Re: Scheme
There's a lot of local talk about that. Why are they moving so many civil servants just a few miles from low rent, easily accessible, park/campus-like place with lots of car-parking and excellent public transport links that was only redeveloped about 15 years ago to a prestige, city centre, high-rent new build with little to no parking facilities?
The vast majority of the staff are moving from the Longbenton DSS complex, which is quite modern and in pleasant surroundings. The rest are being moved some distance from a 1960's Washington office desperately in need of demolishing, true, but they are being moved to somewhere that is going to add at least an hour onto the daily commute for many.
Newcastle is in the process of bringing in a low pollution, "clean air" zone too. So why move 1000's of jobs from out of town to the citys new clean air zone? By keeping them spread out a bit, you reduce the pollution. Transport isn't the only cause. The "support" for those 1000;s of extra people, extra transport into the city, more sandwich shops and all the other stuff that goes with people tightly bound into small areas.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
