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Just been thinking that its been a bit quiet...guess with MECA 'dominating' the news along with stabbings of course it did occur to me that nowt has been said about this in recent months...can't even remember where they were talking of putting it!

That'd be awesome, I had no idea there was even talks of getting one.

The snowdome was surely back in the days of Terry Brady....we could have probably been in there by now if Brady had hung around.  Personally I'm happier still being in the CG.

I thought it was an entirely separate council-based thingy. Seem to remember JT talking about it a couple of years ago in relation to Oasis rebuild

The snowdome was gonna be on the old Claires warehouse sight at northstar. The plans included an ice pad too, which would've replaced the rink at the Link. However, I've heard nothing about it for over a year, and in that time a proposal for a snowdome in bristol has been turned down, but has been moved to Weston and is apparently likely to get the go ahead. That'll probably be the final nail in an already closing coffin for a Swindon snowdome!

You're probably right...the fact that it involved SBC and that cunt John Terry, is probably why it escaped my attention.

:D

John Terry's mum tried to steal it and his old man got quite excited as he thuoght it was a cocaine factory

Another great idea that goes nowhere thanks to our appalling council...

Really? How so?

Allegedly....

I can think of much better ways for the council to piss money up the wall than a giant fake snowy hill

hardly pissing money up the wall, the snowzone in mk makes a mint, before Hemel there were people travelling from Brighton on week nights just for a couple of hours of riding, add to that the bowling, cinema, bars, club, restaurants - it's a goldmine.

First I've heard of a Snowdome being built in Weston, but it appears to have some substance

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/snow_dome_heading_for_weston_1_705773

It'd put us on a slippery slope...

The whole thing sounds a bit flakey ...

Come on...its snow joke.

Chill out with the pun usage you lot

I've heard the whole scheme's been put on ice

I cannot understand the frosty posts on here.

you are all taking the piste

It's downhill from here onwards

it'd create an avalanche of complaints.

This thread's really skating on thin ice

I don't think the project was fully financed. Due to the global meltdown they only have a slush fund.

I'm not a financial expert but I get your drift.

I think the problem was their debts snowballed.

Don't make a mountain out of a mogul

Ski Sunday

Like loaning money to a WiFi company run by Rikki Hunt that don't seem to be doing much other than talk about putting wifi into highworth

*Bump*

I know plans are just that, plans, but this looks very, very promising. And as it's privately owned by a venture capital firm now, they're likely to actually want to see a development through and get a return on their investment.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10290972.New_plans_revealed_for_Oasis_site/

A little unimaginative with the other facilities (another cinema, another bowling alley) but good to see something on the drawing board.  Needs to be linked in to the town centre with a proper pedestrian/cycle thoroughfare under the railway line.

It needs a link to the town center where someone doesnt get mugged every other week

There's a swathe of town to the north of the railway line for which the only access to the centre is via a poorly maintained tunnel or using one of a few manky looking underpasses.  They could do so much more to make the routes in to town more appealing.

I reckon this will end in tears. We don't need another bowling alley, one will fold. Same for the cinema, will be the 4th by the time it opens. Don't see the point in a new development fucking over those that are already there. Reckon it would make more sense to increase the size of the arena and add other leisure facilities instead.

We need a new ice rink, which was in the original proposal!

Spot on.


Spot on.

Why? What's wrong with the Link?

Problem solved, ice rink and arena all in one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiWHz32cl4