[Margaret Pilkington]

They have all these high ideas about bringing people into the town from other areas.
Isn’t that what was planned when they chopped down two beautiful mature trees and then spent ludicrous amounts of money to create a paved wasteland…? but because they put a few artefacts that were supposed to memorialise war dead, well, hey it was justified.

They want to turn the Market Hall into a place of dining out…(or a food and drink destination is how they describe it -we have one of those . It is called Wetherspoons and it is cosier that the Market Hall)…who wants to dine out in a draughty stone flagged place?
Who on earth in this town has the spare cash to dine out?
These are pie in the sky ideas, dreamed up by who exactly?

The town has been mismanaged for decades by councils who had no sensible ideas and who destroyed what had been a thriving market….all to get a draughty bus station that takes people AWAY to other towns that have more to offer.

No I am not a town planner either, but I know what doesn’t make a town tick….town planners with no idea!