Town centres are dead – and no amount of public money poured into them will bring them back to life.
It’s not just shops that have gone; it’s all the other things that we used to go into town for as well. Going to the bank, paying the electric bill, paying the gas bill, paying the council tax, going to the insurance office, going to the post office….All these have become online functions and have been sold to us as “convenient” and “modern”. And we’ve all fallen for theme.
So don’t shout at the council. We’re all complicit in the demise of the town centre.