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The Market Hall is getting more and more stalls in it now…
Accrington is a Market Town… I have said it before flatten the Andale ( what left of it) and spend on the Arcade on Warner Street…. We need to be different to the other towns… Warner Street’s got some
Nice specialist shops on it… they need to leave well alone with the bus station… and work on what we have…. And the outdoor Market needs sorting… people used to come Accrington because it was different ( I am sure we could get that back again) if the powers that be used their heads and ask us the public what we want…. It’s time to stand out… before we become a complete ghost town…

I notice Ossy Mills now have Peacocks in there ( the store ) not the birds.... so will we have a mini what used to be high street in the mill ? one wonders.

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the powers that be used to come on here and agree that changes needed to be made to improve accrington town center when they wernt in power

since elected no changes,no action and no fresh ideas and definatly no indication of cleaning up the drunks and smackheads unless you count removing benches from town center as acceptable action

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That was it's name. Spot on Margaret.

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I read with interest but no surprise at all that 1 in 5 shops is going to be gone from high streets in the next 5 years. In Accy it'll be more.

That story, which is on the news today underlines the permanent change that our society is going through caused by a mix of recession and Internet shopping. The question to be addressed and alluded to by me is what should be done with the empty space. That's what I've been getting at in threads like this one and the one about what can the Mayor do to prevent Accys further decline.

All his is opportunity for me because I pickup the broken properties at auction to be fixed/repurposed to residential if required. In general the council needs a funded plan, and I don't believe they have one (they had a plan that was not funded) so what now Hyndburn?

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That story didn't surprise me one bit, I for one haven't bought anything from a shop myself for 18 years its all been done either on the internet or by phone and most of my food shopping is done at ASDA or Tesco, I sure I'm not the only one either

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As the Mayor's role has been answered and is out of the equation you would be better contacting the town centre manager Rob Grigorjevs. He should be able to enlighten you as to the current plans. If you follow the link you will be able to pick up his email address. When you find out you can enlighten us all :)

Great Harwood Farmers Market

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Thanks. I will do that and report back.

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I can't understand why the Farmers Market is not held in Accrington. If the Council are organising such things in the smaller towns of Hyndburn will it not take shoppers away from Accrington?

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There could be a possibility they aren't allowed too Neil, there are a lot of minor rules and regs which go with the status of Market Town, always remembering that Gt Harwood was once a town on its own, before the days of Hyndburn and were at one time classed as part of the Ribble Valley

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Possible also there are more Farms in the smaller places in Hyndburn? On that basis would be fair.

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What's your problem, there's tons of bull sold on the flea market several days a week :)

I don't think the council organise the Farmers Market

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why pay for your bull when you can go to the twon hall and ask why they have repeatedly lost your paperwork and recieve an abundance of it for free ;)

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Sorry Neil, why should a Farmers Market be forced to Accrington, are the outskirts of our magnificent Borough not allowed to use money making ideas for their own communities?

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Of course they are yes.

If you spread out the shopping opportunities across the Borough instead of trying to concentrate it in the centre of Accrington it will kill off Accrington even quicker.

There is only so much money to be spent so concentrating that spending in one town looks like the only way to make Accrington a vibrant shopping centre.

My own view is that ACcrington's current shopping area is far to big for the number of shoppers and should shrink to fit the shoppers.

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The reason the farmers market is in Great Harwood is because it was started by local business man Nick (might be Neil sorry) Gaskell from Gaskell motors. It was originally on their land but it started to get quite decent so they then had words with the council who supported the move to town gate and who now work on it as a joint initiative.