[Margaret Pilkington]

It isn't that there is NOTHING good here, it is just if you tell folk to come because it is a Market Town they are going to be mightily disappointed when they see the market and the shops.
It needs to be looked at differently........and it is no good pointing to other towns who have got it wrong and likening ourselves to them...we need to look at places like Bury.
A town which is well within travelling distance of a large city - which you would think would damage their trading base, but for some reason it doesn't!

So what is Bury doing that we cannot do.
And Manchester is a much bigger threat to the commercial centre of Bury than Whitebirk is to the commercial development of Accrington.

The excuses need to stop. Too many past councils have not seen the writing on the wall, have done things that have been bad for the centre of Accrington...and we are going to be having another disaster soon when they put the Bus station down Union Street.