New sixth form college

My wife's just been having a browse on some chronicle Facebook page regarding the new sixth form college to be built and the negative people that live in our town is untrue.

Surely replacing a dozen derelict buildings and an old ugly looking library with a new modern building is good for the town. Let's try and build on our college/university hub and give the next generation the best chance possible to make something of themselves.

Hopefully with the added number of students it will fetch more people to spending in the towns local shops and eateries!! It pains me when people can only find negative views on the shape of Barnsley, a bet residents from neighboring towns and cities don't react like this!!!

 

No because barnsleys rubbish. but we can't spend on new things. They should spending money on jobs. Bloody foreigners.. Why are they putting works of art up around the town?? Nobody wants to spend the day looking round barnsley! Its rubbish! The grass is too long! My pop's too fizzy! Why do my chips smell like piss???

 

So you think it's a good idea aswell then??

 

You need to have shops for folk to spend their coin in first.

 

It'll be better than what's there. They're relocating the library to that building opposite Wilkos aren't they anyway?

 

It's up and running as we speak I believe!

 

Your right in some respects but we crave new shops and a new challenge to the town, people have the money to spend but they need shops other than poundlands and charity shops...a facelift from top to bottom is required for Barnsley!!

 

Well then what are they complaining about lol

 

Folk who'd rather moan and groan than see out good happen in Barnsley!

 

When was last time you went shopping in town other than frank birds which appears to be dying a slow death...

 

I'll occasionally pop in for a walk round town but if there was more to look at Id probably go in more often, the point I'm making is that if we do pull in more student types would hopefully see a new customer base. The fact of the matter is we have to do something as we are getting further and further behind all our neighbouring towns and cities.

 

I haven't read the comments but the Library was well liked by a lot of people. I don't see why the library could not have been incorporated into the design of the new sixth form.

 

nice to see you keep up to date with stuff on here and whats happening in YOUR town...


NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I don't think the library is ugly. It's one of the few buildings from that era that can still hold its own. Inside, it's superb. Purpose built, extremely functional, not showing any signs of disrepair. Our library was something to be proud of. Knocking down a building that serves a very important purpose, that still looks as good and works as well as the day it was built seems ridiculous to me. I don't know what is negative about recognising that.

 

I agree but whilst the Library is great, the rest of it is awful.

It seems like the least worst option for redeveloping that part of Town.

 

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater though. Lots of the town needs redeveloping. One of the few things that didn't was the library.

 

Absolutely, but IMHO that part is the worst. Empty buildings, old & almost derelict and when you factor in it's the main road in to Town centre something had to be done. I'd have liked 'em to keep the library but if getting rid of it means a lot of investment to make the overall area better then surely that's a good thing?

 

I don't see why you have to knock down the library to redevelop the rest of the site. Knock the rest down, build the new college around the old library. From an aesthetic perspective, some of the countries most interesting buildings are the ones that incorporate old and new. Kings cross station as a prime example.

From a social perspective, keeping the library and building a sixth form continues to serve all Barnsley's residents and brings new students in to the town. Knocking the library down means some people lose out because the new location of the library is inferior in almost every way.

 

I'm sure I read that the building is structurally linked to the others so I don't think it's as simple as not knocking it down and building round it. Sure it's possible but then all comes back to how much £££ is available.

Ideally you keep it, granted, and I'd have liked to have seen it stay. But I think redeveloping that end of town completely is better than just some of it.