Wewullywinky wrote:
Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them.

What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment.

As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Scaremonger Bob wrote:

Wewullywinky wrote: Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them. What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment. As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Another 9/11? Complete rubbish! "Won't somebody think of the children!"-esque reaction. Why would a building need to be in a flight path to be open to that? Why would a skyscraper in a minor European town be a target on the scale of the WTC in NY? If you don't like the idea of the tower block, you can say so without having to resort to this sort of crucifix-waving, fearful nonsense. "Argh! We fear change!" Pah! Sorry for being a bit harsh, but using 9/11 to make your point here is utterly ridiculous

Wewullywinky wrote:

Scaremonger Bob wrote:

Wewullywinky wrote: Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them. What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment. As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Another 9/11? Complete rubbish! "Won't somebody think of the children!"-esque reaction. Why would a building need to be in a flight path to be open to that? Why would a skyscraper in a minor European town be a target on the scale of the WTC in NY? If you don't like the idea of the tower block, you can say so without having to resort to this sort of crucifix-waving, fearful nonsense. "Argh! We fear change!" Pah! Sorry for being a bit harsh, but using 9/11 to make your point here is utterly ridiculous

Why is it utterly ridiculous, it's plausable high occupancy building on a flight path in a country where security is pants and data goes missing. A country where terrorists live and use our money to plot against us. A country that leaves it borders open to illegal immagrants and we give them accomodation. All in all it leaves us open to another 9/11 and a very large tower block very close to a landing/takeoff path makes for an open target.

The fact it is on a flighpath is irrelevant - the World Trade Centre was not on a flight path for obvious reasons!

Wewullywinky wrote:
Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them.

What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment.

As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Andy wrote:

Wewullywinky wrote: Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them. What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment. As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Scaremonger Bob is quite right - your argument suggests that no building anywhere in the world should be over a moderate tenament height. What about all those already built? There must be a dozen of these "terrorist death traps" around Southampton! Shall we demolish Weston Towers tomorrow? They are justas much under the flight path as this one! Should we shut down the rail network permanently in case of another Madrid, CLose down all our bus routes, or abandon all football matches in case of another Heysel? I suspect though that like Bob suspects you are just using 9/11 as a Nimby excuse because for some bizarre reason you just don't want to see any progress or development. So let's just leave it as a rat infested bombsite then. Happy now?

Andy wrote:

Wewullywinky wrote: Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them. What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment. As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Scaremonger Bob is quite right - your argument suggests that no building anywhere in the world should be over a moderate tenament height. What about all those already built? There must be a dozen of these "terrorist death traps" around Southampton! Shall we demolish Weston Towers tomorrow? They are justas much under the flight path as this one! Should we shut down the rail network permanently in case of another Madrid, CLose down all our bus routes, or abandon all football matches in case of another Heysel? I suspect though that like Bob suspects you are just using 9/11 as a Nimby excuse because for some bizarre reason you just don't want to see any progress or development. So let's just leave it as a rat infested bombsite then. Happy now?

ken wrote:
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Trevor the Weather wrote:
They could call it Dineage Towers , paint it orange and put a thatched roof on it.

goard wrote:
From Hythe I saw the eternal block of flats - faceless, unimaginable memory of desperateness, which has gone on for many years and no one could honestly say 'WHAT A GATEWAY'and to add another high rise block of flats (as with Redbridge) we all look upon it as a desperate attempt to house the homeless - they deserve a bit of greenery and pride in their surroundings instead of a concrete jungle. Are you all attempting to cage animals - they are HUMANS and deserve better. goard

Mike English wrote:
All this talk of 9/11. Am i missing something? What happened on the 9th of November?

Jim Statetheobvious wrote:

Mike English wrote: All this talk of 9/11. Am i missing something? What happened on the 9th of November?

A far-from-complete selection: 1620 - The Mayflower sights land at Cape Cod 1729 - The Treaty of Seville was signed 1861 - The first recorded Canadian Football match is played 1862 - Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac during American Civil War 1872 - The Great Boston Fire 1887 - Pearl Harbour handed over to USA 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his last known victim 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution 1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences It's also the birthdays of Jill Dando, Chris Jericho and Tony Slattery, amongst others, and the anniversary of the death of Neville Chamberlain.

Wewullywinky wrote:
Obviosuly Southampton is expecting an infulx of immagrants and victims of recession and need yet another block of flats to house them. What is it with this city council and tall buildings scaring our city. Do they have a tall building fetish at the moment. As ospreysaint says a building of this size on the flight path of 02 is not sensible, just leaves it open for another 9/11

Jim Statetheobvious wrote:

Mike English wrote: All this talk of 9/11. Am i missing something? What happened on the 9th of November?

A far-from-complete selection: 1620 - The Mayflower sights land at Cape Cod 1729 - The Treaty of Seville was signed 1861 - The first recorded Canadian Football match is played 1862 - Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac during American Civil War 1872 - The Great Boston Fire 1887 - Pearl Harbour handed over to USA 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his last known victim 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution 1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences It's also the birthdays of Jill Dando, Chris Jericho and Tony Slattery, amongst others, and the anniversary of the death of Neville Chamberlain.

Barry George wrote:

Jim Statetheobvious wrote:

Mike English wrote: All this talk of 9/11. Am i missing something? What happened on the 9th of November?

A far-from-complete selection: 1620 - The Mayflower sights land at Cape Cod 1729 - The Treaty of Seville was signed 1861 - The first recorded Canadian Football match is played 1862 - Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac during American Civil War 1872 - The Great Boston Fire 1887 - Pearl Harbour handed over to USA 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his last known victim 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution 1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences It's also the birthdays of Jill Dando, Chris Jericho and Tony Slattery, amongst others, and the anniversary of the death of Neville Chamberlain.

Will Jill Dando be doing anything for her birthday this year?

Dave wrote:
If you look on the Southampton city web site there is a planning application make by Barrats that was withdrawn.
The reason being that they had test borings made on the site and found that the ground would not take a building more than 6 stories high.So 27 stories will sink in the mud and produce underground car parks