Another new development

[Sanddancer]

I look forward to seeing the new watersports 'ub.

[mk1]

I look forward to seeing the new watersports 'ub.

Where do I matriculate for the micturate  lessons?
I think they are taking the lant.

[kevplumb]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/ambitious-hartlepool-waterfront-plans-would-create-hundreds-of-jobs-1-8815641

tourism is worth £142,000000 a year 

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/ambitious-hartlepool-waterfront-plans-would-create-hundreds-of-jobs-1-8815641

tourism is worth £142,000000 a year 

More like artist's impressions cost £142,000,000 a year,
and that is just the hallucinagenics part of the bill.

[Inspector Knacker]

It was on the BBC north east news this morning, like Church was last week, so it sounds like they're shouting it from the rooftops.
The report also stated they'd received £3/4 million to pay for the planning from Tees Valley so does this mean that if the planning hasn't even started it's just a another 'vision'?
Promises, promises.

[steveL]

A series of Press Releases issued during the Seaton and Victoria By-elections specifically prohibited under purdah guidelines. There's nothing here that couldn't have been delayed until after the by-elections.

As we saw from the Seaton by-election, both Labour and the council's PR and Neighbourhood Services Departments have no respect for the rules and guidelines which surround elections; another characteristic of a totally dysfunctional council long passed the time that it should be investigated by the Communities and Local Government Ministry.

[fred c]

Recycled Olympic Porta Cabins will be used.....Multi Million pound development....... same ol same ol b****x we have been getting for years...........it's getting boring now

[kevplumb]

don't forget the jobs fred !

minimum wage part time zero hours 

makes me wonder why they ain't using a local architect as well
unless the local lads have got wise and backheeled it
or they have an aversion to brown envolopes 

[testing times]

so the thousands spent on the original artist's impressions have been dumped in favour of another load of artists impressions also costing thousands.

And where DO they get that £145m on tourism from? I bet it includes every contractor staying in a hotel or B&B and every pint, fish&chips, takeaway or Greggs Pastie bought in the town.

[kevplumb]

so the thousands spent on the original artist's impressions have been dumped in favour of another load of artists impressions also costing thousands.

And where DO they get that £145m on tourism from? I bet it includes every contractor staying in a hotel or B&B and every pint, fish&chips, takeaway or Greggs Pastie bought in the town.

Apparently venice had a record year for tourism  they made   £20 m

puts it in perspective 

[jeffh]

so the thousands spent on the original artist's impressions have been dumped in favour of another load of artists impressions also costing thousands.

And where DO they get that £145m on tourism from? I bet it includes every contractor staying in a hotel or B&B and every pint, fish&chips, takeaway or Greggs Pastie bought in the town.

Apparently venice had a record year for tourism  they made   £20 m

puts it in perspective 

I seem to remember when our Culture Secretary was asked about this £145m earlier this year he filibustered until the then Mayor called time and got him off the hook

[mk1]

A 'tourist' includes anyone who travels into Hartlepool for any reason. Even residents who cross from one part of the town to another can be counted.  Everyone who shops at ASDA is a 'Mariana tourist'.  Anytime they mention 'a significant increase in visitor spend across the Tees Valley' then you know the net has been cast far and wide in order to hide the real number of real tourists who visit Hartlepool.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

At the Seaton parking charge consultation Mad Dog was asked how they came up with visitor numbers.

Her answer was that they have a special computer program that works it out.

(No measurement is carried out)

[fred c]

I still have the Tall Ships details.......... Apparently......... 10,000.......... yep......... 10,000 people visited the event, On Bicycles.......

[mk1]

During the Tall Ships debacle it was revealed that nearly every resident of Hartlepool and the surrounding area was assumed to have visited the event every day and was counted as a separate 'tourist' on all 3 days. That gave a base of some 300,000+ visitors which even if no real tourists  came would be the lowest possible  visitor count. Every 'Tourist' was assumed to have spent c £140 for each visit.
I have a news video saved somewhere of The Mayor telling the interviewer of the total  of expected visitors and that  forecast ended up as the official visitor total-they already had the numbers  worked out before they held the event!