If the report in the local press about the inability of Swansea Council to recoup anything from a £2 million revamp of the Patti pavilion achieves anything then it is probably as confirmation that the politicians running the city don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
Blustering Chris Holley, who is no stranger to schemes designed on the back of an envelope, thinks that it’s something to do with the recession whilst parliamentary hopeful Peter May is of the view that not providing the building ear-marked as possible as a restaurant with sufficient toilets is due to ‘flexible design considerations’.
Meanwhile, anyone with a smattering of business ability will tell you that the location is poor for a quality development with little possibility of building up a local clientele from HMO land – especially with competing venues in nearby King Edwards Road and St Helens. In addition, the rent is so commercially unattractive as to be laughable.
In short, the ‘restoration’ of the Patti has sadly become another one of those public sector pet-projects based more upon the premise of ‘if you build it, they will come’ mentality than actual market research and then doomed by a finished design that represents no more than a victory for town and county planning over commonsense.
Sadly it is a situation with plenty of expensive precedents and part of a trend set to continue whilst gullible idiots remain at the helm at Calamity Hall and their piss-poor performance remains un-scrutinised by an opposition obsessed with its own status.
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