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Forum: General Chat 16-02-2014, 20:04

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Someone with a shred of common sense... There's a world of difference between opening a shop on a purpose built retail park hoping to sell stuff, and someone building a 20 foot concrete wall...

Forum: General Chat 15-02-2014, 21:23

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Yeah by the letter of the law I guess they are..but... Surely the whole idea of planning permission is to stop people from building monstrosities and not restricting trade and job creation. This...

Forum: General Chat 14-02-2014, 22:49

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Blackburn Poundstretcher shop ordered to shut on 'launch day' (From Lancashire Telegraph)...

Forum: General Chat 09-02-2014, 00:01

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Surely the council leader wasn't talking in a pub when he told the LT reporter that he was creating jobs????? Voluntary job losses as Hyndburn Council cuts £800k - Accrington Observer...

Forum: General Chat 07-02-2014, 21:19

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Get into bed with the devil..... Blackburn finance chief: 'We don?t want to be an Accrington? (From Lancashire Telegraph)...

Forum: General Chat 04-01-2014, 22:38

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Yes, yes, a thousand times yes...high streets across the country are dying...and the reason is simplicity itself....because the shopping habits of 'we the people' have changed. The days of...

Forum: General Chat 04-01-2014, 10:23

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park I've been to a few of these public meetings, where searching questions are dodged, ideas are brushed off and the outcome is steered to the one preordained. It's like being on an opposition bench...

Forum: General Chat 03-01-2014, 08:53

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Congratulations on getting all that in without referring to Whitebirk at all :D Taking you points in order... 1) I stand corrected, but you could have become a tory councillor if they and not...

Forum: General Chat 02-01-2014, 20:06

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Whitebirk is on the border, most of the proposed park would be in Hyndburn and it's got good all round access...Blackburn are fighting tooth and nail against it because it would impact on their...

Forum: General Chat 31-12-2013, 22:15

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park And there's the standard twee response from someone who doesn't take the time to think things through... a) How when only 28% of the people vote is it considered a majority?..surely the 72% who...

Forum: General Chat 31-12-2013, 08:54

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Perhaps you've spent 10 years going to the wrong meetings? On this one single forum there appears to be a consensus about the new bus station, the market, removal of benches, Europe, parking on...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 21:50

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Agreed....Although you'd think they would at least look at the Lancashire Telegraphs report on boxing day sales that went to great lengths to talk about queues in Blackburn and Burnley but made...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 21:41

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park See this is what is intrinsically wrong with HBC and thinking. Blackburn does not want Whitebirk because it will impact on them...this is true, the Mall and those widely strewn retail parks around...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 21:01

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Never said it hadn't? However.. Arndale..one bad driver can cause a logjam, use at your peril Back of the old tyre place...difficult to navigate, one badly parked car causes problems for...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 16:50

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park It's the second time that Graham has used this market as an argument against Whitebirk and for town centre markets. Great Harwood farmers market runs once a month on a sunday, it's not a labour...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 12:15

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Hmm.. 1) a nice open, well lit central car park 2) a central bus station 3) a spacious outside market with protection from the wind and rain 4) a quaint market hall stuffed with shops Oh...

Forum: General Chat 21-12-2013, 17:25

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park It didn't lose its way...it was steered over a cliff by daft decisions and blinkered thinking by successive councils. It now lies rusted and wrecked beyond repair on the rocks below. Stopping...

Forum: General Chat 21-12-2013, 13:47

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park It's like being in the twilight zone...Elected representatives banging on about a rosy future and bustling town centres with quaint shops that repair hoovers and phones. Unfortunately we live in a...

Forum: General Chat 20-12-2013, 21:54

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park What's your point? Hyndburn councillors burying their heads in the sand thinking that a retail park will hurt local traders more than their poor planning, their intransigence on what their voters...

Forum: General Chat 24-05-2012, 23:40

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By Guinness Re: Whitebirk Retail Park The town centre began to decline when half the market stalls started selling cheap cruddy clothes. This was followed by the white elephants known as the Arndale, the ring road, the new market hall,...

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