If built, would you use the Tunstall Morrisons car park to walk into Tunstall Town Center?
If built Morrisons will house not just a super market, but 4 shop units, a petrol station and family pub and more importantly FREE parking. Would you still go into town?
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I don't park in Tunstall town
I don't park in Tunstall town centre at all. I always walk from home. Hopefully if there is free parking, people will come from other towns and districts.
The shops in the town must
The shops in the town must play their part as well by tidying uf their fronts and making their customers feel more wellcomed.
Too often we see litter strewn, dirty frontages and pavements, which I am sure puts people off.
We also need the council to give new business's a starter by not screwing them in rent and rates right from the off.
Until we have a council that serves the people things will be very slow.
I certainly will use the town just as much as I do now.
100% agree Terry. The sad
100% agree Terry.
The sad thing is alot of the buildings are owned by private landlords.
I think we need some sort SLS scheme for shops. any idea how we'd find out who owns each buildings? Time to name and shame?
Matt that is spot on and I am
Matt that is spot on and I am totaly behind naming and shaming the bad ones, as this reflects on all of us to visitors to our town.
What some shops dont realise is that if they look tatty and dirty people don't want to enter them.
I have stood and watched people in the square and people go more into the cleaner shops.
As to the landlords I will check up that point and let you know.
I think you've said the key
I think you've said the key word there Terry.
"I'll use the Town as much as I used to"
I do know if anyone agrees or not, but the business that will suffer the most is ASDA, LIDL and probably ALDI.
If people were shopping at the market or high street before, chances are that's what they'll carry on doing.
It's down to the shops to attract people back.
The problem is a lot of older
The problem is a lot of older and disabled people will just catch a bus down to Morrisons do their shopping there and then catch a bus home and miss out Tunstall altogether,and people from the Longport /Middleport area will go as far as there too and miss out Tunstall. The truth is a lot of people just don't walk they want everything in one place thats why the Tower Square car park is always full, basically people are lazy and won't walk.
Everyone's circumstance is
Everyone's circumstance is different, like you say some people bus it, some people drive, some walk. Some have all day, some have minutes, or an hour. What our town centre should do is reflect that.
Not wanting to give
Not wanting to give Morrison's any ideas, but Sainsburys next door to where I work lay on a free shoppers bus that travels between the store and the local town centre, basically so people don't have to walk a fair distance to the supermarket (because it's on the edge of town) or back up the hill with their shopping bags. What Morrisons should do, is lay on a free bus service between the store and the town centre, thus giving people the best of both worlds, spending time in Tunstall town centre, getting transported to Morrisons for nowt and then back to the town centre. Would work the other way too, people park at Morrisons, jump on the free bus, head into town, come back on the free bus, do their weekly shop and drive home.
Redgirl thats a great idea, I
Redgirl thats a great idea, I would put that to them and they would not be far wrong in setting you on.
Thats what is needed common sense ideas that will be good for the town.
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