Rundown town centres

snorky said:
Yep, and the council put up the car parking charges and are now considering on street parking meters. Town centre is dying.
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This happened near us.....local town centre full of charity shops, greggs and Poundlands or boarded up. Council appointed a new town centre manager who's only action has been to increase car parking charges from 20p for the first hour to £1..............guess what...even Morrisons on the edge of town has now shut
 
Grassland Blue said:
I always thought that some of the empty and boarded up shops could be used for any genuine homeless. This would at least give people an address which could be used by them to give to any prospective e
Any town or City that used idle property in this way would then have to describe itself as 'beggar free.'
People caught begging in 'beggar free'
towns and cities would then be charged with causing a public nuisance, or perhaps harassment.
I do have sympathy for the genuine homeless, but the number of people begging these days is beyond a joke.
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Doubled since 2010 in a time that homelessness services have had their budgets halved. What a coincidence.
 
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