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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Would the Leader of the Council please verify the claim by Cllr Marlene Haworth in The Accrington Observer on 25th February that an extra 3,000 people have been brought into the town following Aldo Zilli’s appearance and explain how the council measured that figure?
Although the immediate response was to suggest that I was talking the town down while others were trying to talk it up, when asked a second time he indicated that there were several devices in the town centre to do this and that he was satisfied that anything Cllr Haworth had stated was true.
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Then it won't be a problem to let the rest of us trying to make a living out of Accrington Town centre, what these devices are and the measurements taken before and after. It might help retailers decide if the town is worth staying in or not.
I would say at least half of our business is made up of people from out of town who one wayor another have been told about us. Several conversations with these customers have resulted in them asking us why we don't move to thier towns, surely the business would do better. without my obvious bias, Burnley in particular is becoming a more attractive business case for us.
Basically we are trying very hard to hold on until after May to see what the outcome is, but it becomes harder by the day when certain names are mentioned who are desparate to run us and many others out of town.
