Hull [Why is the City Centre so DEAD at Night?]

Hull [Why is the City Centre so DEAD at Night?]
It’s common knowledge now that Hull’s centre is in dire straits. The town centre is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. I saw what was being said in the news and thought I need to do some research because something has to change. I found the problem lied with shops and outlets closing at a certain time which meant certain trouble causers gravitated towards these areas that were closing early. The more and more I researched, I realised this would make for a good video and so I put all my research into planning this video. Hope you enjoy. The bibliography is down below with all the links to the articles, videos and information I used.
Articles on Hull Daily Mail regarding the local plan www.hulldailym...
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Another article showing Hull’s derelict buildings www.hulldailym...
The ‘zombies in the city centre’ www.hulldailym...
St Stephens website www.ststephens...
Princess Quay website www.princesqua...
Hull Local Plan www.hullcc.gov....
Adam James great video walking around Humber Street • A Walk Around Humber S...
Copyright free music I used • Video
• Best Documentary Backg...
Big thanks to Marley for putting up with me in between shots and shout out to Lew My Dudes
CHECK HIM OUT / @lewmydudes

[@godsp.a-book7596]

Dude, you can't rely on an over saturation of drinking economy to fix a lack a decent work and increased living costs. All these outlets you suggest are luxury goods that no one can afford, that's why they are empty and close. You want to fix Hull? Ban supermarkets which destroyed everything from fruit shops to fishmongers to clothing shops and now is even destroying its work force by getting self service tills only. Hull is a prime example of a town with his historic industry removed and then it's secondary economy of shops destroyed also. That's why people are skint and don't go out.

[@zephergaming4437]

You can’t ban supermarkets. Ethan has made some very valid points. Hull needs ££££££

[@Paul-hl8yg]

St Stephens, Princes Quay, Internet sites ( ebay/amazon etc) & high rents for shops in the city centre, is what is killing shopping & investment in Hull. How can anyone start a business with sky high rents & compete with the big chain stores in the central shopping centres & large units (b&q etc) at retail parks?

[@richardautenzio8117]

I was born in Hull in Ryde Street of Beverley Road in 1947 and worked at the General Post Office delivering Telegrams until 1965. It was a very successful place back then because of the fishing industry. But it was a very rough place too. However the city centre back then was a hoot both night and day. Whitefriargate was one of the busiest shopping streets in the city, and traffic could go down it from the north end, but it was a pedestrian priority street. Hull was a city then. I now live in Australia and had a business for many years in the centre of Brisbane. I learnt a lot about Malls around Australia and I believe that Hull is most likely suffering from far too many streets blocked off and turned into Malls. Hull is not a big city by any means and restricting traffic into and around a modern city today might be an idealistic approach in one way, but not always the best for the people and business overall. Limit your traffic by all means but think of it this way. Hull has more Mall space than London. If you put as much Mall space in the centre of London it would die also. If people can't drive into a city and or around inside it, then they will just go to a large outer shopping centre with easy free parking. Others who have to go into the city do want street parking for convienence, even if they have to pay. This all creates a city atmosphere rather than a small town atmosphere. Do you want to be a city or just a small town mall?.

[@count69]

5:09 We have restaurants, shops, apartments and an ice rink already, and they're all practically empty! Whose going to fill these new ventures, there aren't enough people to fill up everything already in Hull anyway?!

[@tedthesailor172]

That's a fair comment. There's no point providing yet more facilities when the existing ones remain under-utilised. That's just wasting money. The council (and MP's need to focus upon attracting modern industries. They will create the jobs that will likewise draw-in people - talented people, not shelf-stackers - whose numbers and salaries will boost the local economy and help to underwrite existing facilities. Do that and expansion will take care of itself by the simple expedient of supply and demand. Simply duplicating existing facilities for a contracting and essentially low-skill low-paid workforce seems to have been the (failed) policy these last 30 years...

[@suchcone]

I'm visiting Hull for the first time (literally came to cycle over the bridge) and am really impressed with the place. It's clearly had loads of investment. Feels like a hidden gem in some ways. But I definitely thought the Friday night town centre seemed quiet. Overall town felt safe enough!

[@hugh.g.rection5906]

if you like cycling id recommend the trans Pennine trail from hull to hornsea when the weather is good. its a really nice bike ride and a nice day out at the beach

[@ASKR303]

decades of labour councilors have destroyed hull night life

[@galaxion62]

Yes... I agree that bunch of fuckwits are responsible for the demise of the city night life, they have either closed, or forced closure of all the once popular venues.

[@oldgitsknowstuff]

The first question people ask you when you say you're from Hull is....'where is it ? There's only 2 groups of people who know where Hull is and its the people who live here and the Luftwaffe !

[@galaxion62]

Ha ha... yes good point raised there... & I have evidence still present in my loft of the Luftwaffe 'visits' to Hull... with pieces of anti aircraft shell shrapnel embedded in my roof timbers!. We are no longer fighting the Germans, but currently more like the tyranny of the World Health Organisation now trying to globally dominate & rule us!.

[@alanward4506]

I think your theory that the separation of the facilities is correct.We visit Hull regularly and spend all our time in the Marina old Town areas.Smartening up Whitefriargate would be a good move.

[@keefa001]

I agree completely with the views expressed, I also see a huge potential for Hull city centre with tourism, restaurants and bars, smaller unique shops are the future for all city centres and we should be encouraging more people to set up in the city. We have the river Hull that snakes it’s way into Beverley , if we could invest in creating cycle and walkways by building new river defences all along the route we would effectively unite the East Riding with hull along this untapped river potential . The river Humber to the Humber bridge similarly developed would really open up our city for investors !

[@stevehill2862]

There are enough pubs and restaurants in Hull so if you redevelopment Whitefriargate to have the same you will just take punters away from the existing places like Humber Street and prince's avenue for example. Look at St Stephens draining customers from Princes Quay. There is only so much disposable income in Hull.

[@marcobrian1619]

Im going to diss your clip, you are Bob on. But IV worked in Hull for over 20yrs. I'll be blunt but honest. Hcc is a bunch of tosses. You can't park to visit areas. The road works and cycle lanes has completely screwed the hole city up. (Take Blackpool, drive in and park, spend day there drive out again) Hull road system is screwed up more after the so called improvements!!!!! As for night life..... The main in come for night life is over in cottingham with the students........ Miles away from the city centre. I'll be truthful, IV worked in Hull for over 20yrs, I don't want to live there and s soon as in clocked off in out of there.....with traffic jams and roads closed.

[@alfienorth9729]

Without bars and restaurants then why would anyone hang about in the city centre. Refunding white friargate has been awarded the funding its applied for years ago, but it still won't make the centre look any busier, because the centres divided in half, so from princes quay down to paragon it'll still be deserted

[@anthonysmales417]

If St Stephens was located centrally, rather than at the train station, what would be the effect? Perhaps not totally the magic bullet, but I think the location of St Stephens was a critical mistake

[@shauntaylor6040]

Hull is OK but like many cities the centre is struggling especially Whitefriargate which is finished.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

I went back to Hull, my home town, in 2018 for a solo visit. My first one in 36 years. Whitefriargate just was so depressing. It was one long run of charity shops. The place used to be buzzing all the time when I was growing up and going out.I left with a very heavy heart.

[@count69]

7:40 In the 1980s Whitefriargate was the place to be! It used to be like a nightclub along there on a Saturday afternoon, it was always packed, elbow to elbow, and you coudln't get onto Whitefriargate until somebody came out!

[@galaxion62]

Wow yes.... I had actually forgot just how busy it did actually get in the 80's down there... just as described here. It attracted crowds similar to Hull Fair on Saturday afternoons. Problem is... there is little to attract anyone into the city centre these days, they shut down all the nightclubs like LA's, R&J's, The Room, Planet Earth, Oddessy Discotheque, Trog Bar, & Heaven & Hell. We use to turn up on our gleaming Yamaha RD two strokes with pride, outside Trog Bar on a Saturday afternoon. There's nothing left now, all mostly ruined by this bunch of fuckwits called Hull Shitty Councill!. This useless lot couldn't run a piss up in a brewery!.

[@DM-mu4et]

Back when ppl actually Had Money and went out for drinks and to socialise

[@Michelle-xt4dc]

This is my home land and I have never been so ashamed of this city. It is a disgrace, it has nothing to offer any age bracket. There seems to be less and less decent places to visit or shop. Extortionate rent and rates have killed this city. It has been well and truly f@cked over, I never thought I would leave hull permanently but I am so done. Sh!those!

[@pauldonkin1964]

A Labour council and 3 Labour MP's, thats why it is empty!

[@Alfrado-lb4jb]

As long as I've been living in Hull it's almost like on a night we evacuated due to some sort of event I need to no why

[@lewmydudes]

3 years later and Whitefriagrate is like 40% closed shops including m&s rip

[@oddities-whatnot]

Good video. Im not from Hull but I have been a number of times for work and days out etc. Its not as bad as people make out, a lot of the dreadful areas are being demolished etc and investment is surely going to help but the fact remains that a lot of people simply dont have the money to spend going out to pubs these days. Thats been the case for years and the drink culture is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. As for more restaurants, who will visit them if they havnt got the money ? Its like putting a Porsche dealership on a council estate and expecting customers to flock in.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Your voice doesn't sound like true Hull . Is there another accent hiding in there? I left Hull for good, when i was 21, in 1982...Christ, that really does seem a lifetime ago...and the centre was always buzzing at night...and on Fridays and Saturdays, often buzzing with a scrap or two. Happy days. The new shopping complex and the pedestrianisation has helped sterilize the centre. Prefer it how it was.

[@ChrisJSetterington]

I don't have any comments on the comments. That was a really good representation of how things are when you leave then come back, I left in 2006. and I do miss home. It's not the same any more. when I come back to visit

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Imagine leaving for good, when you are 21,and then returning in 2018 . It was depressing. I was so happy in my childhood and teenage years. The place was always buzzing of a night...and day.

[@charliestoddart]

We dont wont loads of people here we just want ur community we dont want loads of people in town it's fine how it is

[@lesleyhart6295]

Hull was announced on November 20th 2013 as the City of culture for 2017.And in the summer of 2017 nearly 4 years later,we were still having to dodge trenches surounded by orange barriers in the City centre.Because the paving wasn't finished.Our main theatre was closed due to refurbishment until Autumn 2017.The grass stopped getting cut on the verges and central reservations.It screamed skint.The road system as of writing this, May 2021 is a total blood boiling mess.All day bus lanes and pop up cycle lanes have cut just about every major route to the City centre to half capacity.Numerous major roadworks drag on for weeks and weeks all at the same time creating gridlock.The same labour council is voted in time and again.Because my dad voted labour and his dad did.Driving a taxi one night.I pulled up to an address of someone who was a friend of a very prominent East Hull Labour MP.Anyway I'm waiting about as long as a taxi driver could be expected to and was getting a bit peeved.This hoity toity woman appears and gets in and announces "John says make the taxi driver wait" Aye I thought is that why Labour are for the working class.

[@thealmosthdchannel]

Great editing Leon

[@DM-mu4et]

As many are saying.. No Jobs no money and ppl doin everything over the internet... Hull has its charm but its not what it was.

[@markhauxwell1230]

It’s not its full of spice zombies if you get the right spots 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

[@bengreenley1297]

Kids need something to do because they turn to drugs and other bad stuff to find something to do cos there board

[@ALEXLUCCI]

why the city is so dead after 5pm

[@igmason0972]

The restaurant that he was sat in I’ve been in there

[@tedthesailor172]

Where on Earth did you get that accent...?

[@daveyboiyeah]

Deffo not a true Hull accent. Sounds awful!

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@daveyboiyeah haha! I've just posted the same at the top . That is NOT a true 'ull accent, yer ner.

[@jennieharrison1828]

It's an East Hull accent similar to mine. I know, I was born and brought up in Hull

[@tedthesailor172]

@@jennieharrison1828 East Hull accent, my ass. It's riddled with West-Indian patois. He sounds more like a white guy raised in Brixton.

[@PeterMaddison2483]

If you want to know why Hull is so dead then take a look at the following video.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWbYXmuofLOCbLM The council seem to think that the houses need knocking down and rebuilding, the same has happened to the west side of Hull too. Where do you think the people who used to live in those houses have gone? Are they in a holding area waiting to be moved back into brand new houses? NO, they've escaped and moved elsewhere as there's nowhere else in Hull for them to live. That's why Hulls nightlife is dead, but don't worry as the new houses which the council are having built will be filled very quick, as they'll be millions of immigrants shipped in and the whole culture of Hull will change too. I'm so glad I left in 2009.

[@AntoniTheGamer]

Shut up i live in hull respect it

[@lewmydudes]

Yeah leon... respect hull #fax

[@AntoniTheGamer]

@@lewmydudes Agree

[@Pops3817]

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