[Margaret Pilkington]

What is missing is vision.
There is going to be a new bus station......in what many people consider is going to be in the wrong place.
It would be so easy to move the existing traders into the market hall......there is plenty of space in there......and when the new bus station comes along there will be even more because people, especially the older folk of the borough (these are the ones which have the most loyalty to the market and the market hall) will find it a trial to walk over from the bus station.....so it is a fair bet that they won't bother.

Why couldn't a market be accommodated on Broadway? It would give the centre a sense of hustle and bustle.....it might even enhance the footfall in the dire Arndale centre.
Better yet demolish the Arndale and build the bus station on that land......oh, you are going to tell me that this last suggestion is impossible because it is in private hands - buy it back.

Accrington no longer has a heart, we all know what happens when the heart dies!