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What Conditions are required to set up a sub-forum

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#1 ·
This issue has started a bit of debate on the Hull thread.

Just wondering what exactly the conditions for a sub-forum are. Is it:

1. Amount of posts
2. city populations,
3. number of proposals
or
4. height of proposals?


or a combination of all of them? Our case goes like this:

1. Hull is the second most popular thread in projects and construction when measured by 'amount of posts', it also scores fairly well on the views counter. We reckon a 'Hull Metro' or 'Hull and East Yorkshire' sub-forum would boost this even more.

2. Built up urban area - 320,000. Hull & East. Yorks 600,000+. Not massive, but big in UK terms, and an undoubted regional centre.

3. Lots and Lots! Off the top of our heads, we came up with:

1) St Stephens Shopping Centre
2) St Stephens Hotel
3) Paragon Station Transport Interchange
4) Hull Truck Theatre
5) Albemarle Music Centre
6) Ferensway Refurbishment
7) St Stephens Apartments
8) Spring Bank Apartments
9) Anlaby Road Flats Reclad.
10) New York Hotel Refurb.

11) Hotel, East Bank
12) The Boom Apartments, East Bank (Imminent)
13) Footbridge, East Bank (Imminent)
14) The Deep Submarium
15) Streetlife Museum
16) Clarence Flour Mill (tbc)
17) River Hull Impoundment

18) Humber Quays 1
19) Humber Quays 2
20) Freedom Quay Apartments
21) Wellington Street Refurbishment
22) Hotel (4 star) Humber Quays
23) HC Conference Centre

24) Fruit Market (numerous small developments)
25) Large Casino
26) Boutique Hotel

27) Albion Street Refurbishment
28) Albion Square
29) Bond Street Tower
30) Co-op Building Apartments
31) Kingston House (Reclad)
32) Hull History Centre
33) Queens Gardens
34) BBC Centre / Apartments

35) Burnett House
36) Whitefriargate
37) Arc

38) Hull New Town (Retail / Leisure)
39) Hull Old Town (Leisure / residential)
40) Avenues (Spring Bank / Princes / Newland)
41) West Hull regeneration (Clive Sullivan Way / Derringham / St Andrews Apartments )

42) Quay West Retail (£300M Princes Quay Expansion)
43) Hotel Quay West
44) Castle Street Improvement (Tunnel)
45) KC Stadium (Expansion, events)
46) Hull Sport (Hull City, Hull FC, Hull KR, Ice Hockey, Speedway)
47) Hull Museums (Town Docks, Ferens Art Gallery, Wilberforce, Streetlife)

48) University of Hull
49) Hull Schools (£200M plan)

50) Port of Hull
51) Hull Business

52) Central Library refurbishment (phase one completed)
53) The Institute Building (Currently being transformed into a pioneering 4* 'owner hotel')

54) Proposed works on the Guildhall
55) Mytongate upgrade
56) Office developments on the A63 corridor
57) Upgrade in rail freight from the docks
58) Possibility of Hull to York (via beverley) railway line re-opening?
59) Dock Office Row (behind hull college - planning permission granted for two areas of resi development between three dry docks

60) There is also the Newington and St Andrews Pathfinder regeneration scheme


Again, these are limited to Hulls restrictive city boundaries, if the metro area was included, the list would be over a hundred schemes long.

4. Surely this is a daft criteria to use?

Personally I'd completely support the idea of the likes of Leicester, Hull and other medium-large sized urban hubs being able to discuss things on a bigger platform,mwhilst also giving a regional focus for their surrounding areas. It is an easier way to cover more developments accross more of the country.
 
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#153 ·
Create some threads for the major developments so people can see the Action in Hull, and post Photos to get more interest.
Unless your going for the biggest single thread record;)
People cannot follow developments in one thread as looking back to find renders and info is too hard so visitors just get snippets of info on the topic of the day :eek:hno:

But yes HULL does need its Own sub forum.
 
#154 ·
Create some threads for the major developments so people can see the Action in Hull, and post Photos to get more interest.
Unless your going for the biggest single thread record;)
People cannot follow developments in one thread as looking back to find renders and info is too hard so visitors just get snippets of info on the topic of the day :eek:hno:

But yes HULL does need its Own sub forum.

Which solves the problem. :)

Hull posters have already invested time and energy into the original thread and covered real developments already in real time. It's not our fault it's so f**cking big. We're not interested in any record. We asked for a sub-forum ages ago and were told we were getting one. You want us to do it again for your convenience? Hoop and jumping through springs to mind.

Leicester, Nottingham, Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport (sorry er 'Wales') didn't require multuple threads before getting their sub-forums. I'm starting to think that the only reason we didn't is because it's Hull and SSC is institutionally placist.

Give us a sub-forum and we'll split it.
 
#155 ·
People need look no further than the constantly updated front page to see whats going on. Threads all over the place would just mess up Projects and construction and often get left behind, although if we did that then all the mods would have to is group them together then were away :banana:.

Plus theres a £100m shopping development in Beverley so there could be an East Yorkshire sub-forum.

Anyway cheers for your support Bulldozer
 
#157 ·
Hull has more posts in it than the whole of Wales, so as I've said many times - yes Hull should have it's own subforum. Come on James! ;)
Hull's thread post count is just short of the whole of the Wales Sub Forum. You deserve your own Sub Forum. Not sure how the moderators would choose to configure this? Personally I think you should just get your own - and so should Leicester and Nottingham.
Things are getting abit cluttered in the East Midlands forum too now.

I agree some of the other city's should be getting they're own subforums now.
Create some threads for the major developments so people can see the Action in Hull, and post Photos to get more interest.
Unless your going for the biggest single thread record;)
People cannot follow developments in one thread as looking back to find renders and info is too hard so visitors just get snippets of info on the topic of the day :eek:hno:

But yes HULL does need its Own sub forum.
Hull, Keep fighting for your own sub-forum.

Without doubt you are now the most busy city thread without a sub-forum.

There are other Cities which also need their own sub-forum.


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#161 ·
Well, yes maybe, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the discussion has all been about hull developments, a lot could of been off-topic 'chat'. There must be a case for a North-East one with the amount of developments going on up here, including, Newcastle, Sunderland and the Teesside area.
 
#162 ·
Well, yes maybe, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the discussion has all been about hull developments, a lot could of been off-topic 'chat'. There must be a case for a North-East one with the amount of developments going on up here, including, Newcastle, Sunderland and the Teesside area.
I think B4mmy meant a north east forum to include Hull too.

Check out the thread yourself...I think you'll find that the overwhelming majority of it has been about the massive amount of proposals/ under construction and completed developments in the city.

Personally I'd be perfectly happy to share a forum with the north east, even though Hull isn't strictly part of 'the north east' in any political sense :)
 
#165 ·
Frequently on maps of the UK Hull is included in the north east region, thats despite Newcastle and Hull being over 100 miles apart.

I'm not sure if this could be set up but have when you click on the NE sub forum you can choose the Hull, or Middlesbrough, Newcastle sub forums from a list. That would take you to the list of threads for individual developments.

Of course there is the criticism that theres not many tall buildings going up. But if you combine all the places together theres certainly more than the East Midlands or Wales.
 
#167 ·
North East would be the best current solution for Hull... a little creative license and common sense never hurt anyone.

It could form the basis of a very good, very busy subforum, and if things grow in the future Hull can always be moved out into its correct geopolitical subforum.

Personally, I don't think this is a matter to get too precious about, it's a constructive and progressive proposal that would satisfy a great many forumers.
 
#172 ·
North East would be the best current solution for Hull... a little creative license and common sense never hurt anyone.

It could form the basis of a very good, very busy subforum, and if things grow in the future Hull can always be moved out into its correct geopolitical subforum.

Personally, I don't think this is a matter to get too precious about, it's a constructive and progressive proposal that would satisfy a great many forumers.
This is the most sensible comment on the subject.
 
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