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Ever changing face of Wolves

is there any good omakase in wolves?
 
Why not 'Wolverhampton Market', why does it have to have 'City Of' in front of it?
 
City of Wolverhampton Wanderers?
 
Perhaps that's how it'd go if the Council ever bought the club.
 
Since Wolverhampton got City status the council have crowbarred City of into everything. It's a pride / inferiority complex thing depending on how you interpret it
 
MARKakaJIM said:
City of Wolverhampton Council isn't it?
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The official name of the local government district is "City of Wolverhampton". Compare against "Birmingham" or "Manchester ".

It look a bit silly on an OS Landranger.


However, the market charter (much like the city status itself) is actually to the town (so urban area), not the district. They're therefore both technically named incorrectly.
 
I think Marketing companies call it branding.
 
Letter in the express and star today,blaming the bus station for wolverhamptons decline,writer basically says when the buses used to stop everywhere in town depending where you travelled in from,the centre was a lot busier,now everything goes to the bus station,nobody goes into town,so it's dying. I think they're forgetting that when the buses stopped everywhere in town,it was pre internet shopping so you had to go into town to buy stuff,so it was going to be busy.
 
Bushbury - Northicote School now totally flattened, King Charles now houses, kids nursery on Cromwell Road now a Church of some sort. The Woodbine a xxxxing mess
 
Ambitious plans to move away from town centre being merely about shopping announced:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2018/10/04/a-city-transformed-vision-for-wolverhampton-revealed-in-public-exhibitions/

http://www.investwolverhampton.com/invest/key-developments/westside.html

I like the idea, and the images around the art gallery for example look appealing. However, previous development proposals have gone pear shaped.

I do like the idea of creating communal spaces, rather than just a shopping area.
 
Good idea. Town centres are pretty much going to die for anything other than specialised shopping, better to embrace it now and look for other sustainable solutions.
 
Town/city centre living is supposed to make it sustainable,living there brings in restaurants,entertainment shops selling things people want fairly close,supposed to make it more pleasant as people are walking about all the time so petty crime reduces that sort of thing.
I like the image of the art gallery area being pedestrianised(as long as taxis are kept out,don't know how deliveries will work though),clean the buildings up and it'll look great,fair play to the council for giving it a go
 
Keef said:
Town/city centre living is supposed to make it sustainable,living there brings in restaurants,entertainment shops selling things people want fairly close,supposed to make it more pleasant as people are walking about all the time so petty crime reduces that sort of thing.
I like the image of the art gallery area being pedestrianised(as long as taxis are kept out,don't know how deliveries will work though),clean the buildings up and it'll look great,fair play to the council for giving it a go
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Yes, but I think a lot of that depends on fast transport links - a lot of stafford town centre has gone that way with old offices converted to posh flats, makes a lot of sense with it only taking 1 hr 10 mins to middle of london by train. Wolverhampton doesn't have that and only connects to HS2 via slow links out to Stafford or Birmingham I think?

Still prettify and pedestrianise the centre and couple it with high spec middle price living accommodation and it will still happen.
 
15-20 mins on the train to new street,that's pretty good,good transport links to London by train,I think the main problem is how Wolverhampton is thought of elsewhere,always seems to be lumped into crap towns to live lists,and comedians using it with places like Wigan to illustrate dirty past their best towns
 
Keef said:
Town/city centre living is supposed to make it sustainable,living there brings in restaurants,entertainment shops selling things people want fairly close,supposed to make it more pleasant as people are walking about all the time so petty crime reduces that sort of thing.
I like the image of the art gallery area being pedestrianised(as long as taxis are kept out,don't know how deliveries will work though),clean the buildings up and it'll look great,fair play to the council for giving it a go
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Deliveries can be done very early if needed (if there is no route into the back of the outlet) not an insuperable problem - as for taxi's then they can pick up at the start of any pedestrian area, from what is being illustrated it's not that big an area & only a few mins walk to reach the transport.
 
Keef said:
15-20 mins on the train to new street,that's pretty good,good transport links to London by train,I think the main problem is how Wolverhampton is thought of elsewhere,always seems to be lumped into crap towns to live lists,and comedians using it with places like Wigan to illustrate dirty past their best towns
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Trains through and from Wolverhampton are not good though, it's a massive pinch point and they are always packed and late. Even via new st to London your talking an extra 30 mins to London.

I don't think Wolverhampton is quite in the stoke bracket of places to live. Ultimately if you have cost effective town centre living with good transport links people will come.
 
The Newhampton has shut by all accounts.
 
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