Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 3467
Received: 20/01/2015
Respondent: Mr Ian Aspinall
Totally agree. In towns where too much out-of-town retail development is allowed, the high street gradually declines into a wasteland of vacant, boarded-up units, scruffy fast-food takeaways and betting shops. I've seen this happen over the past 20 years or so in the towns of East Lancashire, where I grew up and still go to visit family, and would hate the same thing to happen to Brentwood.
Totally agree. In towns where too much out-of-town retail development is allowed, the high street gradually declines into a wasteland of vacant, boarded-up units, scruffy fast-food takeaways and betting shops. I've seen this happen over the past 20 years or so in the towns of East Lancashire, where I grew up and still go to visit family, and would hate the same thing to happen to Brentwood.