have entered my Tell Us What You Think paper.
I am surprise at how long some of this is going to take, when really it is needed now. The emphasis has got to be getting Bournemouth back to what it was and should be.
Posted by: V Masterman on 11:33pm Thu 7 Aug 08
Nothing new under the Sun what happenend to the one in Boscombe Gardens. More money down the drain !! There was one there!!!
Nothing new under the Sun what happenend to the one in Boscombe Gardens. More money down the drain !! There was one there!!!
Posted by: 2Much, New Forest on 8:19am Fri 8 Aug 08
So..if everything goes to plan..the flyover will be gone causing major traffic chaos..they're keeping the imax...hmmm great..they want to build a new pavilion with shiny white bricks whilst losing more valuable parking, and from this picture, they want the gardens to look like a savoy cabbage that's gone limp in a greengrocers..i wonder how much all this will cost?
So..if everything goes to plan..the flyover will be gone causing major traffic chaos..they're keeping the imax...hmmm great..they want to build a new pavilion with shiny white bricks whilst losing more valuable parking, and from this picture, they want the gardens to look like a savoy cabbage that's gone limp in a greengrocers..i wonder how much all this will cost?
Posted by: Mike Pickering, Bournemouth on 4:39pm Fri 8 Aug 08
Oh please please stop coming up with 'new schemes' for the town center.
It's done.
There will never be a grand new scheme to redevelop Bournemouth, it will gradually decline until it looks like Holdenhurst road all the way from the train station to the triangle. Low quality shops and dangerous pubs full of 40 year old men wearing sports gear, punctuated by lap-dancing clubs and take-aways. The people who could make a difference to this town have grown up, watched it's gross mismanagement year-in and year-out, and moved out of the area or lost faith totally.
Ironically, Mr Carr is one of these people and so am I, after trying to establish a business in the town, and spending many years battling uphill against a confused and blinkered authority; people with vision and more importantly cash have no desire to sink it into the town.
Forget it - it's too late. Go into town while there's still Marks and Spencers, but in 20 years it will be a ghost town.
Again.
Oh please please stop coming up with 'new schemes' for the town center.
It's done.
There will never be a grand new scheme to redevelop Bournemouth, it will gradually decline until it looks like Holdenhurst road all the way from the train station to the triangle. Low quality shops and dangerous pubs full of 40 year old men wearing sports gear, punctuated by lap-dancing clubs and take-aways. The people who could make a difference to this town have grown up, watched it's gross mismanagement year-in and year-out, and moved out of the area or lost faith totally.
Ironically, Mr Carr is one of these people and so am I, after trying to establish a business in the town, and spending many years battling uphill against a confused and blinkered authority; people with vision and more importantly cash have no desire to sink it into the town.
Forget it - it's too late. Go into town while there's still Marks and Spencers, but in 20 years it will be a ghost town.
Again.
Posted by: PETE WOODLEY on 5:33pm Fri 8 Aug 08
[quote][bold]Mike Pickering[/bold] wrote:
Oh please please stop coming up with 'new schemes' for the town center.
It's done.
There will never be a grand new scheme to redevelop Bournemouth, it will gradually decline until it looks like Holdenhurst road all the way from the train station to the triangle. Low quality shops and dangerous pubs full of 40 year old men wearing sports gear, punctuated by lap-dancing clubs and take-aways. The people who could make a difference to this town have grown up, watched it's gross mismanagement year-in and year-out, and moved out of the area or lost faith totally.
Ironically, Mr Carr is one of these people and so am I, after trying to establish a business in the town, and spending many years battling uphill against a confused and blinkered authority; people with vision and more importantly cash have no desire to sink it into the town.
Forget it - it's too late. Go into town while there's still Marks and Spencers, but in 20 years it will be a ghost town.
Again.[/quote] Hate to say so, but you are probably right,cant just blame council,its general attitudes to progress and the future,a bit of jealousy,less money about, and too much politics involved instead of all parties getting together,years ago the businessmen who kept the town going,were real local men,where are they now,like the haywards kept football going,people like them and the Beales cared about the residents and the town. A event like the carnival and the regatta brought thousands into town,Those were the days.
Mike Pickering wrote:
Oh please please stop coming up with 'new schemes' for the town center.
It's done.
There will never be a grand new scheme to redevelop Bournemouth, it will gradually decline until it looks like Holdenhurst road all the way from the train station to the triangle. Low quality shops and dangerous pubs full of 40 year old men wearing sports gear, punctuated by lap-dancing clubs and take-aways. The people who could make a difference to this town have grown up, watched it's gross mismanagement year-in and year-out, and moved out of the area or lost faith totally.
Ironically, Mr Carr is one of these people and so am I, after trying to establish a business in the town, and spending many years battling uphill against a confused and blinkered authority; people with vision and more importantly cash have no desire to sink it into the town.
Forget it - it's too late. Go into town while there's still Marks and Spencers, but in 20 years it will be a ghost town.
Again.
Hate to say so, but you are probably right,cant just blame council,its general attitudes to progress and the future,a bit of jealousy,less money about, and too much politics involved instead of all parties getting together,years ago the businessmen who kept the town going,were real local men,where are they now,like the haywards kept football going,people like them and the Beales cared about the residents and the town. A event like the carnival and the regatta brought thousands into town,Those were the days.
Posted by: beachhut, southbourne on 6:41pm Fri 8 Aug 08
SOME VERY STARNGE PEOPLE ABOUT. ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN THE CURRENT SET UP, AND THE CHUMP WHO WANTS TO GET RID OF BICYCLES WELL WORDS FAIL ME. WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING THE USE OF BIKES AS WELL AS A CYCLE PATH ALONG THE PROM.
SOME VERY STARNGE PEOPLE ABOUT. ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN THE CURRENT SET UP, AND THE CHUMP WHO WANTS TO GET RID OF BICYCLES WELL WORDS FAIL ME. WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING THE USE OF BIKES AS WELL AS A CYCLE PATH ALONG THE PROM.
Posted by: Mike Pickering, Bournemouth on 3:47am Sat 9 Aug 08
I do agree with your comments, Pete - it is a reflection that people in general do not value their local environment as much as they once did, because ironically - culturally the world is a smaller place..
Of course it wasn't all good in the past, from 1st hand accounts, Bournemouth used to be just shops and a couple of pubs, and grotty. Even looking through old photos of the town in the 1960s and 70s, apart from the beach and endless low-quality hotels and guesthouses, you would never guess the town was a resort.
We'll all have our fantasies of when the town was best, and conveniently ignore or forget what was not good - pier approach with the traffic at pedestrian level, the old baths building, traffic all down the square and up old christchurch road; made the town a tricky and dangerous place to walk around in, and although it's awkward with no central bus depot, the one that I recall was burned down in 1976 was a filthy uninspiring, utilitarian place that is better off gone.
And so we are plagued with an idea of conservatism that tries to hang on to a vision of Bournemouth that never really existed, or if it did the recollection of it is not entirely accurate, with that trend occasionally and deseperately bucked by temporary monstrosities such as the imax and lap-dancing clubs nestled in between a thousand useless and samey pubs. All short-term attempts to extract revenue from faddish trading patterns.
Whilst there remains this inability of the people to elect those with the vision to try something that can be envisioned to add long-term appeal to the town and gradually change the boom and bust trade that we currently endure, then this endless spiral of decline will continue.
I do agree with your comments, Pete - it is a reflection that people in general do not value their local environment as much as they once did, because ironically - culturally the world is a smaller place..
Of course it wasn't all good in the past, from 1st hand accounts, Bournemouth used to be just shops and a couple of pubs, and grotty. Even looking through old photos of the town in the 1960s and 70s, apart from the beach and endless low-quality hotels and guesthouses, you would never guess the town was a resort.
We'll all have our fantasies of when the town was best, and conveniently ignore or forget what was not good - pier approach with the traffic at pedestrian level, the old baths building, traffic all down the square and up old christchurch road; made the town a tricky and dangerous place to walk around in, and although it's awkward with no central bus depot, the one that I recall was burned down in 1976 was a filthy uninspiring, utilitarian place that is better off gone.
And so we are plagued with an idea of conservatism that tries to hang on to a vision of Bournemouth that never really existed, or if it did the recollection of it is not entirely accurate, with that trend occasionally and deseperately bucked by temporary monstrosities such as the imax and lap-dancing clubs nestled in between a thousand useless and samey pubs. All short-term attempts to extract revenue from faddish trading patterns.
Whilst there remains this inability of the people to elect those with the vision to try something that can be envisioned to add long-term appeal to the town and gradually change the boom and bust trade that we currently endure, then this endless spiral of decline will continue.
Posted by: Munkstar, Bournemouth on 3:41pm Mon 11 Aug 08
'make it no cycling'!!!!!!!! I use the rout to commute as opposed to using the car, ill informed comments like yours require ^%$%^$*%^$ shooting.
'make it no cycling'!!!!!!!! I use the rout to commute as opposed to using the car, ill informed comments like yours require ^%$%^$*%^$ shooting.
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