Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

[staffordjas]

Peacocks are playing a game of "chicken" with the landlord. They have put the rent up and Peacocks are refusing to pay - the "Closing Down Sale" is pending landlord negotiations. If the rent is reduced, they will stay - if not, they will go. Simply business decision really.

Did they not used to be in the old Co-op? And possibly, elsewhere, too?

Or was that Dorothy Perkins?

Peacocks used to be in the Wildwood Co-op.

I remember when Dorothy Perkins used to be somewhere between the old M&S and Samuels on that same side of the street (That was what the premises that sprung to mind when the mention of a new pub being opened in the old Dotty P's was mentioned lately...forgot the later one was over the road from there)

 

[proactive]

I would say so...

On the plus side will make a great location for a Little Waitrose.

 

[Studio Tan]

 

[Tilly]

This this this. There’s so many houses in Stafford that are Buy To Let. And a lot of them struggle to be let anyway as we have a considerable number of pretty poor rentals probably left over from being student rentals. When we were rental hunting we were shown round a house that had a plastic roof like you’d find in a conservatory but it was the roof to an actual extension and there was a massive hatch/window type opening in the wall from kitchen to this heat losing room. Overall very grotty.

Eventually some are able to buy, and that’s where the new housing is needed - people moving from rentals to buying and thus not opening a house up into the market to be purchased in the process.

Rentals are now being flipped to Air BnB

This is slowly affecting the hotel trade

Although demand is still strong in the local hotels

 

[Withnail]

If you've never given it much thought, and why would you, you might wonder why a town like Stafford has a strong demand for hotel beds, or Airbnb rentals for that matter.

Where are all these 'tourists' coming from? What's the itinerary for the Stafford tourist trail?

I used to work in a hostel in Windsor, and can answer that question - construction workers. We had a team of chaps from various parts of Yorkshire that would block book a room for 8 from Sunday to Thursday for weeks at a time. Check-in Sunday evening for a Monday start, check-out Friday morning to leave from site to be home for the weekend.

This is also why Sunday evening is a counterintuitively terrible time to travel.

 

[industryarch]

If you've never given it much thought, and why would you, you might wonder why a town like Stafford has a strong demand for hotel beds, or Airbnb rentals for that matter.

Where are all these 'tourists' coming from? What's the itinerary for the Stafford tourist trail?

I used to work in a hostel in Windsor, and can answer that question - construction workers. We had a team of chaps from various parts of Yorkshire that would block book a room for 8 from Sunday to Thursday for weeks at a time. Check-in Sunday evening for a Monday start, check-out Friday morning to leave from site to be home for the weekend.

This is also why Sunday evening is a counterintuitively terrible time to travel.

All the b&b on lichfield road were used by visting engineers to gec

 

[Tilly]

Stafford is also halfway between down there and up there

The 4 large hotels near the M6 are as far as the tourist trail goes locally

Unless your name is Rick

 

[Withnail]

All the b&b on lichfield road were used by visting engineers to gec

And the ex-Frankie 'n' Benny's building aforementioned elsewhere essentially an hotel for the 'top brass'.

 

[Gareth]

True

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46630861

 

[pop80_uk]

Looks like "Sweet" in town under Staffordshire Place Council buildings might be going.

They seem to be packing everything up and moving our equipment.

 

[proactive]

Looks like "Sweet" in town under Staffordshire Place Council buildings might be going.

They seem to be packing everything up and moving our equipment.

Hardly surprising, I don't think I've ever seen more than 2 people in there when I've walked past.

 

[Pooryorick]

Looks like "Sweet" in town under Staffordshire Place Council buildings might be going.

They seem to be packing everything up and moving our equipment.

They're having a ballroom blitz

 

[Thehooperman]

They're having a ballroom blitz

It's reopening as a Blockbuster.

 

[Feed The Goat]

Looks like "Sweet" in town under Staffordshire Place Council buildings might be going.

They seem to be packing everything up and moving our equipment.

We have got far too many dessert shops.

Why not change it to what we are short of in this town?

Like a Vape shop.

 

[bunique]

We were in there on Sunday and there were only two other tables with people at. Shame as I think they banked on the cinema opening much earlier than it did, and then it would have become part of the nighttime economy in town.

 

[bunique]

It’s miles better than the little dessert shop too

 

[Feed The Goat]

We were in there on Sunday and there were only two other tables with people at. Shame as I think they banked on the cinema opening much earlier than it did, and then it would have become part of the nighttime economy in town.

Fridaynightime Economy + Saturdaynightime Economy = Sodallrestoftheweeknightime Economy

 

[Tilly]

Papa Joe Shirley

 

[proactive]

Shirley not.

 

[Tumble weed]

It'll probably turn to a cocktail bar, maybe my belles will return ?!

On a serious note, that's two new parts of the new Riverside that's already closed.