Saving Burnley Town Centre

[Taffy on the wing]

Never been anywhere near a Poundland since I read this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -bags.html

Found this one from later too whilst searching the above which I recalled https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2667363/p ... te-santas/

Oh, and this https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/84897 ... orth-store

It must all be true!.......Some quality publications there.

[Top Claret]

It must all be true!.......Some quality publications there.

Only papers missing are the Guardian and Mirror to make it a grand slam

[Mala591]

Free car parking for up to three hours might be a good start.

[Bosscat]

No, a Korma, he's Indian.

Or a 'Comb over' if he's going bald

[fatboy47]

Nothing new that really,i used to work at a bakery in Rossendale were the first job of the day was arming my self with an hand brush and sweeping the mice droppings off the trays of pies...

Not Howard and Halstead I hope Steve?

My early morning task there was picking up the dead rats that had been poisoned overnight. Usually by the flour store or under the ovens.

Grand.

[Steve1956]

Not Howard and Halstead I hope Steve?

My early morning task there was picking up the dead rats that had been poisoned overnight. Usually by the flour store or under the ovens.

Grand.

Ahhh...did you also have the pleasure of working for Jim Howard,he was alright for a nice couple of quid in the hand when you had pulled your tripe out at work,dont think he would get away with some of the things they did then today,certainly was an eye opener,the flying rats were the worst..shite everywhere

[Burnley Ace]

Free car parking for up to three hours might be a good start.

What will you spend the extra £2.50 on?

[MACCA]

What will you spend the extra £2.50 on?

Where do you park?

£1.50 for 3 hours in a couple of car parks I use, and plenty of free parking 5 minutes walk into the centre.

Parking would help, but also shop quality and not getting drenched is also a bonus.
So much easier going Blackburn where you can shop in the warmth whilst remaining dry, and has twice as many shops. The ones that are the same as we have in Burnley are usually far bigger, meaning a wider choice.

Makes no sense coming off at junction 10 or 11 if you live out of town, when you can be in Blackburn 5-10 minutes later.

There's no appeal to coming to Burnley to fo your shopping unless you live here.

[ClaretAL]

Knock it all down for me and build something akin to a mall like they have down the road.

[Mala591]

Free car parking for up to three hours
Encourage small, independent (interesting) shops with extremely low business rates
Cover the market square with an Eden like glass roof and fill with tropical plants
An art gallery (run by Towneley Hall staff)
An industrial museum
A small park/open area for live music/entertainment
Develop the area around The Inn on the Wharf an make it more touristy

Make the town much less like Blackburn town centre and more like Hebden Bridge town centre.

[claret2018]

I think town centres are going to have to move away from offering just shops to survive. I do almost all my non-food shopping online, or at out-of-town retail parks for anything I don't buy online.

I don't live in Burnley, but if I fancied a day looking round shops, Burnley wouldn't even cross my mind as a place to go. I think I've only ever been there for match days. It's pointless building a mall like Blackburn, if it's only going to have the same shops as ever single other town in the UK.

[Clarets4me]

It would have been better if LCC and the Borough Council had not chosen the " reopening week " to close off lower St James' Street, to traffic for 6 months and in the process ban parking at the nearest 13 " Short stay " street parking spots that are nearest Marks & Spencer, Next and Primark !! This is to apparently widen pavements to improve the look of the approach into the town centre, as well as reinforcing the bridge over the River near Kwikfit. .

They'd have been better off spending the money giving grants to sand/water blast the properties on the right hand side of Westgate as you enter Town, getting B&M to repaint their Building, as well as encouraging the other businesses to keep the grass & weeds in check, including HSS hire, Chorley Nissan, Inspire Drug Rehabilitation Centre etc. The Landlord of the flats in the old " Plane Tree " pub needs to look at the frontage it's a disgrace !!
Get Kwikfit to start weeding their car-park,as well !

[snapcrackleandpop]

It would have been better if LCC and the Borough Council had not chosen the " reopening week " to close off lower St James' Street, to traffic for 6 months and in the process ban parking at the nearest 13 " Short stay " street parking spots that are nearest Marks & Spencer, Next and Primark !! This is to apparently widen pavements to improve the look of the approach into the town centre, as well as reinforcing the bridge over the River near Kwikfit. .

They'd have been better off spending the money giving grants to sand/water blast the properties on the right hand side of Westgate as you enter Town, getting B&M to repaint their Building, as well as encouraging the other businesses to keep the grass & weeds in check, including HSS hire, Chorley Nissan, Inspire Drug Rehabilitation Centre etc. The Landlord of the flats in the old " Plane Tree " pub needs to look at the frontage it's a disgrace !!
Get Kwikfit to start weeding their car-park,as well !

Planing at it's finest, and talking of weeds I have never seen as many the town is full of them, it's a disgrace.

[Inchy]

Sh*t town centres are everywhere. Even most city centres are crap.

Only the biggest hubs (Manchester, London, Birmingham etc)

Not because of covid (although that will contribute) but because of online shopping.

I buy 90% of my clothes online. If they didn’t replace bananas with J clothes I’d do all my food shopping online as well.

It’s the world we are moving towards. The only reason to enter a town centre in the future is to get drunk

[HB Claret]

I’d get Dyche involved - with three keepers available surely he would be saved ?

[Devils_Advocate]

Without the town centre shops we'll have nothing to smash up if the bast*rds ever manage to beat us at the Turf again

[Red Fox Rocks Socks]

The BID do good things in Blackburn town centre I know. People working there who genuinely want to improve it. Is there something similar in Burnley?