pavarotti1980
Striker
Farming parking out to private companies and stupid pricing structures by LAs in equal measure
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Spennymackem1981
Winger
grim as fuck call centre workers you usually find them in Revolution on a Saturday night spunking all there wages on fancy cocktails
ravydavygravy
Striker
Shit-high-street-shocker.
See also every other town in the North.
See also every other town in the North.
Indeed.And it only seems to be getting worse.
Perhaps people will go back to bricks and mortar once net based shopping loses its lustre.
Gerrin
Winger
I can't see that happening. Getting easier and easier to buy online and just arrange a local pickup somewhere if your not going to be in.
wash
Midfield
Walked through it 40 years ago. It was a shithole then
pavarotti1980
Striker
Can you realistically see a reversal of internet retail?
I live in hope. Vinyl?
pavarotti1980
Striker
Vinyl has always been massive with proper music nuts. Its just the latest fashion along with gin and clean eating for everyone else to pretend they are trendyI live in hope. Vinyl?
Should build a geet big fuck off concrete car park on top of it with a restaurant at the top, and walls just low enough for overweight gangsters to be thrown off.
Shandy drinker
Striker
yes as its nothing new
Look at Brian Mills which was the early form of mail order shopping
pile of bricks now
not really the ones that have embraced local independents are still doing ok
It's the ones that sold out to chains and retail parks that are and will suffer.
it's actually better now than it used to be
been desolate since the metrocentre opened, maybe even before then
been desolate since the metrocentre opened, maybe even before then
Shandy drinker
Striker
or standing outside, wherever they are, smoking.
Hoon
Winger
That horrific statue outside the Metro still there? Genuinely one of the worst things I've ever seen.
It's hard to imagine what else could be done with the town centre tbh aside from the council trying to make it into some haven for independents. Hopefully the new arena being built on the quayside might breathe a bit of life back into it.
Their can't be many towns who have their centre less than a half hour walk from the centre of a city. Especially in a region where we're not known to be flush with disposable income.
It's hard to imagine what else could be done with the town centre tbh aside from the council trying to make it into some haven for independents. Hopefully the new arena being built on the quayside might breathe a bit of life back into it.
Their can't be many towns who have their centre less than a half hour walk from the centre of a city. Especially in a region where we're not known to be flush with disposable income.
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Cypher
Striker
I traveled through just to see it intact and then being demolished before a piece of cinematic local history was gone forever. That restaurant never even opened despite being completed due to concerns over it's structural integrity.
Wilfy
Striker
Fulwell High Street is positively thriving mate.
jackynutmeg
Striker
na...but i did open it
HABA87
Striker
Harbour Boy
Winger
Can't think of many, maybe West Bromwich?
Not as close but I bet Bury, Oldham and Rochdale suffer being so close to Manchester. Birkenhead also is close to Liverpool
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citybythesea
Winger
Starting a "south of tyne devolution" deal separate from the north would be a good starting point to revive gateshead's town centre fortunes. More control over their own affairs
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