| Just being nosey 22:28 - Mar 23 with 9054 views | Frog |
Does anyone know who the huge warehouse being built off KIngsway (I think it is, or Queensway) is for? | | | |  |
| Just being nosey on 23:12 - Mar 23 with 5357 views | mr_fri_night |
I heard it is Dascher moving from Chichester Street | | | |
| Just being nosey on 23:19 - Mar 23 with 5340 views | batfink |
I heard it was yodel, a few weeks ago there was a report in the observer that two units were being built speculatively though. | | | |
| Just being nosey on 23:34 - Mar 23 with 5317 views | D_Alien |
A couple of weeks ago there were reports that the Yodel depot in Shaw was being scaled down and some staff made redundant. It didn't mention they were relocating to Kingsway - which if they did would allow easier access to the motorway network.
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| Just being nosey on 06:53 - Mar 24 with 5186 views | batfink |
Also heard the other site up a little from JD and on opposite side is more housing | | | |
| Just being nosey on 09:42 - Apr 1 with 4733 views | Toffeemanc |
Been told by someone who works for Dachser that the current unit being built isn't for Dachser, although they have purchased land on the Kingsway site around 12-18 months ago which they will be building on and moving to in the future.
The rumour for the new unit being built is that it is for a company called C R Laurence.
I'm told they already have their UK head office on the site and the new building is going to be for their new UK warehouse. Given the size of the building it should bring in a few jobs locally if true. | |
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| Just being nosey on 10:19 - Apr 1 with 4661 views | judd |
The new facility is being built in order to house a local football club's library of CCJ documents.
They have already applied for planning permission for an extension. | |
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| Just being nosey on 10:31 - Apr 1 with 4641 views | SuddenLad |
Have they sold the car park yet ? | |
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| Just being nosey on 10:38 - Apr 1 with 4624 views | judd |
Yes, to a concert promoter/long distance runner. | |
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| Just being nosey on 11:01 - Apr 1 with 4580 views | deezel |
I assume the extension is for a medical centre to treat injured employees? | | | |
| Just being nosey on 11:04 - Apr 1 with 4571 views | SuddenLad |
It's a development centre for 'special human beings'. | |
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| Just being nosey on 11:07 - Apr 1 with 4565 views | deezel |
They arrive "special"....what we do with them after is the problem | | | |
| Just being nosey on 11:15 - Apr 1 with 4548 views | D_Alien |
Maybe grow your own? | |
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| Just being nosey on 11:17 - Apr 1 with 4538 views | judd |
Just goalkeepers. | |
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| Just being nosey on 12:34 - Apr 1 with 4427 views | Toffeemanc |
No chance, it's not going to be big enough! | |
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| Just being nosey on 12:53 - Apr 1 with 4377 views | DomDale |
I wonder how many jobs have been created in the Borough in the past 10 years that don't involve working in warehouses at £7 p/h .
I'd like to see more skilled, higher paid, jobs created in the town.
We're blessed with fantastic transport connections. Even if there's a lack of skills in OL 11 - 15 we're still easy to get to, it's cheap to live here too.. | |
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| Just being nosey on 14:09 - Apr 1 with 4286 views | 49thseason |
When Kingsway was first mooted, I was told categorically that it would not simply be given over to warehousing and that manufacturing and high-tech companies would be moving in.
Needless to say, when they started to advertise the fact that the best reason for bringing new businesses to Rochdale was the low wages (the only USP they could think of I imagine), hey presto, more warehouses. It's what happens when you let bureaucrats who have never had a proper job get involved in business. | | | |
| Just being nosey on 14:12 - Apr 1 with 4279 views | dingdangblue |
More likely to borrow someone else's. | |
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| Just being nosey on 14:52 - Apr 1 with 4233 views | SuddenLad |
There were two hotel chains who were keen to be involved when the plans were initially mooted, but they withdrew long before it came to fruition whe the economic situation nose-dived. | |
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| Just being nosey on 15:55 - Apr 1 with 4165 views | mingthemerciless |
I couldn't agree more. The lack of higher profile, reasonably well paid, skilled jobs is holding back any real improvement in the Rochdale area. It's a vicious circle. Not many young people are being trained in the area for these sort of jobs so those sort companies don't come.
I remember reading a few years ago that in 1960 in the greater Rochdale area ( Milnrow, little borough, Heywood, Castleton etc ) there were over 20,000 people involved in the wider Engineering trades. Sheet metal work, Foundry Work, Spring making, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering etc. When they did the survey again about 8 years ago it was less than 3,000.
When I think of all the large companies that were involved in machinery building when I first started out as an apprentice in 1965 I can only think of Farrel Bridge in Castleton and Holroyds in Milnrow that still exist. | | | |
| Just being nosey on 17:04 - Apr 1 with 4092 views | TalkingSutty |
Now there's a shortage of skilled engineers. Anybody remember the training school at Robinsons? Happy days. | | | |
| Just being nosey on 18:15 - Apr 1 with 4028 views | olympicdale |
I heard today at work that its Yodel moving next door to JD. | |
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| Just being nosey on 18:17 - Apr 1 with 4020 views | Frog |
Thanks for all you replies, even yours Judd!
I was just asking for selfish reasons, I sell industrial cleaning machines, sweepers & scrubber driers etc. and always looking for leads! | | | |
| Just being nosey on 19:06 - Apr 1 with 3958 views | judd |
Do they not run off batteries? | |
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| Just being nosey on 19:38 - Apr 1 with 3908 views | flyerdale |
Farrels German owned and holroyds Chinese owned. | | | |
| Just being nosey on 20:30 - Apr 1 with 3843 views | Frog |
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