Outrage as stunning My City My Shirt mural is painted over

[MacAdder]

As I said earlier, the car park it looks onto is also a development site and in time a building will occur there masking any mural, so long term it's probably not viable anyway, without buying the whole car park.

The building site across from the old white Hart on James Street has been derelict since the 70's and the site in question has been like that for donkey's years too so I wouldn't hold my breath on development any time soon.

[JamesWales]

The building site across from the old white Hart on James Street has been derelict since the 70's and the site in question has been like that for donkey's years too so I wouldn't hold my breath on development any time soon.

True, but both of those sites are now being talked about more frequently atm..

[poc]

True, but both of those sites are now being talked about more frequently atm..

for what sort of development ? the old merthyr house site has been waiting a long long time

[poc]

for what sort of development ? the old merthyr house site has been waiting a long long time

would you know regarding this site please ?

[WJ99mobile]

True, but both of those sites are now being talked about more frequently atm..

I would seriously doubt that either site will be developed any time soon

[poc]

True, but both of those sites are now being talked about more frequently atm..

in what way ?

[JamesWales]

in what way ?

I'm not going to go into details, but both are development sites with owners who want to maximise their sites.

My main point though was just to add to a previous post that talked about the realistic long term cost of keeping the mural ad infinitum, which is that in addition to the cost of leasing the space you would have to pay the developer of the adjacent land to never develop the site also, as any development would cover up the mural.

I'm in favour of the mural anyway, and in favour of street art. I've commissioned a lot of it, I'd like to see far more of it, I was just adding a bit of Real Politik to it all.

[poc]

I'm not going to go into details, but both are development sites with owners who want to maximise their sites.

My main point though was just to add to a previous post that talked about the realistic long term cost of keeping the mural ad infinitum, which is that in addition to the cost of leasing the space you would have to pay the developer of the adjacent land to never develop the site also, as any development would cover up the mural.

I'm in favour of the mural anyway, and in favour of street art. I've commissioned a lot of it, I'd like to see far more of it, I was just adding a bit of Real Politik to it all.

the other site you mentioned has been like that a long time i cant see anything being developed there soon , must be a problem maybe with planning or groundwork its interesting why its been left this long ?