Work to begin on 15-storey tower (From Daily Echo)

Not quite a gateway building isit?
Why do they keep calling it this?
Give it a couple of years and it will be like any other run down tower block across the country

Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Avoid Swathling/Highfield and anywhere around there, with this and the electrical work on Burgess road it's tailed back to J5 and onto the M27 most mornings...

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

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kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

What you described was not helped by having a Labour Council for 25 years, and they're back again! Southampton needed regeneration and 25 years of Labour failed to make/plan any worthwhile changes. They are useless!
Watch this space - they will spend another period of time doing nothing! (except carry through some Tory plans that were already in the pipeline!)

George4th wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

What you described was not helped by having a Labour Council for 25 years, and they're back again! Southampton needed regeneration and 25 years of Labour failed to make/plan any worthwhile changes. They are useless!
Watch this space - they will spend another period of time doing nothing! (except carry through some Tory plans that were already in the pipeline!)

And the award for post most tenuously linked to story goes to....

Polygon/Bedford place, Harrison/ Harefield road, Portswood Rd & Highfield areas all ruined by Hmo`s need I go on? Anyone who lives in an area they don't come from has nothing but disregard and I am not pointing the finger at our smelly Student friends, the new Eastern Euro`s benefit cheats have added to the cesspit Southampton has become.

Something's missing from these comments...

Oh, I know!

Flouride!
UKIP!
Send 'em back to where they came from!

That's better.

Georgem wrote:

George4th wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

What you described was not helped by having a Labour Council for 25 years, and they're back again! Southampton needed regeneration and 25 years of Labour failed to make/plan any worthwhile changes. They are useless!
Watch this space - they will spend another period of time doing nothing! (except carry through some Tory plans that were already in the pipeline!)

And the award for post most tenuously linked to story goes to....

Yep i am afraid that the old Tory dinosaur makes a link from very little ....
I think that his beloved Tory party left us with £5m debt on the Sea Museum ... oh yes and the great legacy of 10 minute free parking in East Street and Bedford Place.
.
Surprised he hasnt moved away yet just like he said he would !!!!

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

TW&T

loonaloop wrote:
Polygon/Bedford place, Harrison/ Harefield road, Portswood Rd & Highfield areas all ruined by Hmo`s need I go on? Anyone who lives in an area they don't come from has nothing but disregard and I am not pointing the finger at our smelly Student friends, the new Eastern Euro`s benefit cheats have added to the cesspit Southampton has become.

Your right, Southampton is a cesspit. The blame for this falls at the feet of the local population though, not at students. There are plenty of areas without students that are just as dirty and neglected as the ones you mentioned.

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Polygon/Bedford place, Harrison/ Harefield road, Portswood Rd & Highfield areas all ruined by Hmo`s need I go on? Anyone who lives in an area they don't come from has nothing but disregard and I am not pointing the finger at our smelly Student friends, the new Eastern Euro`s benefit cheats have added to the cesspit Southampton has become.

Your right, Southampton is a cesspit. The blame for this falls at the feet of the local population though, not at students. There are plenty of areas without students that are just as dirty and neglected as the ones you mentioned.

And you mean the mostly hard-working Eastern Europeans, who do the jobs the lazy native population can't be bothered to anymore?

George4th wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

What you described was not helped by having a Labour Council for 25 years, and they're back again! Southampton needed regeneration and 25 years of Labour failed to make/plan any worthwhile changes. They are useless!
Watch this space - they will spend another period of time doing nothing! (except carry through some Tory plans that were already in the pipeline!)

Absolute nonsense. I could name you a hundered towns/cities with Labour, Tory, or Lib Dem councils that are in a better state of regeneration than Southampton. The fact that Southampton apparently swings between Labour and Tory suggest the problem isn't with the politicians, but with the populace.

kingnotail wrote:

George4th wrote:

kingnotail wrote:

loonaloop wrote:
Ever since the Uni has gotten a grip on Bassett/Swaythling the whole area has been ruined due to the loss of community spirit, I grew up in Swaythling and remember how good it was as a kid with all the Irish hard working families adding a good income to all the local shops & pubs. Since that rabble of Education tourists moved in and killed the area the banks, good local butcher,fish monger & dunnings have been replaced by filthy take away`s and dirty smelly students who don't care one jot about the area. This horrid tower block that is being built on a site that was us locals youth club/community centre is the final nail.

Then please tell me why many other areas of Southampton which don't have any student population are in a similar state of disrepair? I'm not excusing bad behaviour by students, but they cannot be blamed for the dire state if decrepitude that Southampton currently festers in.

What you described was not helped by having a Labour Council for 25 years, and they're back again! Southampton needed regeneration and 25 years of Labour failed to make/plan any worthwhile changes. They are useless!
Watch this space - they will spend another period of time doing nothing! (except carry through some Tory plans that were already in the pipeline!)

Absolute nonsense. I could name you a hundered towns/cities with Labour, Tory, or Lib Dem councils that are in a better state of regeneration than Southampton. The fact that Southampton apparently swings between Labour and Tory suggest the problem isn't with the politicians, but with the populace.

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