HS2 - Birmingham to Manchester scrapped.

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Banbury is about 20 miles from Warwick - and so definitely isn’t in the south east!

My ERO had twelve months at Warwick Uni, not in Warwick but Coventry, and once we'd ventured past Coventry I felt some magnetic pull to the SE rather than an equal and opposite pull towards God's own country in the NW let alone the delights of Birmingham, Tipton or even Sandwell!

 

[bluenova]

That list is filtered for the South East region only although number 1 is the same number 1 as for the whole UK.
Interestingly, if it’s filtered for the North West, the Etihad north stand expansion comes in at £1.5bn so not sure where the figures are from.

The same site described it as a £340m project in August, so there must be something different going on when they talk about the 'project value'.

Etihad Stadium Extension Plans Given the Go-Ahead - Barbour ABI

Every week, we're bringing you top projects from across the UK construction industry, including the upcoming Etihad Stadium extension.

barbour-abi.com

Perhaps @jrb could cast some light on it?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

My ERO had twelve months at Warwick Uni, not in Warwick but Coventry, and once we'd ventured past Coventry I felt some magnetic pull to the SE rather than an equal and opposite pull towards God's own country in the NW let alone the delights of Birmingham, Tipton or even Sandwell!

Warwick Uni might be in Cov but the students tend to live in Leamington and Kenilworth, or at least the posh ones do!

I accept the SE has to start somewhere, but if you were using the M40 as the barometer fwiw I’d say Thame. I’d say Bicester was in the Midlands, albeit on the southern edge. Think the SE starts at the top of the A34 personally.

 

[Corky]

The whole of Oxfordshire is the the South East on the border with 3 other regions. They have to draw the line somewhere. Even though the regions were scrapped as Government Offices after the 2010 election as the Torys saw them as a Labour thing, they still went back to regional groupings for grant funding and data publications a few years later.

Banbury is actually right on the border with the East Midlands/Northants under a mile away, the west midlands about 2 miles away.

 

[Jimmieblue]

Reprendre le contrôle?

That sounds like a start

 

[Jimmieblue]

The French have the luxury of building most of their infrastructure upon open fields, and I understand there's nothing like the hullabaloo in French planning if the French Govt want their way!

Exactly, what’s the matter with the Civil Service, the Ministers and the people who are supposed to get things done, the people we give the power to every 4/5 years.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Warwick Uni might be in Cov but the students tend to live in Leamington and Kenilworth, or at least the posh ones do!

I accept the SE has to start somewhere, but if you were using the M40 as the barometer fwiw I’d say Thame. I’d say Bicester was in the Midlands, albeit on the southern edge. Think the SE starts at the top of the A34 personally.

As I recall, the A34 starts somewhere in Salford, near Quay Street, and ends up in Winchester.

Depending on which way you're travelling of course.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Banbury is about 20 miles from Warwick - and so definitely isn’t in the south east!

Banbury's arguable, perhaps (although twenty miles is actually quite a lot in the smallish country that is England). But the most important town in Oxfordshire is Oxford. And I'm pretty sure that most of its inhabitants (excluding students, of course, who come from all over) don't see themselves as living in the Midlands. So wherever they are, it's not there.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Having a couple of nights in Warwick midweek for the horse racing....I'll see if it feels north/midlands/south etc and give an on the spot update.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Exactly, what’s the matter with the Civil Service, the Ministers and the people who are supposed to get things done, the people we give the power to every 4/5 years.

They don't do the same job as the French where they have specialist finishing schools for civil servants.

The English equivalent hire consultants and spaff money up the wall rather than develop specialist knowledge and skills and manage projects efficiently.