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ffm in reply to @atz

I love the idea of this, hopefully town planners are coming to realise the post-war high streets are shit

I'm not sure concentrating commerce in the hands of loads of edge/out of town retailers is any better, it just moves the issue from one place to another.

I'm not sure how you get to this conclusion from that article. The aim isn't to drive any shops out of the town centre, in fact existing shops in the shopping centre are being offered a relocation a hundred metres down the road. The aim is to create a space which attracts people to the town centre to for social or other non-shopping reasons e.g., the library, and then drives commerce by those people shopping while they're there.

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atz in reply to @ffm

I’ve seen it in other places where a change of environment doesn’t change the shops or the sustainability of the chains. It was a general comment rather than for this specific development

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