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I actually liked the previous exterior look of the Tesco store at Bromley by Bow much more that the new look, but the interior will take a bit of getting used to.
fishislandskin | 15.12.13 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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Quite. Eyesores like the will-be-Tesco building you describe can be found anywhere in Britain. There has been something wrong with the management of public expectations if this can be portrayed as an Olympic failure.
On the other hand, is it possible that the BBC programme might prompt the local authority to get a bit more proactive with its planning permissions - putting in clauses like "it must be built by [date] otherwise you'll be fined big money"?
Malcolm | 15.12.13 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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"Indeed, earlier this month Tesco pumped money into their existing supermarket, recladding the exterior and removing the tower above the entrance, which suggests there are no plans to progress their Tesco Town vision for the foreseeable future."
Given that T£$co is a global player in the supermarket wars now, I suspect that this 'facelift' has got far more to do with T£$co not wanting the rest of the world to look at their nearest UK store to the Olympics and remember their brand by it.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 15.12.13 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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I was flicking through the photos of the site of the Olympic Park before it was closed and cleared. Perhaps the BBC should have reminded themselves the state of the site - fridge mountain, tyre mountain, the old tips etc.
xmb53 | 15.12.13 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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I’m with you most of the time, and agree that the BBC report sounds pretty ridiculous, but I baulked at your claim that ‘many of the blocks of flats erected around here in the run up to the Games are so architecturally vacuous that they’re far more offensive than the crumbling post-industrial remnants the BBC’s been complaining about’.
Granted that the buildings you linked to aren’t the most impressive erections ever, and that Tescotowns tend to be too much Tesco and not enough town (an example is the Tesco-funded rugby stadium in St Helens, basically a Tesco’s with a stadium in the car park), can you really believe vandalized ruins and piles of detritus are better? If you think these evoke a sense of place, then good news! - there are innumerable similar spots round the country where you’d feel right at home.
A dose of scepticism about developers’ regeneration-speak is in order, but here you seem to have gone over to mere ‘anti-gentrification’ posturing.
Teddy Edward | 15.12.13 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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Hmmm. Weren't there stories around the time of the Beijing games, that the authorities had gone round erecting screens around some of their more unsightly areas, to keep them out of view from passing foreigners?
Maybe there's still time for that to happen around London.
Hmmm #2. The river pageant down the Thames, to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Wasn't it brilliant how they'd made that enormous photo of the Royal family, to hang over the front of the Sea Containers building! :)
RogerW | 15.12.13 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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and I've just been to the south bank. where most of the pillars around the Festival Hall, BFI etc have been disguised with piles of what look like green plastic colanders.
amber | 15.12.13 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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