pwurple wrote: » I was just wondering what basis you were pontificating, and if you were just having a dig at someone for going about their normal business. Sure, it's not impossible at all if you are not working, or have no commute and have the time to do it, or are living in the 1950's. Here's a fairly typical set up for working parents these days. You're out of the house at 6:30am to do your drops and commute, work all day, home around 7pm, have creche or childminder drop offs and pick up, have to sort dinner for the whole family, check homework, and maybe talk to your own kids. Put them to bed, read the stories. And then generally can't leave the house when the kids are in bed. You do a "big shop" once a week, and have to be fairly organised to manage to get enough food to cover breakfast, lunch, dinner, fruit for 7 days for 4, 5 or 6+ people. But you think nipping to the shops multiple times a week to haul back the 30 apples and bananas the blighters go through, gallon or so of milk and multiple loafs of bread is easy peasy. Maybe pay a babysitter is it? I hear what you're saying about transport, and here's what we do. Dry food and basic groceries (milk, loo roll etc) is delivered once a week to our house, evening time, no rush hour pressure. Then we do a fresh food trip to the butchers, small shops etc on the weekend... bus, on foot, cycle, whatever.
Padraig Mor wrote: » New update from the centre this morning: "it may be summer 2020 before the centre is rebuilt and ready to open".
TheDriver wrote: » By sounds of the reports, you wouldn't even walk on the floor of level 2 so it's a very uncertain situation
TheChizler wrote: » Surprised at that. The car park is essentially a different structure to the original part. I would have thought that once it was made safe the shops could reopen. I wonder is it insurance reasons. The pharmacy and nail bar on the street with no connection to the rest of the centre opened the day after the fire but they were told to shut because they were technically part of the same property and the public couldn't be let in because insurance.
Acosta wrote: » ''Mr Love revealed that the plan is to rebuild the car park as it was before the fire.'' Should they not use it as an opportunity to fix what has to be one of the most badly designed car parks in the country?
road_high wrote: » Whole thing sounds like overkill but I’ve not seen the damage firsthand
PreCocious wrote: » I'm not an engineer, or don't know anything on the subject and I too haven't seen the damage firsthand, but, I think you could be right.
beer enigma wrote: » The concern is that even though the car park is a seperate structure, it's in danger of collapse and it if does it could cause untold damage to the shopping centre. For that reason insurers won't allow the centre to open.
Cork Trucker wrote: » The centre will be lucky to have tenants left at this stage, i wouldn't be surprised if there was a get out clause in contracts for a situation of long term closure like this. Douglas loss could be the gain of other places as a result of this.
Darc19 wrote: » There would be a get out clause for such an event and standard retail insurance would cover loss of trade and wages for a period of up to six months and in some cases 12 months.
Dermo123 wrote: » Well Fire Engines can't get in there. Blackpool multistory they can.
Cork Trucker wrote: » I was laughed out of it over saying this on here recently in connection with a similar post i put up on twitter.
TheChizler wrote: » That makes sense that they would wait until i's safe, for the areas near the fire, but they're not planning on reopening until the rebuild is complete according to that last announcement.
TheDriver wrote: » What fire engine is ever going to drive in there? I have that vision of Steve mcQueen in towering Inferno when they look up and see the skyscraper on fire.
