Topic ID 12
Where has this crazy idea come from? The last thing we need is a cinema. Who is planning this gradual degeneration of our lovely town? All the council's funds should be put aside for building the one thing we ALL want - a bypass. IT Analyst
Reply ID 7
A cinema for Hertford has been mooted for a number of years and has considerable support. Whilst housing developments spring up everywhere there appear to be no accompanying leisure developments (other than sports clubs). The nearest cinemas are ten miles away. A bypass was proposed during the nineties but rejected both by the people and local authorities on environmental grounds, although the issue is certainly one that should be reconsidered. As a byline, local authorities do not pay for bypasses.
Reply ID 9
I do understand where you are coming from "concerned" especially with the blissful idea of a bypass for Hertford, and agree that there is alot of the town to lose by building it up with cinemas ect. I think that the best solution would be to build a bypass and have a cinema somewhere along that.
Reply ID 10
The idea of a bypass was floated a few years back but there was an outcry on environmental grounds. Things might have been alot different if the biggest planning disaster to hit the town - ie the releif road - had never happened, and a bypass built in the first place back in the sixties.
Reply ID 11
[quote] I do understand where you are coming from "concerned" [/quote] I tell you where he/she is coming from. Take a look at the lovely cinemas in Stevenage, Harlow and on the A10 at Enfield. Fancy having a corrugated tin box like that in Hertford? Doesn't exactly go with the rest of the surroundings does it?
Reply ID 13
We definitely don't want some anonymous multiplex, but surely a small cinema in the town centre would be a good idea?
Reply ID 14
I think a cinema is a good idea.. It is nice to think of hertford as an oldy worldy town, which if course it is (and i agree that the scenic Hertford should be preserved!). But, this is 2003 not 1893 and modern society needs modern facilities...if we want to have a 'Hertfords Past in Pictures' published in 2103 that is worth reading Hertford needs to continue to develop sympathetically and enthustically and meet the requirements of the age as it always has...
Reply ID 27
I've certainly never thought of Hertford as "oldy worldy" - we're not stuck in a time warp! However, it can't compete with the new towns that surround it so has to differentiate itself. Many operators look at the cinemas in Hatfield, Harlow and Stevenage and see Hertford in their catchment area so conclude that there isn't a big enought market in the town. Similarly, they have to provide something different - something specialist.
Reply ID 872
Hertford wouldn't be Hertford with a cinema, &, as before, i find myself wondering, where wiould it go? People seem to forget that there isn't that much room in Hertford..... Expess yourself!
Reply ID 878
There is an abundance of anecdotal evidence from taxi drivers that people come into Hertford on Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights from a huge radius around Hertford. This is equally borne out by the court reports in which you will find that the majority of wrong doers do not live in Hertford. As a magnet for people looking for entertainment Hertford would therefore be a more viable option for a cinema than Harlow, Stevenage etc as more and more people come into Hertford for food and drinks etc. There must also be a similar drain out of Hertford which is benefitting Stevanage and Harlow (and Essex) by Hertford and Ware residents travelling to these places in order to watch a film. With the number of license application in process the former numbers will certainly swell. There is perhaps no room in the Town centre for a cinema but Cannons gym appears to be thriving on the outskirts and the Mead Lane site is now on hold again so perhaps developers could look there as it already has transport links and room for parking. Alternatively why not burrow underneath Gascoyne Way and construct an underground multiplex that has access and overhead parking already. Then of course there are the allotments on Folly Island and the Corn Exchange which is doing absolutely nothing. Just a thought!!
Reply ID 879
Good thoughts on the corn exhange, but i feel that it should be turned into perhaps a battle of the bands venue, plus a place for concerts. Top Notch ;D Expess yourself! I have to the point you probably wont find a topic without my name somewhere. Sorry, gone a bit over the top!