One blog I came across is dedicated to Rise Park, although it does touch on Nottingham attractions. The blogger criticises the Ice Centre for the lack of a statue to Torvill & Dean and the lack of car parking.
““The National Ice Arena, a large ice skating rink, is also based in Nottingham – also used as a venue for Concerts by International performers and artistes. Famous also for its association with Nottinghams’ own Olympic Ice Dance champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. But why no statue in their honour yet, perhaps it will come? And why did the designers ever believe that a car park was not needed at a venue such as this?”
I agree with both of these complaints. Torvill & Dean are one of the few sporting heroes to originate from Nottingham and it seems churlish not to have a statue dedicated to them.
When the new Ice Centre was built, a car park was deliberately left out of the plans. The idea was to encourage people to take public transport. This is agreat idea and I am sure it has partially worked i.e. there probably are more people travelling there by public transport than there may have been if the centre had a new car park. However, it causes great problems for anyone trying to park anywhere in the vicinity of the Ice Centre when there is a major concert.
For example, the car park at Victoria Leisure Centre and in some of the nearby residential streets, become completely clogged up with cars parked by users of the Ice Centre. As someone who uses the Leisure Centre, this makes me very unhappy.
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