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Please, can we have WHSmith back up on Regent Street where it used to be?
Its only my opinion of course, but I much preferred it there.
And the good news is, at the time of writing, the building is vacant again, since the closure of the 99p store.Well asteve, with that level of campaign and argument you can’t possibly fail to get your way. Submit your one signature petition immediately!!
They need it central so that they can accommodate the Post Office when it closes in Henblas Street before the end of the year.
An interesting statement. Along with the point made on Royal Mail, and Central Retail Park … this raises the practical problem about how do we make Wrexham mean something to the consumer once again so that it will be used.
Putting rents and rates to one side for a moment, we are probably at a point where it has to be asked is this left to community and consumer influence, or integrated town management.
The community need a strong social centre which in turn creates the culture of the town, and you could argue that then drives the numbers of consumers who come to the town and total consumer spend. How do we do this? The first step is probably for all the traders, small and large, to identify how best the town could thrive again.
If sufficient trade can commit itself to the town, then rents and rates will become an issue, and this should be left to the free market to correct itself, which probably means they have to come down quite a bit.
Having tried integrated management of the town, it has become very zoned and very fragmented to its detriment. It probably needs a long period of natural correction … let investors and stakeholders and consumers play out how the town wants to form itself … it has to be convenient, rewarding, and fulfilling
@Maureen Gray 18994 wrote:
Well asteve, with that level of campaign and argument you can’t possibly fail to get your way. Submit your one signature petition immediately!!
Ouch Maureen.
I did say it was only my opinion.
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