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• Anything at the upper half of Stafford Street, there are about 20 derelict shops and buildings, it looks horrid.
• new art gallery
• too many too list!
• crown wharf start with coop travel and work the way round this would create more parking space and maybe widen the road out of walsall to get out of such a awful place
• -The bus depo with all the people responsible for this idiotic design. These nutty designers cant seen to create somethink that is going to be easy to manage and maintain in years to come.With its large glass windows and its high moon-like ceiling (i cant wait for the day when someone has to repaint over the grime! in 10-20years).I like the way Access is as easy from any dirrection for disabled people as able bodied!(NOT).They appear to have created a 'dead space' in front of St-Pauls church. -Tescos and the old square... tesco's manage to keep a 1980's feel to the interior of this fairly modern looking building, which is an achievement for a high st store with competition....I only pass through it and its like going back to when i was 14!.The old square needs something doing to it as the blue lights in the public toilets freak me out(to stop drug users shooting up)!. -The central feature at 'the Bridge'( huge gong thing) -Saddlers centre its not designed well enough to cope easily with the amount of shoppers it gets.Nor is it designed well enough to cope with disabled or mothers with pushchairs. The park st entrance is 75% surrounded by stairs and there is only one elevator to the ground floor were Argos and the other stores are. During busy times it feels cramped and crowded. The two escalators (1 for up, 1 for down) cause bottle necks and thier location isnt well thought out.When it was new it was modern and open , but compaired to other new shopping malls its small,dated and a little claustrophobic in places. -Art gallery... it was a designers dream and now its an actual nightmare. It doesnt blend in or reflect the local peoples past , present or aspiring future or culture. I think the guy who designed it was a Star trek fan(The Borg)??... plus it will cost a fortune to maintain. -The job centre on Litchfield street, partly personal reasons , but also the building looks dark gloomy and the elevator is 'ropey' at the best of times. -The building next door to the Royal Bank of Scotland that has the C.A.B in, as its just so dated. -Digbeth area of the market and all the shops (replace them). -the entire of Brownhills -The Asda in Blowich.. new improovements to it have only drawn attention to the fact its not big enough.Adding a new section with a 'news agents ' in a dead end, modern 'bottle necking' entrance/exit and cash machines outside(always fun trying to see the screen with the sun on it, or when the weather is crap!). Yes cash machines outside the superstore.... they want your money , but they dont care about you being uncomfortable or vunerable getting it!. -Walsall police station(nothing personal) the building just looks very dated with glass windows ... need something modern, like boxwich Police station. - All tower blocks and nothing to be built higher than 4 floors for housing lol!. -theyve already beat me to sainsbury on the hill below St Mathews church lol! -THe littleton arms, its just a poxy 'L' shaped pub that was under developed. If the adjcent buildings had been developed to be included with the pub to enlarge it. Then i might be more interested in preserving this pub.Unless the Black country museum want it??....its basically pick a spot and everyone has to shuffle out the way so you can worm your way anywhere in the pub.
• The entirety.
• most of walsall, except the well known shops which sell quality stuff

• the new art gallery
• Too many to list. Lets start with Virgin Megastores for wiping out the independant music shops.
• art gallery. fullstop
• Art Gallery!
• The recent art gallery in Walsall as it's an architectural disaster!
• The Bus Station - it looks like a giant concrete swiss cheese from the Soviet Union.
• deep pan pizza

• QM SCHOOL...
• all nightclubs
• CHURCH ON THE ROUNDABOUT BUY THE ARBORETUM
• WS1. Sofa Sofa. Revolution. Preferably with the bouncers inside
• the church at the end of mellish rd
• Walsall Town Hall (With all the bloody councillors inside) Leeches, parasites, jobsworth cronies, that's the best I can say about them...
• That art gallery.
• everything other than above
• Ashley freemans house
• Harley's
• horse and jocky pub my brother split his head there
• The town centre.
• the new art gallery. 'tis just a box.
• rich hills house just cus he lives there all the mosques
• The whole of fuckin Walsall might be a start especially in Pleck and Karma' where the people are scum and dirty bastards!!
• all the pakis houses
• THE ART GALLERY NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.please
• most pubs in town
• the old square because it stinks!!!!!
• Yates, Harleys.
• walsall town cenrter and the pig staion
• BENTLEY LIBRARY ABSOLUTE DISGRACE
• the new museam, sorry guys, Its gotta go. Ur doors look like prison, and tax payers money wouldve better spent on poor students such as myself
• The new art Gallory... Famous for it's design, I think it looks like a Brease block with windows!
• The bus-station. It looks like a prop from Independence Day.
• the whole of walsall and aldridge
• I THINK MOST OF WALSALL HAS ALREADY BEEN FLATTENED THERE ISNT A LOT LEFT TO KNOCK DOWN.
• Bayard House Jobcentre - with most of the staff still in it.
• the hippo
• DSS Lower Rushall Street - Nuff said !
• All of walsall and all the people who live in walsall.
• The Civic Centre in Darwall Street. Then all the Marxists who run the town can push of to China.
• Royal Mail Delivery Office
• HARLEYS
• Baileys, its grab a weapon night every night
• macdonalds in the center of town ( its a breeding ground for nutters )
• The bus stop as well as that stupid statue of princess di!
• The old square shopping centre is hideous.
• The Wharf, its too damn arty farty
• Queen Mary's Grammar School - an establishment entrenched in the pursuit of mediocrity. Utterly loathed by anyone with a smattering of intelligence who had all inspiration quashed whilst incarcerated there. I'll happily contribute to it's demise....
• To be fair most of the town needs demolishing
• The bit that goes over the market from the Old Square!
• The Saddlers Center. I used to work there, and its crap anyway.
• the vaults full of loosers.
• The Varsity Public House
• The building I would like to see get demolished is probably the (is it a good idea to say this?) O.K the New Art Gallery. Knock it down. They knock everything else down. Why not knock down the entire town centre?
• THE COUNCIL'S OFFICES ARE AN EYESORE
• The new bus station - what were they thinking?
• Walsall telephone exchange. Ugly 60's edifice.
• Marshalls flat
• Tesco's : build a nice shiny new one like they have in the rest of the world!!
• Barr Beacon School!!!!!!!
• Tesco - Grannie and Grebo land.
• The new art gallery. What a dump, only a couple of months old but looks like a 60's tower block with a bit chopped off.
• All of beechdale
• Queen Mary's Grammar School - "tortured in the classrooms, hung up from the roof..." old boys : you know what I mean
• Harleys nightclub - with Scott Mills inside! Hurrah!
• Safeway - tatty 1980's legoland post modern style warehouse
• The sodding overstrand resteraunt. It would be a good view but for that.
• Walsall police station....from the sixties and it shows.
• The whole of Walsall, it needs re-building.
• The building that used to be George's pub should be knocked down as soon as possible. It's an eyesore. It was going to be made into a drive-through MacDonalds, but no sign of that yet.
• flats in pleck, concrete jungle, drug haven, pimp heaven
• THE CIVIC CENTRE THE FORMER OVERSTRAND RESTAURANT
• Queen Mary's Grammar School.I was imprisoned there for the best part of seven deeply miserable years.Die,Q.M.,die.

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