| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Crumbs! maybe its me, but ..... | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 05/02/12 14:14:00 |
| It seems pretty bird brained to me. Brentford's population is supposed to have increased by over a third. But with so many buy to lets and apartments kept for nookie nights by wealthy city types and TV & medida executives it has not resulted in a bigger community or a more inclusive one. At least not yet. But the Watermans serves local people from Brentford Chiswick and South Ealing pretty well. The cinema in particular has been very good for last two years, greatly improved image and audio quality and is very well patronised. Hounslow is a very different town. It is only really associated with Brentford by the nature of the unitary boroughs name. Brentford is really linked by the river towns of Isleworth and Chiswick and Southern Ealing. Demographically they are completely different and even before the ethnic influxes it was different. Hounslow has it's own facilities and serves it's own cultures. Watermans has attempted to embrace all that but never very successfully, it has though done much better with the local mix in this town. Moving it would be mad and very very wrong. Improving it though would be fantastic. Altering the main public area to eliminate the supporting columns to creat a more vesatile space and having a large half rotunda balcony galeria overhanging the river would make it one of the best venues for so many community things and attract a wider patronage. Move it to Hounslow and it will be dead in a few years. Who are these developers anyway? And just how do they get their foot in the door? |