I agree with that but the fact of the matter is that it is here with us now and we have to live with it. I am just fed up with the existing town centre being part of a huge building site for months on end. The cinema was just a nightmare in terms of road closures, the wooden shuttering and the private contractors being allowed to do whatever they wanted. It still isn't how the planning design was produced, the proposed glass frontage has never been installed and there is a bland wall in its place. Northbrook Street is the same. Hoardings and temporary footways and a huge ugly canvas canopy over the lot. Newbury shouldn't be allowed to be taken over by developers like this it is detrimental to the local existing trade and an eyesore. The icing on the cake, the early closure of the Parkway bridge to suit, once again a private contractor and encouraged by WBC. Try leaving a skip outside your house for a couple of days.
One of the many criticisms I hear is that WBC are controlled by developers not the other way round. Be interesting to research all developments over the last ten years to find out just what differences there were from what was planned to how the actual finished development looked?
When parkway opens fully there will be more choice of shops for those who migrate from this area to other towns and if the marketing is done correctly then this should resurge Newbury. This in turn will entice other retailers to take up vacant premises with the likes of Primark looking very closely at the town
Why would people who migrate to other areas shop in Newbury?
This in turn will entice other retailers to take up vacant premises with the likes of Primark looking very closely at the town
Let's hope that Primark, if they want to set up in Newbury, will settle in the Kennet Centre otherwise we will have yet another anchor store in the Parkway development. It would be great news for the shopping south of the waterbridge if their choice was the soon to be deserted KC.
When parkway opens fully there will be more choice of shops for those who migrate from this area to other towns and if the marketing is done correctly then this should resurge Newbury. This in turn will entice other retailers to take up vacant premises with the likes of Primark looking very closely at the town
Why would people who migrate to other areas shop in Newbury?
Nor will we have when it opens, it is a John Lewis at Home store, not the full monty. As you are being a little pedantic then I thought I might be as well.
Nor will we have when it opens, it is a John Lewis at Home store, not the full monty. As you are being a little pedantic then I thought I might be as well.
I wasn't being pedantic, the statement "we won't have many different shops" is untrue given John Lewis, Paperchase, H & M, Topshop and Lakeland to name a few don't currently have shops in Newbury.
I wasn't being pedantic, the statement "we won't have many different shops" is untrue given John Lewis, Paperchase, H & M, Topshop and Lakeland to name a few don't currently have shops in Newbury.
I wasn't being pedantic, the statement "we won't have many different shops" is untrue given John Lewis, Paperchase, H & M, Topshop and Lakeland to name a few don't currently have shops in Newbury.
Just wait until existing shops close when Park Way opens due to lack of footfall in KC and other parts of town and let me know how you feel about it then. You can talk it up all you like but we know from experience that Newbury has done too little too late as usual to make a town that is worth visiting for a retail experience. You cannot have a town that is run by a small clique and no infrastructure that is giving priority to developers to concrete over any spare space with no regards for facilities and expect it to cater for all its residents needs. It will become a town of residences but if you need more than grocery shopping then you head out of town.
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