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Letter: Tell the planners we’re not all shoppers
Wednesday 11th January 2012, 8:00AM GMT.
Why is it that planners – professional and amateur – appear only to consider people as shoppers?
Shrewsbury is a county town offering a range of services and facilities both to the county and beyond. It has also long believed in recycling.
Fifty years ago there were two large hospitals and two local government offices which are now no longer considered for the purpose. One was demolished, the Shirehall, the others were converted into houses and apartments.
Within the loop residents probably do most of their shopping in the town, but they and others come for a number of reasons. They come to worship or to swim, to seek advice or a job. They come to learn or research. To improve their well-being by visiting a hairdressers, a chiropodist or the bookies, not to mention coming for refreshments and to meet family and friends.
Unfortunately the planner’s mindset is copied by schools which send pupils into town to do ‘a survey’. Replies like ‘I walked in, and am going to an art gallery’ do not fit well with them.
Shrewsbury should have an adequate survey done, but it would take too long and cost too much.
So in the meantime councils and developers have to make do with options in the letter columns of the local Press.
Joan Fidler
Shrewsbury
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What a ridiculous self righteous ” tut kids these days ” letter, I bet you that not one single school child drive through town, they tend to use bicycles, buses and their feet so i’m not sure where you got that ‘i walked in’ does not fit well with them comment comes from. And as for Hairdressers, bookies and refreshments, i’m not sure where you can get any of those services from other than a SHOP.
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I’m not 100% sure of the point Joan is trying to make. It seems to be that because some school children approached her about a survey they’d hashed up as part of some sort of school exercise. Becuase of the assumptions they made about people going in to Shrewsbury, Joan wants some un-named organisation to do a survey for no particular purpose.
Rather than firing off the diatribe above, what Joan really should have done is talk politely and patiently to the children and explain that not everyone in the town centre is there for shopping and that they need to reconsider the basis and wording of the survey that they were attempting. This would have contributed to their learning experience and given them something to discuss back in the classroom.
BTW, what does the paragraph about hospitals and government offices have to do with anything? Perhaps the geography lesson has transmuted in to a history lesson?
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Of course a town should be much more than just shops, otherwise it would become a retail park.
A living thriving town must include businesses, manufacturing, creative arts, education, and indeed everything that our modern society requires.
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I think Joan Fidler has a good point – stop being keyboard warriors and having a go.
Most statistics are either massaged or researched from source to appease a bit of propaganda and to make a point
Are you telling me that when the council put up the golf club prices and then came out and said it was being used less was due to statistical research or simply attempts to try and go down the path of closing it down for their own agenda?
The Town centre is the hub of the community. Our community.
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“Most statistics are either massaged or researched”
Where did you get that ‘fact’ from?
;-)
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Planners, imho, are arrogant ideologues who bully their way thru and above public opinion and should leave Salop to thrive on it’s existing infrastructure and halt grand plans to turn it into a metropolis.
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1. Is Salop thriving?
2. It’ll never be a Metropolis!
3. What’s imho?
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In my humble opinion = IMHO
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Thank you.
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