Sheepfolds investment plans

Whole city should be really excited by Riverside Sunderland, it's really going to improve the outlook and view people have on us. Get that train line linking up Durham & Sunderland and watch the place be packed Monday to Sunday. Horrendous that it isn't already in place. Can't wait for the next 5 years of development, only wish it could be up sooner.

 

Even said a monorail

 

Just rubber it in.

 

We’ve been here before so tread carefully

 

Going to be a class whisky and cigar based bar and room here and it's being announced next week. Some really top class people getting involved.

 

I feel the same. Hopefully I'm not too old by then. Mind I've seen the town buzzing on weekends when i was younger and hope that returns. I went to see The Damned last week at the fire station. A cracking venue. We were sitting in foyer area and looking out and it was nice to see it all lit up done out nice outside. Hopefully more of the town can be done like that. We are starting to get a thriving seafront now and hopefully can do the same in town.

 

Good news keeps on rolling....

 

JW the founder and PW the newish CEO are MLFs. Used to work there and was with them at the Old Trafford semi final against Millwall

 

Edit - and just for clarification this is not where the info I got about KLD etc came from

 

I'm not from Sunderland, I've never lived in Sunderland and in fact I've only ever been there for the football, but it's about ****ing time there was investment in the city

 

Was in Sunderland today, picked my sister up from Millfield and drive over to Seaburn for a family meal.

The changes in the city are really visible, and really good.

 

All good to hear this. I don't live there, but Sunderland has needed this blast of investment and forward thinking for a long time.
It has terrific natural assets including the river and the sea front. Hopefully, one thing leads to another, as so often happens with this kind of thing.

 

Knowing the Leader of the Council, that is his plan. PreviousLy there had been a number of separate plans across the city but no joined up thinking. Four years ago he brought all the different plans in and got senior officers to pull them into a single plan, which became the strategic plan for Sunderland. It is this plan we are seeing take shape now.

By the time he is up for election next he will have had eight years to implement the plan, that is the time to judge how he has done, but up to now it is going well.

 

We're not from Sunderland so only ever go for matches.

When we drive up we'll take different routes just to vary things. The place is much better than people make out imo.

The drive from the A690 exit is decent housing, the Uni, the bridge and the ground. The Hylton Grange route is along the river, all quite tidy and pleasant considering it was a huge heavy industrial area. It makes me laugh when fans from Wigan, Rotherham, etc, mock the place when they come from real shyteholes.

 

Yes. Same here.

Sunderland certainly has been in need of change and improvement. So have numerous other places, too many to name but including those you mentioned.


Sunderland though, is clearly on the way now, including things like business wi fi access and so on, which it won an award for as the best in England recently. Most of these other places are seeing no such leap forward, and once a place starts making strides like this, others see it and join in.

Great to see.

 

From what I was told this was the 'Dell' concept. ...

... use the name and a small investment to attract people who 'wanted in' then sit back and claim all the credit.

I think it would've worked because people would want to cosy up to the big boys and Dell would've put the Council/Metro/train companies under enormous pressure simply by making a simple statement.

Sadly Donald ruined that opportunity but I'm probably happier with what we have now.

 

That Hylton Grange route along the river and on the other side, Depot and Pallion are ideal for residential areas given how vast the amount of land is / mostly unused now. Time the council attracted private investment as there is so much potential. Sunderland's river/quayside must be one of the biggest in the UK that is bare wasteland on the edge of a large city. Has the ability to look unreal.

 

i have always thought that making the riverside walk more of 'a thing' would be perfect, build into the bankside and stick some bars/restaraunts along there...maybe throw a boat trip, low level footbridge/ferry, have the odd 'zip-wire day' across the water, use it to link the town itself to roker and more or less avoiding the roads...so much potential i feel.

 

The area around the Aspire ridge is planned as a new housing village.