'In the meantime, empty units at the centre are highly visible with the closures of stores such as Price Less Shoes, Stationery Box, Hampsons, Cryers Sound and Vision, Mark One, Rayman Gifts,the Officers Club, Children’s wear store Adams.'
'New occupants, Paddy Power and Ladbrokes.'
Concerns over empty shops in Accrington (From Blackburn Citizen)
So we waved bye-bye to art materials, kiddies clothes, books, shoes, and fashion, and welcomed two more betting shops.
Two more betting shops to add to the Chavtastically well supported array of mobile phone shops, trackie selling sports shops, and shops where you can buy a carrier bag full of frozen Pit Bull food for a pound.
Whoopie doo.
There is some good news, however. Central government have recently granted Hyndburn, because of it's position on the deprived borough list, £52,632, to help improve it's retail business.
£3million empty shop revival fund for most deprived and hardest hit high streets - Corporate - Communities and Local Government
Even better news would be if everyone in Accy had a spare eighty quid in their pocket, to fritter away on things they didn't plan to buy, and therefore had no urgent need for.
Oh what luxury we'd all feel to be in that position.
All the bills paid, and free to spend on whatever took our fancy whilst mooching round Accy.
Luxury brand retailers would soon be opening in Accrington, and Broadway would be giving Fifth Avenue, and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré a run for their money.
