Golden Egg row reaches boiling point

“im fed up of people using the word egg. i have suffered from ridicule for years about eggs....how does trev like his eggs....what time did trev wake up....did i have trevs egg on my face etc etc. it turned me into an alcoholic and JSav fan. now i have kids of my own im worried that they will turn out like me. please no more eggs
Mr Alister Macintosh”

“I'd love to see Cllrs Durrant and Hilton come to real blows. That one would be over in the first round - the winner by knockout Nick Durrant!”

“Referring again to Paul James' remarks about it being a few years before getting on site and a few years to build, I wonder where the figures came from that appeared in an article in The Citizen dated Monday 23rd January 2012, a mere eight or so months ago, quote:-" And it will now be full speed ahead with early work expected to start on the scheme in 2014 with the new look King's Quarter due to open for business in December 2015". Only three years to go before we can all be shopping and eating in those wonderful shops and restaurants!

Referring to the same article, I don't know who wrote it, possibly the Editor, but I objected to the words " this dump of a city". This city is not a dump, it contains many historic buildings, far more than many other towns and cities and, if the writer of the article feels that it is a dump then why don't they move somewhere else that they don't consider to be a dump. There will always be problems with anywhere you live, from London to York, Cardiff, Exeter and Plymouth, all have their bad parts as well as their good parts so where could anyone go without thinking they are living in a dump? I think Citizen columnists should keep remarks like that to themselves, or at least post them on the message boards as their own thoughts and not those of the local newspaper. In ten years time I wonder if the same columnist will be saying that Gloucester is a ghost town and that the high end retail shops and restaurants that are planned have been a huge disappointment and haven't brought in the thousands of extra shoppers that they were supposed to.”

“Why demolish the Golden Egg? I doubt we'll even notice it once soulless new retail units surround it and what once was an attractive open space amenity is lost to us forever.”

“Maybe Mr. Hilton is feeling a bit touchy at the moment with his family problems and the Lib Dems poll ratings, hence the childish behaviour.”

“Interesting stuff.I've always thought of "a few" being at least 3,so a few years before they are on site - 2015,plus a few years to build it - 2018.
I thought this whole scheme was supposed to be up and running in a couple of years.
Surely it couldn't be that we have been misled ?”

“The restaurant in question could be a beautiful building - all it needs is a little (well a lot) of tender love and care.”

“Nice to see the egg reference in the headline, poached from a National newspaper perhaps!. Sounds like this Council meeting was a bit of a yolk even though they've fried to keep it civil. What else can we eggspect about the King's Quarter development, lots of money shelled out but scrambled messages about when it will be finished. Sorry, can't keep the egg references up any longer but seriously, depending on which article you read, the development was going to be opening by 2015 or thereabouts so I wonder what timescale Paul James had in mind with his quote "I will not be a hostage to fortune and give a time scale," said Mr James. "It will be a few years before they are on site and a few years to build it." I'm sure I read that work was going to start in 2013 not "a few years" so perhaps we shouldn't get too "excited" about this development just yet.

Just a Google search for King's Quarter Gloucester brings up some old reports and articles, one on a construction magazine website in 2008 talks of shops and hundreds of flats being built in the city centre by 2012 - missed that date then!”

“Just bring in the site clearance contractors for David Wilson Homes who cut down the 4 ancient trees at Kennel Lane, Brockworth WITHOUT permission so they could build the new houses there more quickly.”

“Hardly a political battle over the Golden Egg - more our revered leaders showing the stuff they're really made of......”