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MORE SECRECY OVER SWINTON TRANSFORMATION MASTERPLAN
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Star date: 19th June 2019 WHAT IS IT? WHY IS IT SO SECRET? "The publication of this report at this stage may cause financial concern and uncertainty in the locality" Salford Council Salford City Council is possibly about to throw more money at its Swinton Transformation Masterplan – having already handed Urban Vision £200,000 to work on the scheme two years ago. But what is the Swinton Transformation Masterplan? All documents related to it are secret and not in the public domain, including next week's procurement report. Full details here...
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For over two years, the Salford Star has been trying to get details on the hush-hush Swinton Transformation Plan being hatched by Salford City Council. Presumably it's about 'transforming' Swinton town centre, with the only clues revealed in February 2017, when proposals were aired to bulldoze Swinton and Pendlebury Leisure Centre and relocate it to a new £11.9million facility by 2022/23. The report stated that the new facility would be part of a "remodelled Civic Campus", ie the land on which the Civic Centre stands (see here). In April 2017, the Council threw £200,000 at its joint venture Urban Vision company for four months work to create the Swinton Transformation Plan, and the only information on this report was that the Plan would be "informed by technical surveys and a business case to demonstrate delivery" (see here).. Since then there's been complete silence. Next week, Salford Council's Procurement Board (made up of senior councillors Merry, Boshell, Hinds and City Mayor Paul Dennett) meets behind closed doors to apparently consider throwing more funds at the scheme, under the title of the Swinton Transformation Plan – Local Partnerships. All details are again being kept secret from local residents; a Public Interest Test Checklist deciding that disclosure won't "help people to understand and participate in
public debate about current issues"; won't "allow individuals and companies to understand decisions made by the Council that have affected their lives"...but "will damage the Council's interests"... "The publication of this report at this stage may cause financial concern and uncertainty in the locality" the checklist concludes "This report provides details in regards to potentially commercially sensitive information which form part of a larger long-term project." Expect the Swinton Transformation Masterplan to be revealed in Cannes or somewhere in the not-too-distant future...
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Rossi wrote
at 16:26:29 on 20 June 2019 |
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| I was born in the wrong time, Ray. But for that unfortunate happenstance I could have been another Simon Bolivar. But tell me Ray, what have you achieved? Methinks it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Let's face it, neither of us are Wrote, early pioneers of the Fifty Pence shop, but now pillars of the community, a wealthy benefactor, who employs twenty workers, a latter-day Jean Val Jean. Face it Ray, I'm Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, and you're Samuel L Jackson in that same film. I'm full of righteous justice, and you're a wicked villain. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:42:56 on 20 June 2019 |
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| Rossi says,"What we need is people of substance..",ergo people not like Rossi! |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:42:46 on 20 June 2019 |
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| Joe O'Neil,apart from right wing bile,what have you got to offer Swinton? You had your hour of glory on the council and it turned to dust in your hands! Joe,you are yesterday's man peddling yesterday's policies! |
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at 05:48:46 on 20 June 2019 |
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| Rossi as you have been told by many many people on here, be quiet, no one wants to listen to your constant moaning. What do you do in your community that gives you the right to moan about others? Just be quiet ok, shush now. |
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John wrote
at 05:48:27 on 20 June 2019 |
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| Swinton is going down fast, But PC don’t like truths |
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Stevan pugh wrote
at 05:47:02 on 20 June 2019 |
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| Would that explain why I'm living in mold. And Water in my flat city west/forhousing. Me and my sons have had no end of chest infections wheezing the lot. It's a disgrace. I'm not far from this place. But it's beyond a joke Now. Have really bad mental health issues it's beyond a joke. |
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Jimmy the kid wrote
at 19:21:37 on 19 June 2019 |
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| People of Salford," we're losing sleep over the secrets that you keep'.
Salford council, ' Same as it ever was '
Buff said ! |
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joseph O'Neill wrote
at 19:21:20 on 19 June 2019 |
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| I am sure before next years Mayoral Elections it will come out in all it's glory on Labour leaflets minus the cost and interest payments. |
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Rossi wrote
at 19:21:08 on 19 June 2019 |
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| Listen, we all know that whatever the council do - they make a balls up of it. These clowns couldn't organise a bric-a-brac stall at Bowlers on a Summer Sunday in July. This being the case, we all know that whatever these bozos invest money in, that that money will be squandered. The Clowncil ... They're nothing but a bunch of bozos, latter-day clowns. We need people of substance governing our lives and spending our money. Not these inept and clueless Muppets. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 19:20:55 on 19 June 2019 |
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| WHAT!!!!! KNOCK DOWN LANCASTRIAN HALL!!!!! This building should be grade one listed as a perfect and fitting tribute to the tossers that built it, the ones on the opposite side of the road. Of course I can understand why they are being so secret about it all.This is so the people who are being displaced moved on etc will get sweet FA, and the people who need to make money get lots of it.Thats what they always do. It's obvious init? |
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Lisa Nelson wrote
at 13:28:19 on 19 June 2019 |
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| I have lived in Swinton all my life and was always proud to tell people where I lived. However over the years Swinton has become a dump and needs something doing to it. The Lancastrian Hall is an eyesore and needs pulling down. The precinct is depressing with no decent shops. So whatever the plans are, I hope they are investing in bringing Swinton back to being a place to be proud of. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 13:28:03 on 19 June 2019 |
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| Understandable that it's hidden. It's a negotiation with suppliers and construction companies. You can't start telling everyone all the details or they'll be ripped off.
Anyway it's obvious it'll revolve around shifting puccinis so they can knock down the lancastrian hall monstrosity. |
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Barbara clark wrote
at 09:46:38 on 19 June 2019 |
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| There should be no secrets,this is our money they are spending and we should be the first to know what's going on,it's a disgrace. |
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