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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
In that case your experience has been different than mine and quite a few people I know including a number of members on here. You say "all town centres have their fair share of people who have little better to do than hang around on benches" but it seems to me that downtown Accrington has more than its fair share who are doing far more than just hanging around. Like Graham you seem to confuse the problems that any small Northern post-industrial town will be suffering at the moment and a problem particular to Accrington.
I remember you once saying that Accy has a good town centre infrastructure for a place its size and I think you're right - it just needs using to its full potential. However, you can't even make a start on realising that potential until that problem is sorted. But as you think that problem doesn't even exist, you're obviously not going to do anything about it.
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That's a bit unfair, I never said that it doesn't have problems it's just that I haven't really witnessed them. Enough people are making a noise about it so I'm taking the view that I haven't seen enough of Accrington life to make the best informed judgement.
There's no getting away from the fact that we're in a depressed area which has also taken a further beating from the recession. There's bags of room for improvement but the council doesn't have pots of money to throw at things and private investment is not forthcoming in many areas right now.
The subject keeps coming up time and again however and, although it isn't technically within my remit at HBC, drop me a line with suggestions or comments and I will make sure they are heard by the right people.