The Glassworks

Rotherham or Barnsley, postal address is Barnsley but there's a welcome to Rotherham sign at the entrance to Cortonwood, l think that's their council trying to claim it back..

 

Isn't Knoll Beck the boundry?

 

Cortonwood is definitely in Rotherham. The rates are paid to Rotherham council and any plans are submitted to Rotherham Council. The postal address is Barnsley and the postcode is S73 hence a lot of the confusion. Most of the retailers label their Cortonwood stores as ‘Barnsley’ or ‘Barnsley Cortonwood’. The main access road into the retail park is in Barnsley, however.

When Morrisons opened they incorrectly invited the mayor of Barnsley to cut the ribbon or something like that.

I know the former Wilko is being split into two smaller stores. Unsure if Hotel Chocolat will be one of those.

 

Are you talking about Wilkos in Barnsley I thought all the top floor was to be NHS

 

No - Cortonwood.

Most of the Alhambra is going to be NHS. BPL are also opening a gym in there. As far as I’m aware there won’t be any retail upstairs.

 

Any news on the boom bar unit? Seems a strange decision for for bpl to be opening a gym in the Alhambra instead of in the unit that they originally wanted a gym in.

 

I don’t know if it’ll be a commercial gym or whether it’ll be used for more physio/recovery type activity. It ties in with the health on the high street initiative. I believe BPL were approached about the unit above JD quite early on in the glassworks development and they weren’t interested.

 

https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/a...-notice-as-glassworks-unit-merger-is-approved

 

Some of this has already been discussed earlier in the thread.

Primark is supposedly moving into the former BHS (more recently occupied by Sports Direct, New Look and Superdrug).

The last I heard Superdrug were taking the Urban Burgers and Foot Health Practice units with those two being relocated elsewhere in The Glassworks. The plans might have changed, but I’m not sure the two merged units announced last week would be big enough for Superdrug, but perhaps it might be.

 

Superdrug are saying they will be moving to Urban Burger and foot place merged units by December. The former BHS store needs some work for Primark to relocate to.
Urban Burger were supposed to be having the unit between Salt House and Nandos

 

Wonder how many floors Primark plans to operate from, could see a multi-floor Primark working if I’m honest don’t think I’ve ever been in an empty Primark anywhere. The BHS building is in need of a revamp so this can only be good news at it’s currently I right eyesore. Wish Boots was flattened and redone as that building is also a monstrosity in my opinion

 

I’d assume they’ll utilise two floors and use the third for stock. Other than signage and a new entrance/windows, I can’t imagine much else will be done to the exterior of the building.

 

Not the Glassworks but can anyone remember the councils excuses for pulling Woodies Chippy building down? It was going to be the gateway into town and the first thing people would see when entering Barnsley from the interchange, now it's finished we've a bit of a garden and 3 trees planted - biggest let down since they spent £1m on Mandela Gardens, which they then left to rot.

 

Yes, it was a bloody eyesore and needed pulling down!

When it was a pub it was even worse with all kinds of strange odd balls frequenting it iirc?

Good riddance and there's a few more buildings in town that need to go the same way.

 

No offence GO, but that's the thinking of a profit at any cost philistine developer...smashing down a 150 year old building rather than restoring it to its original glory was an attitude of the 1960's where short term cast concrete became more important than stone built heritage.

 

Not concerned about the building, just the ***** open space we are left with - what's all that about.

Same with the Eldon street project, what they've done looks great, but they have left the biggest eye sore (clothing shop at the end) untouched. Apart from Parkway Cinema it still looks a **** hole coming out of the interchange