Hanley or Not ?
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Hanley-wiped-map/article-11386...
So Jean Ball an American and failed part time assistant town center manager for Buxton(she was voted out) wants to romove Hanley from the map. I have a better idea romover her. As the Meercats would say "simples". Over the years bad planning has been the demise of Hanley and changing its name to The City Center would not help. The town of old has been detroyed and what we have is not a very attractive place to visit that is why people stay away not because they are confused by its name. Look at the towns surrounding our city and see the closer shopping alternatives within a similar distance that they have. Stafford has Wolverhampton & Birmingham . Congleton has Macclesfield , Stockport or even Manchester. Derby has Nottingham or Sheffield. I like my weekends in the peak district only 30 miles from here do the people of Bakewell come to Hanley, no they go to Chesterfield or Sheffield. So Ms Ball go and check your homework as I for one have given you a fail.
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To an outsider this might make sense
If your not local to Stoke-on-Trent, this might make some sense.
However, there are other ways this can be accomplished.
Make better use of signs. Instead of just confusing people with the word Hanley, why not have signs for "The Potteries Shopping Centre", or just plain "Shops".
It's not an earth shattering idea, sign posts have been used for years.
And anyway if Hanley is renamed to Stoke-on-Trent City Centre, then you'r still going to have the same confusion going on, with the town Stoke, and City Centre.
Whats in a Name
I personally, am not really bothered what they call the place. I have a few ideas of my own, but the names would not be printable. If they want, just put up some signs pointing the way to the city centre, then let them. I believe that, these signs exists already? I don’t think that spending the money and wasting the time in officially changing the name would prove to be of any benifit. Call it what you like, but to me it is still a dirty, badly planned, congested place with over priced parking and a poor shopping experience. Even if they dropped a nuclear bomb on it, I doubt that it would cause much more than £10.00 wroth of damage.
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