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Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?
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Feed The Goat
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If the new paving slabs were not enough to attract people to travel from the surrounding towns and cities.
Our lovely shops surely are.
Our lovely shops surely are.
gilbert grape
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"Presentation is key!"
Len's Lens
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That place was selling some end of the pier "Test Your Love" machines a few months ago, as well as some classic comedian's audio CD's neatly presented from a shoebox in the window. I see second-hand beds are now the order of the day.
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They are going to demolish the existing buildings which are in very good condition, why they cannot alter the existing building is beyond me. At the bottom end where we have our business it is going to be car parking, they have offered the landlord of our building way more than even he dreamed he would get in order to kick us out. We have been lucky to find another unit which is not too far away but the cost of moving plus security alarms and cameras is something we could do without in the current climate.
Wormella
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Looks like substantial work happening in the old Laura Ashley shop, lots of interior walls to break up the space.
Looks like it's going to be a vets - https://www12.staffordbc.gov.uk/onl...ctiveTab=summary&previousKeyVal=001KTLPFLI000
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gon2seed
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Can't believe I'm alone in seeing this as promising, and a good news story? Along with the redevelopment of the Earl Street College, it certainly seems to be Stafford living up to its 'County Town' name; an image not helped by the closure of the Uni'! It's a small step, but for me its light at the end of a tunnel, filled with empty shops, business closures, people living on the street and and the false dawns, of promised redevelopment! So forgive me at getting slightly more optimistic about this development. Of course this building will sit across the balancing lake from the new hotel! .........
What that has never materialised ...... but it was announced 3 years ago with press releases :- https://www.theconstructionindex.co...d-hotel-planned-for-old-stafford-rugby-ground BUT, the old Rugby pitch is still sitting there with its non operational floodlights!Oh sh*t am feeling gloomy again! Can anyone cheer me up? ............ PLEASE!
Cue
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Nothing screams “you can trust the warranty” like a PVC banner and a shop that will be empty the moment the grace period expires for business rates
With all the colleges expansion plans they probably should have purchased the old university site.
Personally I never understood why staffs county council didn’t but it and create a Stafford 6th form centre. The current situation for a level provision isn’t great.
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Personally I think the old rugby club should be retained for sport. In 2003 the borough council commissioned a report which highlighted a number of areas where Stafford was lacking.Can't believe I'm alone in seeing this as promising, and a good news story? Along with the redevelopment of the Earl Street College, it certainly seems to be Stafford living up to its 'County Town' name; an image not helped by the closure of the Uni'! It's a small step, but for me its light at the end of a tunnel, filled with empty shops, business closures, people living on the street and and the false dawns, of promised redevelopment! So forgive me at getting slightly more optimistic about this development. Of course this building will sit across the balancing lake from the new hotel! .........
Oh sh*t am feeling gloomy again! Can anyone cheer me up? ............ PLEASE!
Most notably in the number of 4g football and grass pitches available and the inadequate state of hockey provision.
In 2019 the bc again commissioned the same authors to write another playing pitch strategy which states that the situation in Stafford had deteriorated with the only notable exception was with the rugby provision.
Since that report was released we now have no suitable hockey pitches in Stafford. It can’t be right that our local teams are forced to play in nearby towns.
For me the rugby club should be turned into a hockey stadium so we can have hockey back in Stafford.
Cue
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Doubt either had the money for it tbh.
They’re trying to shift the Octagon now as they haven’t a clue what to do with it
Mudgie
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
The reason Stafford got
Noah
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Someone I knew got to Cambridge in the early '60s, pissed around a lot and at the end of the first year got a "special pass" - ie a fail in anyone else's language. Wrote to the firm who was sponsoring him saying he'd got a special and they replied that that was wonderful and they were near doubling his grant for doing so well.
Tumble weed
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This is definitely a front for something, a few old mattresses and junk in the window is not a "bed factory". Ironically, the landlord has a note in the window saying the previous occupants were kicked out for a "grow", and the police didn't care even after he warned them and is waiting an apology or something.
Either way, we don't need this junk on the high street.
Cue
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Agreed, it does look hella suspicious, or at the very least “bargain bin”
A proper sign is not going to break the bank
Feed The Goat
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"All the wickedness you do, the herb reveal itself to yourself, your conscience, show up yourself clear, because herb make you meditate. Is only a natural t’ing and it grow like a tree.”
is too much to get on a sign. A roll out banner is much better
is too much to get on a sign. A roll out banner is much better
Bodger
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If you use an empty shop for storage then you are exempt from Business Rates for a period hence this one, Millets and the old Carpet Shop down Salter Street. Just a fiddle that needs stopping!
Tumble weed
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The old Millet's started being turned into apartments, I can only assume just like the old library , and the old cinema, the developers ran out of money. All being left in a much worse state I might add.