Rundown town centres

[its a Barm]

Its all the local councils fault they are too greedy, instead of lowering rents and rates to atract shops and cafe/restaurants they put them up, until they wake up and figure it out it will stay they same.

 

[Jung the foreman]

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

If you don't live in Burnham on Sea in Somerset I am amazed. That is word for word what has happened here, including the new town centre manager.

 

[The Silver Surfer]

It could've very easily been Bury on the list.
I hated the town centre and its crappy market for years. Its my nearest town but I always said I'm from Whitefield (which is south Bury).

But fair enough what the council did on the The Rock over 5 years ago, turning it into a shopping, living and entertainment space could almost be described as visionary. Where others have drowned, Bury has thrived.
Its got great transport links and colleges and i'd much rather go there now than the Trafford Center to shop or watch a movie.
I'd still go to Manchester for a night out but my nights out are declining with age anyway now.

But yeah, I'm quite proud of the place now.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Bristol.

People have this lovely image of Bristol with Clifton suspension bridge gracefully spanning the avon gorge, and the lovely victorian houses in Clifton and Clifton Village. Picture postcard. Lovely.

The reality is the whole City is pretty much a shit hole with individual districts vying for being the shittest:

Hartcliffe - not safe at night. Or the daytime.
Lawrence Weston - makes Harlem look like Martha's Vinyard
Southmead - make sure you have a gun on you
Lockleaze - I'd rather live in Strangeways. Most of the residents used to.
St. Pauls - up and coming. From the very bottom
Bedminster - "bohemian". AKA "a total shithole"
Patchway - cheapest drugs in town
Easton - Average life expectancy, 26
St. Werbergs - Handy if you fancy a shag for £20

I can go on and on. The whole place is an utter dump.

 

[mancitymick]

Not so much a town but when i bought my first house in Tyldesley (I didnt drive) i had everything i needed on the high street. Butchers, greengrocers, supermarket and a couple of take a ways. Fast forward 15 years i have something like 7 kebab houses and 3 bookies.

 

[jacko74]

A couple of years ago Glossop was mainly charity shops and pound shops.. now there's a whole load of pretentious boutiques, artisan food shops, craft shops, coffee lounges, ''vintage'' (secondhand) shops and an eye-wateringly expensive furniture shop.

All these places just sell overpriced shite to desperate, gullible debt junkie mugs who are willing to buy it just so they can post pictures of their latest purchase on facebook.

I honestly preferred it as it was, at least you could buy stuff you actually needed for a sensible price.... now all you can buy is smelly candles, expensive coffees and hand crafted rustic bread.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Doubled since 2010 in a time that homelessness services have had their budgets halved. What a coincidence.[/QUOTE]

Getting warm.

Dudley is even worse !

Oi'll give it foive !

 

[masterwig]

It could've very easily been Bury on the list.
I hated the town centre and its crappy market for years. Its my nearest town but I always said I'm from Whitefield (which is south Bury).

But fair enough what the council did on the The Rock over 5 years ago, turning it into a shopping, living and entertainment space could almost be described as visionary. Where others have drowned, Bury has thrived.
Its got great transport links and colleges and i'd much rather go there now than the Trafford Center to shop or watch a movie.
I'd still go to Manchester for a night out but my nights out are declining with age anyway now.

But yeah, I'm quite proud of the place now.

Bury has done well with the development of the Rock but you can't underestimate the pull of the market. Coach loads of pensioners travel in because of it. The Rock could quite easily have been a white elephant were it not for the existing pull of the 'world famous' market. It might not be to your taste but it is authentic and marks Bury out from the identikit town centres up and down the country. Rochdale and Bolton ruined their markets and both have suffered as a result.

 

[xgorton]

Bristol.

People have this lovely image of Bristol with Clifton suspension bridge gracefully spanning the avon gorge, and the lovely victorian houses in Clifton and Clifton Village. Picture postcard. Lovely.

The reality is the whole City is pretty much a shit hole with individual districts vying for being the shittest:

Hartcliffe - not safe at night. Or the daytime.
Lawrence Weston - makes Harlem look like Martha's Vinyard
Southmead - make sure you have a gun on you
Lockleaze - I'd rather live in Strangeways. Most of the residents used to.
St. Pauls - up and coming. From the very bottom
Bedminster - "bohemian". AKA "a total shithole"
Patchway - cheapest drugs in town
Easton - Average life expectancy, 26
St. Werbergs - Handy if you fancy a shag for £20

I can go on and on. The whole place is an utter dump.

Portishead and the Marina nice places to visit,we always stay at the travel lodge in Portishead on the way down to Bude.Good bars and places to eat and very dog friendly for Bluey our cockerpoo.

 

[argyle]

No surprise that those towns with the highest concentration of chavs are the shittiest.

Or on the other hand, are chavs drawn like flies to a turd to the towns where there are poundshops, greggs and bookies?

Makes you wonder.