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Originally Posted by Guinness

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 want. Removal of benches, lack of community policing. Claims that this retail park will affect local traders, whilst pushing a rapid transport scheme that will push anyone with half a brain away from the bombsite that is Accrington town centre.

Or is it Ken Moss..pushing for an out of town shopping centre along the canal at Rishton, more difficult to get to than Whitebirk by any form of transport except Bettys Taxis!

The days of catching a bus to town, getting your weekly shopping, lugging five or six brown paper carrying bags with string handles cutting the blood supply to your fingertips and waiting under a rain driven bus shelter is consigned to history, and only the muppets in council can't see it.

Accrington missed the boat when they built the Arndale...they already had the makings of a retail park...i.e. a massive central car park....if they had developed around it..the town would have been so different. Instead they built the white elephant Arndale, the only use of which is the high roof for setting off fireworks at Christmas!

I've been to Whitebirk today..from pulling up, buying what I needed and driving off..less than 10 minutes...also been to Tesco in Accrington..potholes, double parking under the railway bridge on Blackburn Road, taxi drivers ignoring give way signs etc..etc..

The council could deal with Peel Holdings..put on free transport, ensure their are adequate units for local traders etc..etc...

But they simply don't want to play...they believe the (non-existent) town centre is the way to go..Muppets!

To make the town centre viable again all they have to do is transport Maundy Grange to Whitebirk, problem solved