Why don’t they ask the public what they want?
FOLLOWING the news that Freshney Place could host new leisure facilities and an ice rink in a council takeover, you had your say on our Facebook page.
Roge Ladson: Just entice big named company shops to the town centre. We already have an ice rink and the cinema at Cleethorpes, so stop wasting our money on your ridiculous ideas.
Samantha Moore: We had at least two cinemas in Grimsby. We had a decent shopping centre with a small eatery upstairs not unlike Meadow Hall. Note the word “had”. We now have a failing shopping centre and have not for a long time had a cinema in Grimsby. We have lost all the good things.
Chloe Drinkell: I’ve been saying for a while our centre needs to be more like St Stephens in Hull. There are shops, decent places to eat and then there’s also trampolines and rock climbing, etc.
I’m still not convinced we need a cinema.
Cleethorpes Parkway serves the area well and it’s an independent. Unless the Parkway is opening a smaller place in town, I don’t think it is fair to take custom away.
Give us things we haven’t got rather than things we do.
Susan Young: But no shops! Just driving people out of town to shop. Personally if I want anything special or at Christmas I’d go to Lincoln or even better York to shop.
Stuart Hallberg: Hopefully it happens. A good leisure complex with associated bars and eateries and a live music venue to pull in big names would be great.
The shops aren’t needed particularly, because most buy online now so the high street is dead.
Patricia Cottrell: We need a decent bus station. And it was so lovely thinking you could actually get to a local airport.
Wendy S Taylor: Didn’t the council own the old Grimsby Leisure Centre and Ice Rink? That didn’t work out well.
Trouble is, we do everything tiny sized so nothing is suitable for any proper competitions to make ourselves attractive for holding events. Even international ones. A full-sized 50m pool with a proper diving area would be an amazing asset for the area. Maybe it would encourage people to swim again. Lorraine Smith: Yawn! Yawn! Yawn! Believe it when we see, all this so-called stuff happening to our shopping centre.
Jemima LouMax: Is our council seriously that behind with the times and that wasteful? We have a perfectly good ice rink and we also have a perfectly good cinema. That is not what is needed in the area. There are places more at risk that need the council’s help but they get fixated on a project. It was the relief road near Morrisons, it’s now Freshney Place. When will they ever learn to listen to the residents? Chris Sockmonkey Hill: I will believe it when I see it. We already have an ice skating rink down Cromwell Road. Why don’t these people ask the public what we want?
Pippa Ann Ward: Maybe just a seasonal ice rink outdoors and a decent Crimbo market so we don’t have to go off to Lincoln and York. All that space out the front. We could have a food festival, kids’ events, a fairground, drive-in movies.
The centre needs a better selection of stores with them not having to pay extortionate rent. It needs a decent food court with different choices all side by side and a decent seating area.
Frieda Hind: All the money spent on Top Town, some of it wasted. It’s about time money was spent on other parts of North East Lincolnshire, especially the villages. We don’t need another ice rink and we have a perfectly good cinema.