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Originally Posted by garinda
'...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.'
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.
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Not much the council can do, not even Tesco's fault. Town centres all over the country are rotting, even picturesque market towns like skipton are becoming 'samey', with every other stall being tacky clothes, mass produced preserves or biscuits and sweets.
Go back 20 years to see what those empty shops in Accrington were :-
4 or 5 TV rental/repair shops...no longer needed, cheaper to buy from new than to repair, throwaway society..whatever
Bookshop....replaced by the internet
Toyshop...replaced by the internet
Woolshop..clothes now cheaper to buy than the wool
Typewriter shop... replaced by the computer
Hobby shop...electric train sets/airfix/scalextrix/subuteo....replaced by computer games
2 Tobacconists... no longer needed in a healthy world
3 or 4 Travel Agents...replaced by the internet
2 or 3 Furniture stores
Car accessory shop
Bike shop
etc..etc..etc..
all replaced by cheaper alternatives and the advent of t'internet