| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Glisening Water Restaurant -Closed - Ferry Quays | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 09/01/13 12:05:00 |
| Can't agree, the fact that businesses had to be lured to the area in the first place shows how the location was never likely to be economically viable for commercial purposes in the long-term. Can't expect management companies to lower rents to such a low level to compensate for insufficient footfall, instead of considering alternative uses to provide long-term security. Don't quite get your point about the boat moorings, well okay I get the basic point of sometimes a visitor mooring will be empty whereas a permanent one wouldn't be, but a visitor mooring could be occupied by a broad variety of craft at different times, and when it is occupied the view from people's flats would be the same. Perhaps what you're saying is that the visitor moorings aren't heavily used and thus people have got used to having an unobstructed view and don't want that to change. Again, from a commercial perspective you can't expect management companies to just sit back and let moorings remain vacant if they could be receiving revenue from permanent occupation of those moorings. I'd say anyone who invested their life savings was rather naive, however good their intentions. |