While other Boroughs look at removing
pedestrianisation and scrapping parking restrictions to help their
towns survive Sandwell Labour
have found a new way to reduce the number of empty shops in West
Bromwich Bulldoze them.
Remember Bull Street
This was once the home of a Brilliant
Bicycle shop a furniture shop, and a top class hairdressers but no more will someone invite
Mary Portas
to give advice ? please, please, please.
I have to wonder if they will turn the land into temporary car parks, charge £4 and no one use them like
the Smethwick car park below?
the Smethwick car park below?
Sandwell Tory said
Following Labour's very successful
bulldozing trial, under the failed Homes pathfinder program where
1000's of Sandwell dwellings were bulldozed with lots of Schools
closed sadly causing a shortage of homes and school places just as
Sandwell population was rising,
They now turn their attentions and
their bulldozers to our main town
I suppose the next national High street
figures will show West Bromwich has a lot less empty shops, after
all how can you have empty shops when you have bulldozed them
West Bromwich High Street
No Parking, Shops Closed , but the footpaths very nice
This is a Smethwick car park
Hello Labour ????? this is a simple business lesson
There is a cost point when customers do not use your product. are you OK so far ?.
Double Parking costs, means less people park, reducing your revenue. Do You Get IT ?
Customers then use out of town shopping centres and your Towns die.
Hello Labour ????? this is a simple business lesson
There is a cost point when customers do not use your product. are you OK so far ?.
Double Parking costs, means less people park, reducing your revenue. Do You Get IT ?
Customers then use out of town shopping centres and your Towns die.
A hive of activity at Double the price
A Great Bridge Car Park, fenced off for Years
such a help to local traders
such a help to local traders
West Bromwich High Street
No Parking, Shops Closed , but the footpaths very nice
As usual, you don't have a clue. This is part of the regeneration of West Bromwich and the Eastern Gateway scheme. Why don't you come up with some policies about what you would do, other than your uncosted policy of free parking, and then perhaps somebody might listen?
ReplyDeleteNow now, regeneration ?? please talk to shop owners and market traders about Labour's regeneration ?? and as for Parking who was it that said Sandwell's parking was loss making? I thought that was costed ??
ReplyDeleteand what about concerns from traders in other towns ?? now Labour doubled the cost of parking ??
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/04/01/sandwell-car-parking-charges-are-sent-rocketing/
Did any one in Labour bother to cost the impact of further shops closing due to parking charge increases, with more unemployment or will they say its internet shopping ??
If it is internet shopping how come Merry Hill does so well ???
As for a cost analysis lets start with scrapping attendance at BPA meetings, scrap membership of the BPA, Scrap all parking charges then get Sandwell to rate support business start ups as they can now the law has changed, for clarity I've place a picture of a car park in Smethwick, the Council double the charge and got nothing
Clearly, SMBC do talk to shop owners and traders in West Bromwich. The biggest regeneration of the town centre that has ever happened is underway. There's a new shopping complex, the Eastern Gateway, Sandwell College (built by funding from the last Labour Government), a new leisure centre and new paving that is being partly funded by European funding. Not to mention the work that will start to improve both King's and Queen's square, and the improvements to Sandwell Valley and Dartmouth Park.
ReplyDeleteThe fact of the matter is that your government, yes a Tory government, run by David Cameron, your Leader, will have cut £100 million from Sandwell Council by 2017. Difficult decisions have to be taken, including around parking, but the council, a Labour run council, has protected every front line service to date. No leisure centres or community centres have closed, In fact, they are investing in new leisure centres for the future.
If you are so concerned about empty shops, perhaps you may also like to be reminded of the £100 million that has been taken out of Sandwell with your government's welfare reform on an annual basis. That's £100 million less for the residents of Sandwell to spend in our towns. Yes, councils can do things around rates but, what you will actually find, is that it is rents, from the private individuals or companies that own those shops, that discourage people from starting up businesses.
I find your posts most amusing, as they demonstrate why nobody listens to anything that Sandwell Conservatives have to say. Good luck in your quest to win back all of those seats you lost last time. When you actually find a costed policy on something, do let everyone at Sandwell Council know on this page. You seem to spend all of your time talking Sandwell down with negative campaigning - it really reflects badly on you and your party.
I look forward to this post appearing as a comment.
P.S. when was the last time your party presented an opposition budget at a meeting of Sandwell Council. Again, do let us know.
I find you comments most amusing on how glorious Labour are
ReplyDeleteYou use the phrase “Clearly SMBC etc” which implies knowledge to the fact, if it does, enlighten us all with the discussions held, while your at it please explain the need for shop and market traders to post petitions in West Brom , Wednsebury, Old hill, Cradley,Great Bridge, funny that ???
You never explained why traders leave Sandwell for other Boroughs.
You also mention a new shopping complex ? What are we to assume will become of the High street? are you aware it was once called the golden mile ?
Why is the parking proposed to be free for the first few hours at the new complex and £4 for visitors to the high street?
As for cuts, perhaps you could comment on why Labour continued spending while the economy was faltering in 2007-8
perhaps you could answer who said “Sorry the moneys all gone”?
Perhaps you could comment on why even now, no one trusts Labour with the economy?
Can I also suggest you check on a thing called the West Bromwich Gala Baths, two full size swimming baths Closed by Labour
Difficult decisions do have to be made when a government inherits a mess from Labour, but we are used to that 1951, 1970 , 1979 and 2010 following a Labour Government funny that ?
Did you like the car park pictures ? I bet the the moneys rolling in
and Is Ed a man not for turning on policy ??
I have lived in West Brom all my life. For the past thirty years, vast areas of the borough have lain derelict waiting for something to happen. Shops have been boarded up for years. The debacle in the pedestrian High Street looked like yet another building site. The criticism of the borough is legion; suffice to say no matter where else I go it is an improvement
ReplyDeleteWe live not far away from West Brom in Great Barr. Went to New Square the other day to see what it is like. There is only free parking for two hours at busy times if you spend £5 at Tesco, leaving little time to visit the rest of the town. This means that Tesco will simply suck the life out of the rest of the town and it is no wonder that there are still lots of empty shops still to be let. Perhaps one day they will make the parking free again in West Brom, like it used to be. In those days West Brom used to be a regular trip for us. Until the parking is free again we will not bother as we have other supermarkets closer to us and other shopping centres have free parking.
ReplyDelete