Siemens pushes ahead with £80m wind farm factory for Hull

“I am not trying to put a negative spin on this story, just a realistic one, if people wish to believe all the workforce will be local you need yours heads testing, local jobs for local people, thats what I want, but it will not happen.”

“Killercrbn: on the contrary the first thing operational on the site will be a training academy to address that exact issue - potentially a full 18 months before the factory is even operational.”

“How anyone can find a negative spin on such a massive global company like Siemens investing in the City is beyond me.
If these people spent more time and energy been positive about this City then just maybe we will have a bright future.”

“Hull clearly doesn't have ' hundreds of unemployed people skilled in the manufacturing of wind turbines' - but the city does still have (believe it or not) a strong manufacturing base with associated engineering skills - 17% of the workforce compared to just over 10% nationally.

The strong links with the University, who have been heavily involved in the project, together with training of youngsters holds out a bright future for the city.

I know its difficult to be positive for some people in this city.”

“Sorry Enterprise Zones can be set up within Local Enterprise Partnerships. They've even over complicated that!”

“Obviously SPBlakeney isn't too familiar with what councils can and can't spend their money on.”

“"LEP = Local Enterprise Partnership more commonly known as Enterprise zones"

I'm sorry to be pedantic, but Local Enterprise Partnerships and Enterprise Zones are not the same.”

“good news i supose but what about the people who are been made redundant like me. yes its great for the city but i know its the way forward but me and a few others will be out of work early next year so im also a bit peed of with it”

“@ KiminHull Other way round. I think it highly unlikely the Council/Labour group would have stumped up the cash unless the chance existed Siemens might be interested.Given the fight to get development permission from that lot for anything of value (other than the tarmac access for councillors to their troughs in the Guildhall) its amazing Siemens even tried.Plus thered be hell of a lot more cash to invest if the council would quit its obsession with owning a bl**dy stadium and instead sell it and spend on city infrastructure, housing, training and jobs.”

“LEP = Local Enterprise Partnership more commonly known as Enterprise zones. Set up by the government specifically to attract new business by offering reduced business rates and perhaps more significantly to simplify the planning process. With that in mind god only knows how long it would take the muppets at the guildhall to grant permission if they think its going to take 4 months.As for waterfront public right of way. Simple do like they've done on the South bank. Pedestrians give way to traffic. Pretty much how it works everywhere else!”