[Closed] What does Todmodern need?

Todmorden?

It needs a bike park so that the Town's prestigious international bike mag can test bikes close to the pie shop!

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A Bulldozer.

Bombing?

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[i]but what does Tod need to fill those buildings? [/i] eh the country to come out of this recession.

Damming at Walsden,Cornholme and Callis Mill

Napalm?

Women who look like women 😀

People/companies who have been appointed to do "masterplanning of Todmodern" to actually know its proper name?

People who have never been to stop making snidey comments about it?

It doesn't need new buildings or anything doing to the market area. It does need the building, and the surrounding area, that used to be Kwick-Save sorted.

LESS RAIN!!!!!

I agree with Kelvin, the old cinema needs sorting. Tod's great otherwise, has a fantastic pool and park.

😆 Beaten to it. New influx of different genes?

Seriously. IT DOESNT NEED NEW AND TRENDY FLATS THOUGH.

Huddersfield- St Georges Square is having a big makeover. WTF, what was wrong with it before?!!! The blurb says new and exciting etc. All they have done is removed all the cobbles (circa 10yrs ago) and furniture- again same age and repositioned alot of new stone kerbs over the 0.5sq mile space. Why?!!!!

I am a regular visitor to Todmorden, and you are right Davey, I was a little hasty with my comment.

2 bulldozers would be more suited to the task 😛

Sensible shoe shop and a dungaree wharehouse?

Seems to me it needs more employers so people already living there can earn good money and attract others to move into the area. Not sure how throwing money at rearranging a perfectly good market and sqaure area are going to offer this!

IanMunro - Member

Sensible shoe shop and a dungaree wharehouse?

They're all in Hebden Bridge!

It needs a bike park so that the Town's prestigious international bike mag can test bikes close to the pie shop!

There is one about 6 mile's away 🙂

And a cafe shop about 2 min ride away from the park.

a fantastic pool

That's going to be closed for the whole of April as it's broken.

http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/Todmorden-Sports-Centre-closes-for.5117888.jp

Thankfully seems to be open for Easter Holidays. Amazed they thought that through!

IanMunro - Member

Sensible shoe shop and a dungaree wharehouse?

😀

Needs a new owner for the cafe just up Halifax road - the current owner is a miserable bugger...

brant - Member

a fantastic pool

That's going to be closed for the whole of April as it's broken.

http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/Todmorden-Sports-Centre-closes-for.5117888.jp

Thankfully seems to be open for Easter Holidays. Amazed they thought that through!

oh cock!

You would make a fortune if you opened a Banjo shop. 😛

Moving into Yorkshire?

"but what does Tod need to fill those buildings? "

I know this might be a bit radical but why not ask the local people what they want?

Anyhow I've passed through that neck of the woods before, and I'd say it needs more witch craft shops, and dark dingy real ale pubs.

Moving into Yorkshire?

Half of it already is in Yorkshire

Another hairdressers i dont thinj we have enough.

"Tod modern" was what the Partner here is calling the scheme

Some sensible ideas like

1) Enterprise centre
2) Cinema (would an art house cinema work, where's the next nearest cinema?
3) Combination of the above like this http://www.galericaernarfon.com/eng/centre.aspx
3) Some kind of bouldering wall
4) Any other form of shops although there are some empty ones already in the town

Can't see an arthouse cinema competing with Hebden Bridge cinema just a handful of miles down the road.

[i]You would make a fortune if you opened a Banjo shop.[/i]

I almost fell off my chair with that gem 😆

How about erect (no pun) sign/gateway brightly lit with 'Lesbionia ahead'[i]you are about to enter heaven[/i]

Seeing as the Rochdale canal passes right through the town, and there is a significant patch of now empty land by the side of the canal, opposite the AmDram theatre and next to the new NHS building, you could construct a marina. There are alot of folk who use the canal to travel and live on in that area of Calderdale. More tourist facilities could then be placed around the marina. This would then offer something that surronding towns don't aready have, bring in more tourism and bring money into the area.

Kebab shop, gambling palace place full of fruit machines, betting shop, needle exchange/VD clinic, job centre, Pound store, yacht chandlers, contemporary dance space, English school, IKEA, World Of Leather, dirty books/mags/vids shop, hedgehog rescue centre, museum of Philately, a shop/museum dedicated exclusively to the popular '80s fold-up elctronic game, 'Donkey Kong', a Bangladeshi grocers, a Kurdish community/resource centre, a public baths, Radio Rentals, Masonic temple, Chamber of Commerce, and a Wetherspoons.

And a travel-agents.

Re : Cinema : For **** sake gymaint, do some basic research!

This redevelopment seems doomed from the start, or is it just me?

Marina is a very good idea.

Some superb suggestions, all in jest, I love it.

Must admit the Banjo shop one made me laugh
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Swingers club, massage parlour, kebab shop on every street... Hang on that's Rochdale..

It could do with a good gym the only 1 in tod is at the sports center and is tiny,get 15 people in there and you cant move.a climbing wall would be great too.

The Queens has gym next to the station 🙂

Think you will find that shut down about 4 months ago as i had to start using the sports center again.

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An 'Enterprise Centre'. Oh god, that is the sign that the town you live in has failed and someone had an emtpy building they genuinely couldn't think of anything to put in it...

Bouldering Wall? Some awesome natural bouldering all around Tod. Why go fake?

Hora - I'll take you out in Hebden sometime. You seem to be under the impression its full of 'internet' style girls. A few hours in Nelsons Wine Bar will soon put that dream outta your head (I know because I was once like you before I was woken up to the reality).

I agree with Dave's comments (accept there ARE lots of nice young out of reach ladies in Hebden).

What does Todmodern need?

A company local enough to be able to spell the name properly? 😉

A montain bike magazine

Chipps as Mayor
SFB as chief decision maker as to whether women folk could move in
Rudeboy as town planner

A [b]bigger[/b] Job centre? Lets face it there not much to do round there for most residents.

I think that a climbing wall is a great idea.

A Decent bikeshop (or how about getting Blazing Saddles to move to somewhere with some parking)

I thought there was a shortage of decent housing in (short) walking distance of the train station.

p.s. I'd rather live in Tod than [s]Toy-town[/s] Hebden, and I have lived in Hebden (and very nearly did live in Tod).

[i]"Tod modern" was what the Partner here is calling the scheme[/i]

sweet baby jesus and the orphans. That's not entirely promising, is it?
Why not call it 'Operation **** up a decent town in the name of progress'?

AndyP sweet Jesus of Nazareth why not just call it [i]Operation Turd-polish [/i]? 8)

Rudeboy as town planner

Yes!

I'll get the place buzzing, no problem.

A nice municiple building, is what a place like that needs...

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I'm not playing games, you know.

Climbing wall seems like the best suggestion - I think they actually complement areas which have good outside bouldering / climbing. The Beacon climbing wall here in Snowdonia is always incredibly busy and, just to state the obvious, there is some of the UK's best outdoor climbing and bouldering here 🙂

Funnily watching Channel 5's Hitlers secret Bunkers.....Germania anyone?

hah just seen this thread, everything listed has been tried at least once if not more.

climbing wall, Check (outdoor centre up in the old Lumbutts Mill)
cinema, check, (failed & turned into Kwik Save)
snazzy company trying to rebrand it, check (I could name 20)
marina plans, check (see behind the new NHS centre)

what it needs is to stop trying to be some where else and develop its own identity. it also needs to stop faffing with stuff. the Ormerod building (old, old NHS building) has been closed for the last 20 years or more, probably closer to 25, its a well good building right in the centre of town and its boarded up. nice advert for the town. what has the old (mid?) NHS centre turned into or is that still walled off, again another good advert... welcome to Tod, home of derelict building right in your face.

it should also push for a Halifax phone number (there is no HX 81 prefix so that's dead easy) and a Halifax post code so that people stop confusing it as some where in Lancashire.

last time i was back there they had got some massive rocks and carved the towns name on them... woop, that's made a difference hasn't it? why didn't they spend that cash helping my dad keep the Scouts open so kids could do interesting stuff like shoot guns, set fires (no snide comments about them already doing that, i'm trying to help), no they thought some bits of rock were a better investment. Tod was well known as the home of a Buddhist centre but again, the town didn't help keep them, they put up some metal fish on the side of a former mill down the side of the canal. I also hear it won Britain in bloom but when I was there it was littered with rubbish, clearly who ever organised it was only interested in doing it for judging day.

how about halving all the rent for the indoor and outdoor market so traders are more likely to come and stay, meaning shoppers are more likely to use it making it look busy. how about cleaning up tip side so it doesn't live up to its name, again bang in the centre of the town.

Could create a learning and workshop excellent centre for gender studies and equality.
Oh hang on, that would be too close to another already established centre 8)

An MTB uplift!

Save all that pesky pedaling 🙁

The Todmorden Regeneration Project unveils plans for building more affordable housing:

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It seems a bit odd that a regeneration/masterplanning scheme is reduced to asking on a mtb web forum as to what to do.
If it was me I'd spend a couple of weeks in the town looking to see what is there, how it works and then finding out what might be missing and could be useful, and maybe deciding that what it really needs isn't a pigeon consultant.

what it needs is not something that only appeals to a very small majority of its 11+ thousand inhabitants

oh and ad for the uplift... i'm sure some of the Hebden buses will take bikes on their specially built carriers.

Bringing back in line with the UK's timezone, everyone I know from Tod seems to run on "TodTime" which appears to be either in front of or behind the normal timezone without any apparent reason.

Whatsit seems to have a point: an early post listing businesses in Tod had Radio Rentals down. What! I thought they went south twenty years ago.

you spelt Todmodern wrong for a start !.... its spelt 'Todmorden' !!! or id you find the headstone on Rochdale road you pronounce it 'Tod mor den'..

my home town and is the best for hill climbs and the best decents for mountain biking (yeah).
yep we could do with a bike park with some real jumps.... and also some board walk stuff up in the park woods ! just a few not totaly swamp it.
and ive always said we shud have a bouldering wall somewhere in our town (the old doctors on Burnley rd perhaps.
a cinema !!!!!! please... or an 'ice- rink' or 'bowling alley' !

a cinema !!!!!! please... or an 'ice- rink' or 'bowling alley' !

Everybody to stop Slagging it off!
And a Cinema at the old kwick save.

i've never been there but everyone on here makes it sound well worth a visit - given that Royton Vasey is fictional.