'...a survey by the Lancashire Telegraph revealed the town’s main shopping centre has 12 empty units and more than 20 premises in the town centre are up for let.'
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/ne...in_Accrington/
This isn't just down to the recession, as Accrington had many empty shops before the credit crunch.
Watch it get worse, when the town centre Tesco opens.
As someone who actually shops in Accrington, and has only been to a town centre supermarket twice in the last five years, many of the traders, who are only just managing to stay afloat now, say this will finish their businesses off for good.
Well done H.B.C., a fine legacy to leave the people of the borough.
Still, at least the bung, whoops, million pound donation the council received from Tesco, given if the planning application was passed, will mean the flower towers will be well stocked. So although Accrington will become a commercial desert, at least it will be a pretty desert.