The BBC are off to Salford

[BBMmk2]

That's rather sharp/es?

[teamsaint]

if anyone doesn't want to move to Manchester, I dare say there will plenty of people with the ability to fill their boots.. after all , these jobs are sought after rather than actually being all that difficult.

also, as regards work places, lots of people have to work in places like supermarkets, schools built mainly of asbestos, outdoors, and on buses.
(for example).They often get dreadful money for the privilege.

[scottycelt]

Sian Williams has already refused to go.

What about Bill Turnbull and the other early morning presenters? Are they going to be picked up by BBC funded taxis at 0230 every morning?

(Apologies in advance to the emoticon-only haters)

[Mary Chambers]

These people have families, partners with jobs, children at school, perhaps elderly parents nearby. No wonder they don't want to move. I wouldn't.

[teamsaint]

These people have families, partners with jobs, children at school, perhaps elderly parents nearby. No wonder they don't want to move. I wouldn't.

Thats not the point really. The real question is whether this is, in fact a good move for the BBC and the country, and i really couldn't comment, other than to say that anything that decentralises from London is broadly to be looked on favourably.

people get asked to move all the time in their jobs, and people in highly sought after jobs surely understand that these demands come with the territory.
I would assume(maybe incorrectly) that there are opportunities to relocate to other areas /depts within the BBC that are not based in Manchester.
i have all the things you mention, based round me in wiltshire, and I would move to Manchester for a decent job at the BBC like a shot...and whats more my family would support me...... So it cuts both ways.

[Stunsworth]

Who, in their right minds would swop Maidenhead and the Thames valley for Salford and the Manchester Ship Canal?

The main BBC radio and TV studios are in Maidenhead and the Thames Valley? I never knew that, I thought they were in Shepherd's Bush and central London.

As far as I'm aware there is no requirement for the employees to live in Salford. You might be surprised at how pleasant some of the areas within an hour's drive. In fact it's reported that Alderley Edge in Cheshire has more millionaires per square mile than anywhere else in the country

[Al R Gando]

I understand the BBC have arranged for a twice-daily shuttle delivery of piping-hot lattes and crayfish salads from Upper Street, N1. It's been put down in their tax submission as a Hardship Payment.

[salymap]

When my music publishing job [one of them] in London made us all redundant I couldn't move because my partner was London based and I had a home and elderly mother to keep me here. A young couple and several single people moved to Norfolk and within a year they had all been been made redundant again and found it much harder to find suitable work up there, beautiful though it is.
Luckily I soon found something else in London, think twice and three times before you move.

[teamsaint]

I understand the BBC have arranged for a twice-daily shuttle delivery of piping-hot lattes and crayfish salads from Upper Street, N1. It's been put down in their tax submission as a Hardship Payment.

more wasted taxpayers money......they could simply send out to the M and S simply food at one of the M6 services, where us ordinary workers can buy our latte and our crayfish snax... if we can afford them !!

Mind you, when they find out that reps and builders are eating crayfish sarnies, they will soon change their diet !

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well couldn't we outsource the whole r3 thing to NPR say .... or Japan? [might get a decent ration of jazz then] .... the organisation mind set that thinks that all work is eaasily digitised and mediated by hardware connection has already been shown to be dubious in most large corporate businesses .... my tuppence is on a cluster screw-up .... simply because Thompson and his mob are like that .... and it is a sop to the politicians too .... that said, long live decentralisation to the regions .....

[vinteuil]

people get asked to move all the time in their jobs, and people in highly sought after jobs surely understand that these demands come with the territory.
I would assume(maybe incorrectly) that there are opportunities to relocate to other areas /depts within the BBC that are not based in Manchester.
.

... for me in 1991 it was a choice of Manchester or Paris.

I chose Paris

[Serial_Apologist]

... for me in 1991 it was a choice of Manchester or Paris.

I chose Paris

...and all you got in return was an eyefull

[scottycelt]

In fact it's reported that Alderley Edge in Cheshire has more millionaires per square mile than anywhere else in the country

That's quite true and they're nearly all professional footballers ...

However, there are quite a few sensible and tasteful southerners who live in leafy Cheshire by choice and commute to work in London every weekday.

Nearby Wilmslow has an excellent direct train service to the capital, the fastest now taking under two hours.

If some of these commuters are, by chance, BBC employees, any transfer by the organisation to Salford Quays could be the ultimate dream-move ..

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As for the orchestra, is Salford City not (to be) a co-sponsor with the BBC? You (VH) think that's a threat to the BBCSO's existence?

Fears have been expressed that the BBC Phil's future may at risk if Salford's sponsorship were to end when the agreement expires.

[Al R Gando]

more wasted taxpayers money......they could simply send out to the M and S simply food at one of the M6 services, where us ordinary workers can buy our latte and our crayfish snax... if we can afford them !!

Errr, I wasn't being entirely serious :) Quite interesting that people actually believed it could be true, though...