Plonk a new ground on Fernie Fields then we can all cram into the Judo club bar after and talk about how “this used to all be fields”
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Johnson & Johnson moving out of Wycombe.
Could it be mothballed and new egress /access from M40…as well as John Lewis side.
Not sure how big that site is
Shall we re-open up Hayes plan to create a sporting campus on the Booker Airfield?
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You are absolutely right. Indeed that has already happened to the away end and the Frank Adams stand. So presumably if it is still structurally sound, you can do the same thing to the terrace.
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Thats the thing, from what I’ve heard, I don’t think the terrace is structurally sound & why I believe it’ll be the first stand that’ll be rebuilt if the access was sorted!
To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised that if the access road isn’t sorted in the next 5 yrs and the stand is rebuilt, we won’t be able to use that stand
Will there be enough space after this gets built? Although I guess it could be useful for our data driven club?
The foundations beneath are approaching breach conditions of unsafe to home us. Needs ripping up and starting again. Not a quick fix. Believe it’s set to be renovated over this summer, if not this summer then next. Essential work.
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I walked through the Desborough Rec, earlier in the season, over grown and no sign of football still being played on. You could put two Stadiums on that site. Awful access though, a moated stadium would be an attraction.
Yeah, the tower block is literally falling down and sliding down the hill which is one of the reasons it was covered in scaffolding.
The tower block is coming down either controlled or uncontrolled and so building a “new” hospital on the car park to then move the services out of the tower block before it’s too late.
There’s also zero chance of an A&E because the way hospitals are run these days means small town A&E’s are redundant. You have one regional hospital with all on site expertise, surgeons, ITU, wards and all the ancillary services a function A&E requires plus a specific specialisation and (preferably) a helipad. We have 3 of those within an hour or 30 miles.
Wycombe doesn’t need an A&E based on the current system. People seem to want A&E because of convenience rather than need or understanding how many service are needed to support a functioning A&E.
Alternatively, the UK population is growing at extreme rate, has worsening health (obesity) and is ageing. We are ill-prepared for that combination. I had to drive my potentially dying friend to A&E 40 minutes away because ambulance would not arrive for 13(!) hours for possible heart attack and there’s nothing near Marlow. That is abhorrent. The very few times I ever have to rely on the state as a 29 year old they have let me down. The £15k tax I pay a year is basically thrown into thin air as far as I’m aware. No one will be there to support my age group when we’re dying.
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While everything you have said makes logical sense, the other side of the coin is that you are moving a town with a population of 25,000 - 50,000 people over to another town / hospital’s problem. With Aylesbury building homes quicker than ever and their population constantly on the raise, the infrastructure isn’t there to keep up. Doctor’s surgeries, Dentists etc isn’t there or thought about when building homes. Stoke Mandeville needs more capacity but doesn’t have anymore space, Wexham, Oxford & Reading are also trapped and they serve towns/cities that are much bigger than ours already! By making A&E’s more “regional”, you need to ensure that you have everything in place first, not just hope that it’ll sort itself out
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Are you prepared to pay significantly more tax in order to improve public services? Most of the electorate seem to want low taxes (on them at least) and high public services and will vote for whichever party promises them that. It simply can’t be done.
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Do you know the Wycombe District population ??
No, it was a guess / estimation
140,000 approx. as of 2021 census for the main urban area, 170,000+ for wider area.
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My hindsight cap is that Osborne and Cameron’s austerity was a disaster move. In the period of highest global money printing and lowest interest rates the UK was foolishly retrenching. I am now having to pay the price for the misconduct of UK governments before me. I already pay well above average in tax. The issue is that we have an ageing, sick and fat population and a low replacement rate. All of that is because of suboptimal selfish kick the can down the road decisions of the last 30-40 years.
My answer to your question. Would I pay more tax for better services? No. I’d scrap the NHS and replace it with something much fairer. Triple lock gone instantly. Ban multi-home ownership above 5 properties. Free education for UK public sector where there are shortages. I’d drop the minimum wage by 10-15% but reintroduce an inflationary rise to the personal allowance. Final or average salary pensions would be gone in the public sector and I’d use that saving to increase salaries of specialists to try and cut spend in unnecessary areas like DEI and HR Etc.
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Blimey you have been listening to Nigel a lot!
Just to pick up one of those. Scrap the NHS and replace it with something fairer. Tell me more.
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I’m a Labour supporter. I’d never ever vote for Reform.
My expertise doesn’t lie in the area of healthcare, so my opinion isn’t worth the Gasroom it’s written on. My gut feeling is some sort of half-European half-US model. Restore real terms salary catch up of hospital staff. Ditch substandard foreign doctors and favour the better trained domestic ones where we have a large surplus. Ditch final salary pensions for future public sector staff as part of the negotiations. Restrict healthcare for over 80s where the bulk of the cost lies, unless they’re paying a high cost of health insurance to the state. Admit to the country it is not feasible or achievable or cost manageable to provide significant state-funded care for over 80s. Much higher inheritance tax, as it’s the largest deterrent of social mobility.
Etc.
Ah OK. When you said with such certainty “ditch the NHS and replace with something fairer”, I assumed you had a coherent plan for that alternative. Never mind.
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What’s your choice? Pay more tax? Keep funding it until we reach oblivion? Retaining final salary pension?