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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
The intrinsic value of a town centre to me is not how shiny it is but what shops there are and I don't see how any Council can be held responsible for shopping habits and private enterprise. .
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well iv known a few market stall holders and met people with shops in Accrington and although this was under the conservitive rule when the town was starting to decline rents and rates were increased and by the time some concessions as little as the were got applied it was too little too late as most people had been forced out of buisness.
if i am correct i think charity shops dont pay as much council tax ,rates etc which would explain how they spread like a cancer in our town center while other self employed people folded
there was absolutely no need to demolish the outside market to build what is now Game,poundland and teh other shops in the new build that is there.All them buisnesses could have opened in the arndale as there wa splenty of space because they too were closing hand over fist
so yep councils can be blamed for driving out buisness and making a town center unappealing to investors or companies because the coucnil allows charity shops to run rife .
mind you it was hyndburn council who allowed whitebirk to be built which is where all the big names out of the arndale ran to which benefited blackburn not accrington