[Gayle]

Sorry, can't take part in this one because I support the changes and I believe that the town centre will suffer.

I've said for a long time that the route to success in Accrington is not to compete with the likes of Next or any other chain store. We don't have the spending capacity in Accrington to make any of those stores viable. Keep them out of the town centre and let the council make the profit on the rent of the land.

In the town centre we should be concentrating on specialist shops - make Accrington the place to buy specialist meats, arts stuff, antiques, or any other type of stuff.

If you don't view it as competition the two types of shopping experiences can sit side by side.

So won't be voting on this one.