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How to kill off a town centre
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How to kill off a town centre
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-town-centres-red-route-21600703?utm_source=berkshire_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email
This council is well known for it's crackpot ideas and wasting huge amounts of money.
This is a town with so many shops with shutters down forever, the council seem determined to call time on those left open.
See the picture in the article, the town is empty. This was a very busy one way street and there were parking spaces albiet with a 30 minute time limit. Enough time to pop into a shop etc.
Traffic problems did not exist.
In all areas around the town they are well served by retail parks with the normal free parking, many don't even have parking companies involved because there is no need
The BPA use words like "selfish and abuse" ? For this council, they are right, not for the motorist but all once thriving retailers paying council tax and rent for a vanishing market place
Next will be a council suffering from a lack of income who will then go bleating to central government for money
"The council says it received no further objections since these changes were made."
Why would people complain, the locals could not care less, they get in their cars and in 5 minutes they are in a free car park. The rest of their shopping being easily done online
The mind boggles on the stupidity of councils
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/reading-town-centres-red-route-21600703?utm_source=berkshire_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email
This council is well known for it's crackpot ideas and wasting huge amounts of money.
This is a town with so many shops with shutters down forever, the council seem determined to call time on those left open.
See the picture in the article, the town is empty. This was a very busy one way street and there were parking spaces albiet with a 30 minute time limit. Enough time to pop into a shop etc.
Traffic problems did not exist.
In all areas around the town they are well served by retail parks with the normal free parking, many don't even have parking companies involved because there is no need
The BPA use words like "selfish and abuse" ? For this council, they are right, not for the motorist but all once thriving retailers paying council tax and rent for a vanishing market place
Next will be a council suffering from a lack of income who will then go bleating to central government for money
"The council says it received no further objections since these changes were made."
Why would people complain, the locals could not care less, they get in their cars and in 5 minutes they are in a free car park. The rest of their shopping being easily done online
The mind boggles on the stupidity of councils
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I wonder if our (and Reading's) octogenarian has comment to offer?Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street4 -
Not a lot, I rarely go into the shopping centre. BHS, Woolies, Debs, House of Fraser, Jacksons all gone, replaced by coffee shops, nail bars, tee shirt shops etc. Any stuff need buy on line.You never know how far you can go until you go too far.5
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Woolies? You still have a Woolies?0
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They have them in South Africa!Iceweasel said:Woolies? You still have a Woolies?Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street0
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