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Is this true @Noah
Ah, the shop that's been empty for 20 + years...SBC we invite you to a compulsory purchase!Ah, before both the windows got smashed in. Tbh, if you're gonna abandon a building in town, the least the landlord could have done is pad the windows up.
Using our money! No thanks it can be better spent elsewhere, where there is genuine need.Ah, the shop that's been empty for 20 + years...SBC we invite you to a compulsory purchase!
Unfortunately, many of the properties in our town centre are owned by remote investors who think nothing of land banking or sitting on assets waiting for their capital appreciation. Without intervention properties like this will deteriorate event further and a continually be a blot on the landscape.Using our money! No thanks it can be better spent elsewhere, where there is genuine need.
I don't deny it but there are far more pressing causes for the disbursement of public funds in what are hard times for local government.Unfortunately, many of the properties in our town centre are owned by remote investors who think nothing of land banking or sitting on assets waiting for their capital appreciation. Without intervention properties like this will deteriorate event further and a continually be a blot on the landscape.
Speaking of unsafe properties , apparently, the tavern might have to be demolished.Unfortunately, many of the properties in our town centre are owned by remote investors who think nothing of land banking or sitting on assets waiting for their capital appreciation. Without intervention properties like this will deteriorate event further and a continually be a blot on the landscape.
Speaking of unsafe properties , apparently, the tavern might have to be demolished.
Last time the river flooded , the water was never pumped out from the basement so the floor and building is rotten , making it not cost effective to continue the renovation on it.
There will always be a shopping list of priorities for public spending in good times and bad. I personally think that 20 years is a long time for nothing to be done.I don't deny it but there are far more pressing causes for the disbursement of public funds in what are hard times for local government.
Again, I don't disagree but there are other priorities.There will always be a shopping list of priorities for public spending in good times and bad. I personally think that 20 years is a long time for nothing to be done.
Yes, you are probably right. I'm not opposed to the revitalisation of town centres with 'above the shop' residential as long as there is a balance and some service/retail is retained. My concern is that with the relaxation of planning law we will see a proliferation of . flats in the centre and it will become something of a dormitory.Well planning permission was given to turn it into two restaurants, so they'd have to reapply with new plans if they wanted to continue with the restaurant idea.
The area will probably be redeveloped as flats joining on to the mills though .
Personally, I think the economic viability of the town centre is a priority...which is kind of the point of this thread.Again, I don't disagree but there are other priorities.
Yes, you are probably right. I'm not opposed to the revitalisation of town centres with 'above the shop' residential as long as there is a balance and some service/retail is retained. My concern is that with the relaxation of planning law we will see a proliferation of . flats in the centre and it will become something of a dormitory.
I have heard that the council has allowed one of the key developers 500 spaces in the new Riverside multi-storey to accommodate residents' vehicles but where will shoppers park? The County Council already has a number of space in this facility during the week and now more will be taken up - fewer spaces will put more people off coming into town to shop I suspect.
Speaking of unsafe properties , apparently, the tavern might have to be demolished.
You are too late, it is already happening, and has been doing so quite openly for a decade at the very least. It's all but happened already. We are already a dormitory town - a sleeper suburb of London/Birmingham/Manchester that will only become more so.My concern is that with the relaxation of planning law we will see a proliferation of . flats in the centre and it will become something of a dormitory.
People of the county town - you have been sleepwalking into dystopiaWhat do you think will be the future of a town like Stafford?
What will the centre of a town like Stafford look like in ten years time - twenty years time?
What seems almost certain is it will look massively different to the Stafford of the 'Stafford Remembered' crowd, desperately clinging on to a past that is so long gone. It seems almost redundant to suggest that it is these blowhards holding on to a supposed golden past that have sold us a future that stinks of shit, but I'm happy to make that link regardless of its obviousness.
You are all a National disgrace.
You are too late, it is already happening, and has been doing so quite openly for a decade at the very least. It's all but happened already. We are already a dormitory town - a sleeper suburb of London/Birmingham/Manchester that will only become more so.
Embrace your future.