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Work on the project to transform the Civic Centre put back two more weeks

8:00pm Tuesday 31st August 2010 in


FINAL planning permission for Southampton's proposed £15m Sea City museum has been postponed tonight.

Councillors were set to give the final go-ahead for the controversial Titanic-inspired extension to the west wing of the Grade II listed building.

Now council leisure chiefs face a race against time to open an exhibition to mark the April 2012 centenary anniversary of the sinking of the liner in which 549 Sotonians lost their lives.

They must now wait at least another two weeks for a planning decision on whether a small spur road off Havelock Road will remain open to traffic before builders can start work.

The old magistrates’ courts and central police station will be transformed into two permanent exhibitions, entitled Southampton’s Titanic Story and Gateway to the World.

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Comments(19)

G0Rf says...
4:28pm Tue 31 Aug 10

WOW.

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Lone Ranger says...
5:02pm Tue 31 Aug 10

and just under £4m from selling unspecified “assets”.
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And the unspecified assets are .......... ....................
.???????????????????

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chapelsaint says...
5:16pm Tue 31 Aug 10

Lone Ranger wrote:
and just under £4m from selling unspecified “assets”. . And the unspecified assets are .......... .................... .???????????????????
Would you believe-------unspec
ified?

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chapelsaint says...
5:20pm Tue 31 Aug 10

"He said the museum will create hundreds of local jobs"

When the actual construction and fitting out work is completed (more than likely by contractors), how many full time permanent jobs will there be?

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forest hump says...
6:27pm Tue 31 Aug 10

Complete waste of 15M. This will be another drain on taxpaying Soton residents

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Brite Spark says...
7:07pm Tue 31 Aug 10

It should not be located at the Civic Centre, wrong idea - wrong location. Southampton's abused waterfront is in dire need of redevelopment. There should be a decent maritime museum that should incorporate much more than the Titanic story. Also build an aeronautical/Spitfir
e museum as part of that redevelopment.
If you build it, they will come.

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didicoy says...
7:21pm Tue 31 Aug 10

As usual Southampton's moaning brigade are present!!!!!

I'm happy we are getting something to attract people to this city

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didicoy says...
7:27pm Tue 31 Aug 10

forest hump wrote:
Complete waste of 15M. This will be another drain on taxpaying Soton residents
Living in Hythe, not much concern for you is it?

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kingston saint says...
8:11pm Tue 31 Aug 10

I could design a better museum than that! Well I can I'm a great young architect :-)

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Balmoral says...
8:40pm Tue 31 Aug 10

How about buying back the QE2 and making it into a museum for the spitfire and Titanic, with hotel and restaurants on board ?

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da boss says...
8:54pm Tue 31 Aug 10

just build a replica titanic ala blue peter from yoghurt cartons and egg boxes,much cheaper.

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News Fanatic says...
9:34pm Tue 31 Aug 10

The design is hideous and totally out of keeping with the Civic Centre. Surely they could come up with something better than this monstrosity.

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clausentum says...
9:36pm Tue 31 Aug 10

didicoy wrote:
As usual Southampton's moaning brigade are present!!!!!

I'm happy we are getting something to attract people to this city
"As usual Southampton's moaning brigade are present!!!!!"

Says he, moaning!!!

Priceless.

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forest hump says...
9:45pm Tue 31 Aug 10

didicoy wrote:
forest hump wrote: Complete waste of 15M. This will be another drain on taxpaying Soton residents
Living in Hythe, not much concern for you is it?
Making assumptions are we?

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soton1980 says...
9:55pm Tue 31 Aug 10

I totally agree. Not to mention the fact that the proposed building is not in keeping with the grade II listed Civic Centre building. As you quite rightly say, the waterfront is in need of redevelopment and this museum could have been the catalyst towards achieving that.
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Southampton City Council are such hypocrites. They moan when people who have listed buildings in the city make minor changes and yet propose the construction of this monstrosity onto the side of a grade II listed building.

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Lord Ikea says...
10:10pm Tue 31 Aug 10

The only place for a Titanic Museum is Town Quay which is very close to where the ship sailed from, Not on a hill near a Town Hall that was not even built when she sailed

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Linesman says...
11:44pm Tue 31 Aug 10

An expensive opening ceremony, with booze and bun-fight for the Councillors, with the Council taxpayers picking up the tab.
Afterwards?
A white elephant!

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OSPREYSAINT says...
11:56pm Tue 31 Aug 10

I predict like most pie in the sky projects in Southampton, it will sink faster than the ship itself. More wasted taxpayers money.

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MartinWellbourne says...
12:01am Wed 1 Sep 10

chapelsaint wrote:
Lone Ranger wrote: and just under £4m from selling unspecified “assets”. . And the unspecified assets are .......... .................... .???????????????????
Would you believe-------unspec ified?
The Council are looking like fools - these "unspecified assets" need to be made clear - and the spur road - come on that's a feeble excuse. The project took on water earlier this evening - wait two weeks and guess what - the deadline to open in time will not be met and the project will sink for good.

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