Universal Great Britain - Speculation & Rumors

[Scott W.]

Another property bought:

Disney should buy up one of the last homes. Put a grumpy old man in there who refuses to be moved out of his home. Then on opening day of USGB, have the house release thousands of balloons.

 

[tommyhawkins]

I kinda lost track, but are we down to just 4 houses left on Manor Rd not sold?

Is that specifically the 17 properties they said all need to be sold before they'll develop the expansion, because people have been talking about other houses that don't really impact anything? Having said that developing or not, its kinda moot since the new manor road is pushed way further south

 

[Alicia]

Is that specifically the 17 properties they said all need to be sold before they'll develop the expansion, because people have been talking about other houses that don't really impact anything? Having said that developing or not, its kinda moot since the new manor road is pushed way further south

Yes, I was under the impression it’s 4 left of of those. (But I am not sure as I haven’t been following recent sales too closely so may have counted the last one twice.)

 

[xtpower]

Saw this the other day:
I'm not up on the big Imagineers/Creatives but seems he's a new Theme Park guy so is there a high chance we get him part of UGB? Very exciting if we do.

 

[EllieB]

They were certainly advertising for a senior creative lead for the UK project a little while ago, so it would seem logical that could be the job he's got.

 

[masekwm]

I am talking about the 17 on the road, the ugly cottages all the way down to Askern House with the moat in the garden - as those have have their own analysis in the application

I've seen no further updates to the one I posted above, here

There is a new registration for this site today, but this was simply due to the haulage company buying the buildings on the site they occupy. To protect a pending: Purchase. In favour of: G MOORE HAULAGE LIMITED

 

[masekwm]

I don’t know why Universal hasn’t built a direct route back onto the A421 to go East. That for me would have covered all options.

Hopefully I’m wrong haha.

It was said at the Stewartby meeting that this was included in the pack, I've not looked into this in detail.

 

[xtpower]

With impeccable timing @ProjectUniversal has unearthed another Manor Road sale.



Go to Project Universal | Bedford for all the details.

 

[yepthatguy]

It was said at the Stewartby meeting that this was included in the pack, I've not looked into this in detail.

To be fair I actually overlooked a detail. If someone wanted to get to the A1 Black Cat they could turn right to Marsh Leys as I initially mentioned, but could also go left instead but not joining the A421 towards the M1, instead take the ‘old’ A421 road down to the Marston Moretaine services junction then join the A421 going back on yourself East.

It may be this was universals plan to send people via local routes to disperse the traffic, but I haven’t found any clear wording either.

 

[masekwm]

With impeccable timing @ProjectUniversal has unearthed another Manor Road sale.

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Go to Project Universal | Bedford for all the details.

Number 5 has been boarded up for a couple of months, it is the only one of the houses on that next block that show any sign of being sold. We know that another has since had it's sale agreed but I won't speculate on which that is.