Just for the record...A funding from the regeneration grant for the benefit of, presumably, Ralph Lauren, Jaeger, Dior, Burberry, Aquascutum, Pringle, Yucky Gucci and Gad knows whom else..
Will it bring people into the area? Yes. Will they go anywhere else, i.e. beyond the retail strip on Morning Lane ? Very unlikely to benefit anyone other than the new gentrific coffee shops nearby, nevermind the community. It'll be a self contained reject-shop strip village. Some trade maybe gained in passing for Paddy Power, Coral bookmakers, Iceland or a very big supermarket that ends with O.
The street hardest hit around here is Clarence Rd which is an intermingling of residential and shops, who's damages sustained by the riots were restored by private donation shortly after the event. The only thing they've had to deal with is blocking a bid by paddy power to set up another bookies on it (as if two large ones already in the proximity don't cater). Its time to declare our culture bankrupt if the taxpayer's government is funding haute brands and turning a blind eye to the absolute pointless desperation of bookie shops - You've got to be amazed at the double-standard - isn't street heroin/cocaine illegal ?
Why ?
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