Bristol Ice Rink to Close.

LcLive · 08-01-12, 08:52 PM

Unfortunately plans are in place to knock down the old ice rink in Bristol to replace the property with student flats :/

Not sure if many people are fussed by this but it is a VERY good rink.. For those who enjoy ice skating, ice karting, dancing on ice

.. It's a real shame...

Petition to keep open

BBC News Article

arcticfox · 08-01-12, 10:53 PM

do you use it often?

LcLive · 08-01-12, 11:12 PM

Not overly often a given.. But my entire family combined would use it once each fortnight?

**MJ10** · 09-01-12, 06:15 AM

Oh that's sad. What they doing with the Gig venue? Knocking that down too I guess. Used to go there a lot when I was in 6th form! My mates used to gig there.

(will sign at work, though there'll be no way of stopping it)

**ryan1087** · 09-01-12, 08:02 AM

Probably doesn't benefit the community as much as student flats would, that would generate income for the area.

**xploit** · 09-01-12, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MJ10

Oh that's sad. What they doing with the Gig venue? Knocking that down too I guess.

No, the BBC News site says...

Quote:

The site's owner, the Unite group, which builds student accommodation, said the O2 Academy music venue would not be affected but the ice rink would.

**MJ10** · 09-01-12, 08:08 AM

Oh well. Still a shame though. I know the flats would bring more income, but the IceRink was always a great birthday party when you're young!

(Since when was it the O2 academy? I remember it being the Carling Academy!)

sgll · 09-01-12, 10:12 AM

yeh the academy is staying put and they just putting flats on top i guess. i will go down and have a word with management though as i know the folk who run the academy. use to clean that building at one stage lol. i never thought the rink got used much thus why they redeveloping it. i been bristol over half my life and not once been to ice rink lol. mj its been O2 academy for few years now. it was carling when i use to do cleaning there

bmh16 · 09-01-12, 10:36 AM

Bloody unite, do they need more halls in Bristol?! They own enough plus they are crap! Shame to see this go, really is! Luckily the academy is staying though!

Ilikefree · 09-01-12, 04:01 PM

MJ the academy venues were branded as Carling until a couple years ago when their branding rights expired. O2 then bought them, so there's O2 Academies in glasgow, london, bristol, birmingham, etc etc

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sgll iBook Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brizzle Posts: 2,689	yeh the academy is staying put and they just putting flats on top i guess. i will go down and have a word with management though as i know the folk who run the academy. use to clean that building at one stage lol. i never thought the rink got used much thus why they redeveloping it. i been bristol over half my life and not once been to ice rink lol. mj its been O2 academy for few years now. it was carling when i use to do cleaning there Last edited by sgll; 09-01-12 at 10:13 AM..

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