Letter: Parking spaces loss will be end for Church Stretton market
Thursday 15th December 2011, 8:19AM GMT.
Shropshire Council’s scheme to reduce the number of parking spaces in High Street, Church Stretton, will result in shops closing and the loss of the Thursday general market whose customers will have nowhere to stop to collect their shopping.
The scheme is being financed by the Market Towns Improvement Fund – yet ironically, once implemented, will result in Church Stretton no longer having a market.
Traders say that if it goes ahead they will no longer come to the town.
Nobody, including the council, saw fit to consult the market traders and one can only wonder how such a crass mistake was considered to be of any benefit to the town.
W F Kerswell,
Picklescott
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Car parks (paying) always spaces which is good news to those staying a few hours. On Roadside parking free is also ideal for 30-40 mins,Their no parking issues in church stretton this is just a lets get loads of money scam ,
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There are no parking issues in Church Stretton at the moment and there won’t be with the removal of a whole eight on-street spaces from the High Street!
The reason this is being done is to widen the pavements, which really do need widening.
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Behave pavements need widening?? why? they are hardly heaving with pedestrians are they? they are wide enough.
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We’re talking about the loss of a whole 8 (yes – eight) car parking spaces. Eight. You’d think the Council are proposing to erect the Great Wall of Stretton, the way some of the town’s traders are reacting. Get a grip.
As for the market in Church Stretton: it’s rubbish.
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Yes get a grip Henry leave a few free parking spaces , YES A WHOLE 8 PARKING SPACES , widening pavements biggest joke yet, they are wider their than in most towns.
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This will be the start of the end of church stretton. I am a trader , it is obvious that Henry is not ..hope he likes it when there are no shops left in the high st… and it turns into Craven arms
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