VIDEO: Get a good a look at this view of the Imax - it's the last time you'll see it (From Bournemouth Echo)

surely The Echo must be worried when The Imax has gone as there will be nothing to write about!

how about a Souvenir pullout?

Excellent ! I can't wait ! :)))

Oh good. We'll get a better view of the wind turbines.

Edna Cheese (Mrs) wrote:
Oh good. We'll get a better view of the wind turbines.

Funny. lol

Amazed how little distruption there is. Walk past most days. No dust, tidy and progressing quicky. Contractors seem to be doing a great job.

Good.......

What a total waste of good money. Old people and handicapped children are going without and all the echo, the council, and a bunch of sad people are worried about is the view from the road for 200 metres.

err, you don't still think it is about a view, do you ?

The council are spending £10m clearing the site and have openly stated that it is preperation for a 'comprehensive redevelopment;

You don't think they are doing that out of the goodness of their heart or a wish for a view do you ? Or that it has been rushed through to sit their empty for years upon years ?

Still, the gullible will flap their hands in excitement like seals after a couple of bucket loads of red bull - and the usual suspects , fellow travellers and paid employers will turn up here under various other names trying to defend this next scam, mostly by attacking those who know what is really going on. Full of council bull in their case.

plus ca change

as they would say the other side of this (very) temporay view

Bob49 wrote:
err, you don't still think it is about a view, do you ?

The council are spending £10m clearing the site and have openly stated that it is preperation for a 'comprehensive redevelopment;

You don't think they are doing that out of the goodness of their heart or a wish for a view do you ? Or that it has been rushed through to sit their empty for years upon years ?

Still, the gullible will flap their hands in excitement like seals after a couple of bucket loads of red bull - and the usual suspects , fellow travellers and paid employers will turn up here under various other names trying to defend this next scam, mostly by attacking those who know what is really going on. Full of council bull in their case.

plus ca change

as they would say the other side of this (very) temporay view

Bob the thing is you credit the council with an ability to plan and foresee the future far beyond reality IMHO. What I see in the council is often incompetence, a lack of foresight at times and as in the case of the reef a complete inability to properly manage a project.
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What I don't see is evil intentions most councillors want to do the best for the town, whether they have the ability to make that happen is more open to question. I wonder if you believe the US faked the moon landings because your belief in conspiracy theories makes me wonder if you do.
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Yes the council want to redevelop the site but there ability to do that is still open to question and I believe any development would have to be sympathetic to the view. I think that will mean we have the view for a minimum of 10 years and probably a lot longer, we will of course see but since I have put a time scale down would you like to do the same and tell us by what date the view will disappear.

"Get a good a look at this view of the Imax - it's the last time you'll see it"...... PASS

must be a desperate sign when a council proudly claims credit for "un-building " something! Maybe the history books will read "in 2013 the council successfully unbuilt an IMAX cinema, this was just the first in a line of glittering demolitions...."

Why didn't this particular I-Max actually work out? According to the interweb, as of September 2012, there are 697 IMAX theatres in 52 countries.

So what went wrong with the Bournemouth one - so drastically wrong it has to be demolished?

The most annoying aspect of this building, and the surf reef, is that they are explicit demonstrations of gross incompetence by our elected representatives from which they can just walk away, leaving us the council tax payers to pick up the tab!

Bonkeydollocks wrote:
Why didn't this particular I-Max actually work out? According to the interweb, as of September 2012, there are 697 IMAX theatres in 52 countries.

So what went wrong with the Bournemouth one - so drastically wrong it has to be demolished?

It wasn't exactly the most attractive building, it looked more like a warehouse, I believe it was in the wrong location and hard to get to and I believe that as always the councils own extortionate parking charges had a part to play just as these charges are killing the town centre.
Lets face it, anything the council has it's grubby hands in never works.

Why not knock that big old yellow hotel next door down next then get rid off that bloody awful pier& put an xscape there while were at it open up the promenade road to traffic get shot of the long outdated awful beachhuts and replace them with nice bars restaurants & small boutique hotels?

bbird wrote:
Amazed how little distruption there is. Walk past most days. No dust, tidy and progressing quicky. Contractors seem to be doing a great job.

Perhaps they could do same with Town Hall

For an even better view of the sea just stand with it behind you, looking out to sea.

This applies to all building and obstructions.

Djsmith8 wrote:
Why not knock that big old yellow hotel next door down next then get rid off that bloody awful pier& put an xscape there while were at it open up the promenade road to traffic get shot of the long outdated awful beachhuts and replace them with nice bars restaurants & small boutique hotels?

I'm glad you are not in charge of the beach! Allow cars!! They are already allowed in some places, which is too much as far as I'm concerned. The beach huts are great, if in need of updating. We could do with more restaurants and cafes on the beach though.

It was a lovely building i loved the glass front. Shame the vandals have to have their way instead of turning the building into something useful

chrisii1991 wrote:
It was a lovely building i loved the glass front. Shame the vandals have to have their way instead of turning the building into something useful

They are turning it into something useful, hardcore.

Just had another look on the web cam, the view is looking better by the hour.

Glashen wrote:

Bob49 wrote:
err, you don't still think it is about a view, do you ?

The council are spending £10m clearing the site and have openly stated that it is preperation for a 'comprehensive redevelopment;

You don't think they are doing that out of the goodness of their heart or a wish for a view do you ? Or that it has been rushed through to sit their empty for years upon years ?

Still, the gullible will flap their hands in excitement like seals after a couple of bucket loads of red bull - and the usual suspects , fellow travellers and paid employers will turn up here under various other names trying to defend this next scam, mostly by attacking those who know what is really going on. Full of council bull in their case.

plus ca change

as they would say the other side of this (very) temporay view

Bob the thing is you credit the council with an ability to plan and foresee the future far beyond reality IMHO. What I see in the council is often incompetence, a lack of foresight at times and as in the case of the reef a complete inability to properly manage a project.
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What I don't see is evil intentions most councillors want to do the best for the town, whether they have the ability to make that happen is more open to question. I wonder if you believe the US faked the moon landings because your belief in conspiracy theories makes me wonder if you do.
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Yes the council want to redevelop the site but there ability to do that is still open to question and I believe any development would have to be sympathetic to the view. I think that will mean we have the view for a minimum of 10 years and probably a lot longer, we will of course see but since I have put a time scale down would you like to do the same and tell us by what date the view will disappear.

err, the moon landings were faked and have little to do with this debate, other than to highlight the paucity of your argument.

What IS real is the way the Boscombe seafront was managed. The flats were built and the council was able to do that by convincing the gullible that they would deliver on the rest of the deal - the bit you like to call "the best for the town"

Likewise Kings Park where the planning permission was given yet the council again failed to deliver "the best for the town".

As to "any development would have to be sympathetic to the view" perhaps you might care to look at the Moneychine development where we were told all manner of guff about sympoathy and views - all of which went out of the window once the building work began.

And you naively think the rest of us are going to believe it won't happen again. It happened with the original Imax building and all we got (as with Boscombe) was a bit of hand wringing and tutting from the council ... just as we will get here.

So in spite of your suggestions of conspiracies and moon landings this is about reality. It is about what is going on now and what will go on in the near futire. And if you cannot wait then I suggest you have a look through the archives and see where I was saying that the council intented building on the Bath road car park and the Imax site, long before the council had even mentioned any idea of even buying the site.


It's going to happen whatever words you and others try to use to discredit the truth of the matter.

For once I agree with you Bob49

What I find was the most distasteful in removal of the IMAX building was the complete destruction of the materials used in it's construction instead of recycling and reusing as much as possible before final demolition. Since I no longer live near Bournemouth, I have had to rely on the videos provided by the "Echo". In those videos, I saw glass being shattered, sheet material being ripped up, long steel columns and steel cross beams being bent and torched for disposal, instead of being
preserved for resale. The IMAX was a lightly constructed building for all of it's size, with possibly up to 50% of the material used in it's construction being reusable. And the process of de-construction instead of demolition could have provided employment to a number of businesses in the recycled materials field as well.

Bob49 wrote:

Glashen wrote:

Bob49 wrote:
err, you don't still think it is about a view, do you ?

The council are spending £10m clearing the site and have openly stated that it is preperation for a 'comprehensive redevelopment;

You don't think they are doing that out of the goodness of their heart or a wish for a view do you ? Or that it has been rushed through to sit their empty for years upon years ?

Still, the gullible will flap their hands in excitement like seals after a couple of bucket loads of red bull - and the usual suspects , fellow travellers and paid employers will turn up here under various other names trying to defend this next scam, mostly by attacking those who know what is really going on. Full of council bull in their case.

plus ca change

as they would say the other side of this (very) temporay view

Bob the thing is you credit the council with an ability to plan and foresee the future far beyond reality IMHO. What I see in the council is often incompetence, a lack of foresight at times and as in the case of the reef a complete inability to properly manage a project.
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What I don't see is evil intentions most councillors want to do the best for the town, whether they have the ability to make that happen is more open to question. I wonder if you believe the US faked the moon landings because your belief in conspiracy theories makes me wonder if you do.
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Yes the council want to redevelop the site but there ability to do that is still open to question and I believe any development would have to be sympathetic to the view. I think that will mean we have the view for a minimum of 10 years and probably a lot longer, we will of course see but since I have put a time scale down would you like to do the same and tell us by what date the view will disappear.

err, the moon landings were faked and have little to do with this debate, other than to highlight the paucity of your argument.

What IS real is the way the Boscombe seafront was managed. The flats were built and the council was able to do that by convincing the gullible that they would deliver on the rest of the deal - the bit you like to call "the best for the town"

Likewise Kings Park where the planning permission was given yet the council again failed to deliver "the best for the town".

As to "any development would have to be sympathetic to the view" perhaps you might care to look at the Moneychine development where we were told all manner of guff about sympoathy and views - all of which went out of the window once the building work began.

And you naively think the rest of us are going to believe it won't happen again. It happened with the original Imax building and all we got (as with Boscombe) was a bit of hand wringing and tutting from the council ... just as we will get here.

So in spite of your suggestions of conspiracies and moon landings this is about reality. It is about what is going on now and what will go on in the near futire. And if you cannot wait then I suggest you have a look through the archives and see where I was saying that the council intented building on the Bath road car park and the Imax site, long before the council had even mentioned any idea of even buying the site.


It's going to happen whatever words you and others try to use to discredit the truth of the matter.

Bob49 wrote: "err, the moon landings were faked..."

Glashen - if you were wondering whether Bob49 was a troll, or simply just daft, you now have your answer...

You really cannot take anything he writes seriously... it's mostly nonsense anyway, but occasionally he excels himself... as with this 'moon landings were faked' comment.

And to think I tried to have a rational debate with the guy, a while back.... Hey ho, we live and learn....

JamesBond0070 wrote:
What I find was the most distasteful in removal of the IMAX building was the complete destruction of the materials used in it's construction instead of recycling and reusing as much as possible before final demolition. Since I no longer live near Bournemouth, I have had to rely on the videos provided by the "Echo". In those videos, I saw glass being shattered, sheet material being ripped up, long steel columns and steel cross beams being bent and torched for disposal, instead of being
preserved for resale. The IMAX was a lightly constructed building for all of it's size, with possibly up to 50% of the material used in it's construction being reusable. And the process of de-construction instead of demolition could have provided employment to a number of businesses in the recycled materials field as well.

I agree its ridiculous!

Arjay wrote:

Bob49 wrote:

Glashen wrote:

Bob49 wrote:
err, you don't still think it is about a view, do you ?

The council are spending £10m clearing the site and have openly stated that it is preperation for a 'comprehensive redevelopment;

You don't think they are doing that out of the goodness of their heart or a wish for a view do you ? Or that it has been rushed through to sit their empty for years upon years ?

Still, the gullible will flap their hands in excitement like seals after a couple of bucket loads of red bull - and the usual suspects , fellow travellers and paid employers will turn up here under various other names trying to defend this next scam, mostly by attacking those who know what is really going on. Full of council bull in their case.

plus ca change

as they would say the other side of this (very) temporay view

Bob the thing is you credit the council with an ability to plan and foresee the future far beyond reality IMHO. What I see in the council is often incompetence, a lack of foresight at times and as in the case of the reef a complete inability to properly manage a project.
-
What I don't see is evil intentions most councillors want to do the best for the town, whether they have the ability to make that happen is more open to question. I wonder if you believe the US faked the moon landings because your belief in conspiracy theories makes me wonder if you do.
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Yes the council want to redevelop the site but there ability to do that is still open to question and I believe any development would have to be sympathetic to the view. I think that will mean we have the view for a minimum of 10 years and probably a lot longer, we will of course see but since I have put a time scale down would you like to do the same and tell us by what date the view will disappear.

err, the moon landings were faked and have little to do with this debate, other than to highlight the paucity of your argument.

What IS real is the way the Boscombe seafront was managed. The flats were built and the council was able to do that by convincing the gullible that they would deliver on the rest of the deal - the bit you like to call "the best for the town"

Likewise Kings Park where the planning permission was given yet the council again failed to deliver "the best for the town".

As to "any development would have to be sympathetic to the view" perhaps you might care to look at the Moneychine development where we were told all manner of guff about sympoathy and views - all of which went out of the window once the building work began.

And you naively think the rest of us are going to believe it won't happen again. It happened with the original Imax building and all we got (as with Boscombe) was a bit of hand wringing and tutting from the council ... just as we will get here.

So in spite of your suggestions of conspiracies and moon landings this is about reality. It is about what is going on now and what will go on in the near futire. And if you cannot wait then I suggest you have a look through the archives and see where I was saying that the council intented building on the Bath road car park and the Imax site, long before the council had even mentioned any idea of even buying the site.


It's going to happen whatever words you and others try to use to discredit the truth of the matter.

Bob49 wrote: "err, the moon landings were faked..."

Glashen - if you were wondering whether Bob49 was a troll, or simply just daft, you now have your answer...

You really cannot take anything he writes seriously... it's mostly nonsense anyway, but occasionally he excels himself... as with this 'moon landings were faked' comment.

And to think I tried to have a rational debate with the guy, a while back.... Hey ho, we live and learn....

I honestly was surprised (shouldn't have been I suppose but I was) I agree it does put his arguments in perspective. A bit like discovering the majority of US residents don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution (Go on, Bob enlighten us on that one as well).
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Anyway back to the issue. You didn't answer my question? "By what date will the view disappeared".
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You say you have the power of prediction, come on give us the answer!

Sorry a bit of a typo should have read,
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Anyway back to the issue. You didn't answer my question? "By what date will the view disappear".

Bonkeydollocks wrote:
Why didn't this particular I-Max actually work out? According to the interweb, as of September 2012, there are 697 IMAX theatres in 52 countries.

So what went wrong with the Bournemouth one - so drastically wrong it has to be demolished?

For a start, no free parking.

Why do you think Tower Park's multiplex cinema is still flourishing?

There are not enough tourists and bedsit dwellers living nearby to support an IMAX.

"Sorry a bit of a typo should have read,"

Likewise

My point was that Glashen's attempt to deflect from what is really going on was to introduce some unconnected stuff about the moon landings as with Arjays twaddle about the theory of evolution.


So for the record, and for those who would rather the debate did not focus on the subject in hand, I have no reason to believe the moon landings were faked, in any shape or form etc

As to believing in Bournemouth council keeping to their word I would suggest local taxpayers check back on what happened when the Imax building did not stick to the agreed plans, what happened when the Moneycombe Chine flats went above the agreed height (the skyline), what has happened to the Ice Rink.

Of course certain folk will try to defend the council, that's their job. So whilst they are at it perhaps they could also explain to the rest of us where are the 90 new jobs at Boscombe seafront, the new piazza in front of the pier, the upmarket shops and cafe on the pier, the entertainment on the pier, the £2m plus missing sales of the now beach pods, the 10,000 surf visits....

And why all that failed and yet tens and tens of thousands more have had to be spent replenishing (only) that bit of beach opposite the reef.

Incompetence or simply that was never the intention ? When you work that out, the rest concerning the Imax and Bath Hill road carpark site falls into place

Bob49 wrote:
"Sorry a bit of a typo should have read,"

Likewise

My point was that Glashen's attempt to deflect from what is really going on was to introduce some unconnected stuff about the moon landings as with Arjays twaddle about the theory of evolution.


So for the record, and for those who would rather the debate did not focus on the subject in hand, I have no reason to believe the moon landings were faked, in any shape or form etc

As to believing in Bournemouth council keeping to their word I would suggest local taxpayers check back on what happened when the Imax building did not stick to the agreed plans, what happened when the Moneycombe Chine flats went above the agreed height (the skyline), what has happened to the Ice Rink.

Of course certain folk will try to defend the council, that's their job. So whilst they are at it perhaps they could also explain to the rest of us where are the 90 new jobs at Boscombe seafront, the new piazza in front of the pier, the upmarket shops and cafe on the pier, the entertainment on the pier, the £2m plus missing sales of the now beach pods, the 10,000 surf visits....

And why all that failed and yet tens and tens of thousands more have had to be spent replenishing (only) that bit of beach opposite the reef.

Incompetence or simply that was never the intention ? When you work that out, the rest concerning the Imax and Bath Hill road carpark site falls into place

Still no answer to my question,
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"By what date will the view disappear".
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and by the way I am not defending the council, just trying to see the world as it is, which is why your now retracted denial of the moon landings was relevant.

Bob49 wrote:
"as with Arjays twaddle about the theory of evolution."

As I have never even mentioned the theory of evolution, I fail to see how Bob49 can evaluate my views on that subject as 'twaddle' or otherwise?...

...but then again, as we have seen, he does tend to get rather confused about things.....

Will the demolition be completed on time? There's only 11 days left until the end of March!!