LETTER: Burnley will be as empty as Nelson
AT the end of this month we will lose Badger Books’ service which is rare, efficient and quick at getting an order for you.
We will miss this shop and its staff and hope they soon find other employment.
Also Past Times in the Mall wasn’t with us long, again a good shop and more upmarket. We can’t all go off out of town for these shops. Before long Burnley is going to look like Nelson – empty.
B. and J. MARSHALL
BURNLEY
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Kevin, Colne
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 07:24 PMI long held the view that from a retailing perspective Nelson is a basket case that could not be revived owing to the continuing rise of the motorcar, the close proximity to Burnley, the rise of the internet and the development of out-of-town retailing at Burnley and Colne. These forces are incredibly strong and I just couldn't buy into the belief of councillors locally that Nelson could have a renaissance. Wishful thinking is not a good basis for strategy, nor public policy. In regard to Burnley town centre I had thought that it would survive and quite possibly prosper but I fear we're close to the tipping point where it might be destined to gentle decline. There are at least five national retailers in the centre where there must be doubt about the outlets surviving in the longer term. In some respects the retailing centre of Burnley and other towns has shifted to the periphery of the centre creating a doughnut centre with a prosperous outer ring and a declining - vacant - core. The current depression - and that is what we are in - is a game changer. For a great many people there is now too much month at the end of the money, and retailing is suffering accordingly. There might be some relief in February and March when people don't have to make monthly payments to Council Tax and the water company, but this will be short-lived as come April higher water bills will be on the doormat and a great many public sector employess will be making larger payments into their supernnuated pension scheme. Prices up, incomes down is an equation that results in misery.
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