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Anyone heard anything about half the town centre being shut in Swindon because of the BHS building collapsing?

Nope.

On about the old BHS building? What are / were they doing to it?

I dunno, i've just been told by friends who were planning on going into town to not bother because it's collapsed. Weren't they knocking it down anyway?

They were supposedly refurbishing it.

Looks like they'll be stuck in the old Woolies store a bit longer then.

knew they were knocking it down and building a new site there perhaps they just finished knocking it down so have closed the town centre?

The scaffolding collapsed. No one hurt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8605000/8605247.stm

In other news some drunk youths sat on the wall outside our office over Easter and it collasped they also left litter and cider cans!

Yeah we were in Vodafone when it happened, apparently a gust of wind caught it. They closed off all the path around it, guess they'll just put more scaffolding up to support it more.

Bloody Poles.

You're blaming the wrong equipment there nev - it was the bricks' fault.

Just cant get the scaff these days.

I'm surprised we haven't had oxford on here singing 'swindon town is falling down'

Miserable bunch, just because they're losing.

How do you know they were drunk youths?

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"Oh, bugger"

"Falling Down Sale Now On"

Made me laugh, that did.

Unless Swindon town centre has improved considerably in the past four years it should be nuked and rebuilt.

Ummm...it has effectively been nuked, CR. Vast swathes have been modelled on Bomber Harris's boys outings to Dresden.

'Should be rebuilt' is another matter. Probably never or at least not in my lifetime.

There was another thread about this a few years back.

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,31343.0.html

So what's the latest, then?  Any of the old plans being resurrected now that the recession is over (just about)?

People complain about Swindon but I was in the centre a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in ages, and it's looking a lot tidier now they're redoing Regent Street and the area down by the Brunel

Did you see all the empty shops ?

Swindon at the moment is a sh1t hole, they need to get on with this regeneration they have been talking about for the last few years - that seems to be this council though, all talk no action.

I agree with Reeves. It looks as if it's getting somewhere half decentish looking, at last. Not much they can do about the empty shops is there?

Needs a flower stall though

You're mistaken, this is a thread about BHS collapsing.