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Guess where it's going...not the 'High St', but a...retail park.

Guess which is the only 'shopping' town in the area without one. Blackburn and Burnley councils (whilst building their own), hornswaggled our council into spending money to stop the only viable one we could have had. Bet M&S would have been one of the first to open up on there.

If you destroy a market with character and replace it with a few stalls situated in a wind tunnel open to the elements, if you 'renovate' a quaint old market hall and remove its atmosphere, if you destroy a massive free car park and replace it with a leaking, stinking, concrete monstrosity, if you plan to cordon off the centre from cars and move the bus station, if you fail to accept that most people prefer retail parks for a variety of reasons, if you have constant roadworks on access routes, if you remove benches instead of drunks whilst actively encouraging the latter under the guise of 'charity', if you have to resort to wallpapering shop windows to give the appearance of bustling...

If you did any one of these the town could be in trouble..

When you incompetently do them all the town is screwed beyond hope..is anyone seriously surprised that yet another shop is moving out?