Letter: Town needs all the help it can get
Saturday 8th May 2010, 8:21AM BST.
Letter: I was disappointed to read in the Shropshire Star recently that Market Drayton’s newly-formed Saturday market and car boot sale was to close due to becoming too popular. This is amazing.
I can see that local traders might be concerned about a new facility, but they should have greeted the new business as a new opportunity to save their livelihoods, maybe setting up stalls there to sell their products.
I hear from shop owners that the overheads for running a business in Market Drayton are crippling, and have been given as the reason for a lot of the shop closures. Market Drayton needs to take a reality check, as our town is fast becoming a ghost town. We have just seen a 25 per cent rise in car park charges for the town.
Market Drayton seems to have been bailing out the other small towns around us for years. Perhaps it’s time for Drayton to be allowed to prosper instead of charging businesses excessive overheads to run their businesses, only to then increase car parking charges which serves to reduce the number of people coming into the town.
I personally feel that those in office, both in the town and unitary council, need to think long and hard about how to improve our town’s prospects.
Market Drayton desperately needs help from outside companies such as those responsible for the new market and car boot. We need to offer any assistance we can to get these new ventures off the ground, if we don’t want to see the remaining small businesses in our town fold.
I hope the company concerned with the market will reconsider their decision to close the market down, and will be offered every assistance in finding a more suitable site.
Mike Smith
Market Drayton
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Mike, you have hit the nail right on the head. Drayton has fast become a ghost town of charity shops, fast food and drunken vandalism. It’s chewing gum, dog dirt littered main streets need a new lease of life other than some drivel campaign trying to advertise it as a top (shopless) shopping venue.
Higher parking charges now force drivers to block side streets and cause chaos – I have my drive and gate blocked daily by oblivious motorists. Perhaps if the new market had sold discounted alcohol, smuggled cigarettes and knuckle dusters it may have been allowed to stay by the increasing number of goverment fund? Drayton has been slowly filling with work shy folk that relish in their dragged up drucken offspring ruin the town center whislt they spend the majority of their benefit fraud income in the takaways, pubs and increasing number of book makers. Owen Patterson please try and have the police make Drayton a safer place to stroll after dark and kick both the council and police into a proactive rather than reaction control body.
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i have never been to market draton till a fue week a go my friend came to see me she lives that way she ses we got a grate market car boot now macke a day of it come over so we did and what a day we had this market was grate we then went arond the town seen worse we had dinner in town then a bbq back at hears so a fuew weeks later we arang to meet and do it agen so t travel all the way from leek only to fimd a note on the gate closed so i went to my friends did not even go in to town what a shame
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