Whitebirk Retail Park

maxthecollie · 22-05-2012, 11:41

I've just seen on BBC text that Hyndburn Council have turned down an application for Peel Holdings to develop the units at Whitebirke with some different retailers.

lancsdave · 22-05-2012, 12:03

yay they got a decision right

wallop79 · 22-05-2012, 12:50

HBC is frightened of the competition, but to be in a competition you have to have something to compete with, seeing as the vast majority of 'shop's in Spacky Accy consist of charity, pound, kebab & card shops along with good owd Maundy, what are they bothering for. About time the bloody council took notice & got some decent retailers into the countless empty shops, that way people would shop in their home town instead of outta town.

lancsdave · 22-05-2012, 13:00

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Originally Posted by wallop79

HBC is frightened of the competition,.

Lost me there, what competition ?

wallop79 · 22-05-2012, 13:11

What I meant is HBC are frightened of the competition from Blackburn with regards to shops, but there is no competition with the crap Accy has to offer compared to the range of shops in Blackburn. (apart from your good self). They seem to think if Whitebirk was developed it would take money away from the shops in Accy.

shillelagh · 22-05-2012, 13:45

so you want the restrictions lifted wallop .... well peel holdings are threatening to take hbc to court for refusing to lift it ....

BBC News - Peel Holdings' legal threat over Whitebirk retail park

if you want accrington to have a better range of shops then you shouldnt want the restrictions being lifted ....

lancsdave · 22-05-2012, 13:47

Money talks so I'm fairly sure Peel Holdings will sort it out

Chicken and Egg I'm afraid. Retailers aren't going to move in unless the people are going to spend money. The nature of the town at the moment is that it's a magnet for every waif and stray the dodgy landlords will be able to claim housing benefit off. The best thing the council can do is create jobs rather than shops, and clamp down on dodgy landlords. That way the town can regenerate it's own wealth and the attraction for retailers becomes better.

I'm afraid thats not going to happen because there's a white elephant to buy first

Neil · 22-05-2012, 14:57

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

I'm afraid thats not going to happen because there's a white elephant to buy first

I will ask, which white elephant is that?

lancsdave · 22-05-2012, 15:12

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Originally Posted by Neil

I will ask, which white elephant is that?

The Bus station, you know the one thats going to have people flocking in

garinda · 22-05-2012, 15:44

Will I be allowed to take my elephant, and my guide dog, on buses that will use Accrington's new state of the art bus station?

Cool.

Though as you say, they'll already packed with hordes of passengers, who've suddenly decided Accy is the new destination to visit, so they can see a digital board displaying the bus numbers, and the current temperature in the shade...in Kashmir.

I always find it hard to think of Whitebirk as being in Hyndburn, and not Blackburn.

Though on this occasion I congratulate our councillors.

Concentrate on the dying town centers within the borough of Hyndburn.

Don't encourage further expansion of out of town shopping parks, filled with the same old multi-nationals.

Well done.

wallop79 · 22-05-2012, 16:13

HBC have chosen to do naff all with Accy for donkeys years, so why spit their dummy out now. I remember walking into Accy on Saturday's down Grange Lane & there being no parking spaces either there or the surrounding car parks, (when I was a bit younger) now there's umpteen free spaces on a Saturday, allowing Whitebirk to be developed is like tying to shut stable door after horse has legged it.

Neil · 22-05-2012, 16:35

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

The Bus station, you know the one thats going to have people flocking in

I had forgotten about that, been a bit busy recently.

Who is paying for the elephant, is it HBC or still the LCC rapid transport waste of money to save 3 minutes getting from Accy to Blackburn that will make it easier for Accy folk to shop in Blackburn?

maxthecollie · 22-05-2012, 16:43

They will be putting free buses to Whitebirke

jaysay · 22-05-2012, 17:38

Well it says it all really when the deputy leader of HBC and the person responsible for the town centre, advertised going for some retail therapy in Manchester or Bolton

Wynonie Harris · 22-05-2012, 19:21

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well it says it all really when the deputy leader of HBC and the person responsible for the town centre, advertised going for some retail therapy in Manchester or Bolton

So, is this any different than local politicians going to watch their football in Blackburn or Burnley?