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Originally Posted by Neil
They are trying to make improvements to the town centre but when it comes down to it the majority of people don't want to shop in Accrington or it would be busy. It's declined because not enough people use it and it will keep declining until there is nothing left. People want to use Lidl, Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Iceland, etc and do all their shopping in one place and either put it in the car or get a taxi home. Online shopping is massive now and is as much to blame as supermarkets, maybe more so
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Who is or are this 'they'? You claim it's not the council but a group of anonymous volunteers that have put forward this plan?
Who or how were 'they' recruited and by whom? Why does no-one else seem to know about this all important 'they'?
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During a week-long public consultation, 41 people supported a ‘preferred option’, seeing all trees removed and replaced with new ones, and ten people backed an alternative option retaining the large horse chestnut. A further 15 people said both horse chestnut trees should be retained.
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Earlier on in the year there was a slightly larger public consultation in which 30 million were consulted it was the Brexit referendum to leave it resulted in a majority and yet many folk are dissatisfied with this result and complain, they have a right to complain.
The above 'public consultation' seems to have polled around 60 people out of a population of 80,734 (Census 2011), yet you say we shouldn't complain?
Hardly seems a democratic attitude does it?
Had there been more public consultation and at an earlier stage a more positive attitude might have resulted?