[Margaret Pilkington]

I really like the little quirky shops and lament that we no longer have a decent book shop.
I spent many happy hours in Wardleworths in Accrington, and Seed and Gabbutts in Blackburn.
I have little option but to buy off the internet because the town has no bookshop.
It is a question of scale...but it is also making the shopping experience in the town 'friendlier'...and I don't mean that the market stall holders have to have smiles welded onto their faces, but that the shops need to be concentrated more centrally.
Making it easier for those without transport to shop and get back on the bus with their shopping without having to hike down Union Street.
What is going to happen to Peel Street......is it going to be one of those open spaces?
What happens to the shops in Little Blackburn road and Church street, Warner Street and Abbey street. The new bus station will leave them all high and dry.

Whitebirk has never been a threat to Accrington. Certainly not to the market anyway...it is out of the way, there is no public transport to get to it and if you get there there is very little of interest.