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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 16, 2022 18:01:35 GMT
So depressing. Wants knocking down and replacing with restaurants and bars. Leave shopping in shops to the big cities.
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Post by Boothen on Feb 16, 2022 18:03:45 GMT
Hanley is dead. No shops and even the crappy ones that are still there are slowly closing down due to the council's exorbitant business rates and a fall in foot traffic. A fall that's partly triggered by people not wanting to visit due to the place being filled with violent dustheads, drunks, imported homeless and other assorted vermin that make walking around the place an horrendous experience.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 16, 2022 18:06:14 GMT
Hanley is dead. No shops and even the crappy ones that are still there are slowly closing down due to the council's exorbitant business rates and a fall in foot traffic. A fall that's partly triggered by people not wanting to visit due to the place being filled with violent dustheads, drunks, imported homeless and other assorted vermin that make walking around the place an horrendous experience. Itās not so bad if you walk through it like Richard Ashcroft on the Bittersweet Symphony video.
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 16, 2022 18:21:04 GMT
Shopping centres etc are dying around the world. Hanley (and other cities) need to find ways for revenue beyond these types of employment. Online shopping is just too convenient.
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Post by Davef on Feb 16, 2022 18:49:17 GMT
Silly comment. I'm sure the employees mind. What's the issue with Next exactly?
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 16, 2022 18:53:16 GMT
Silly comment. I'm sure the employees mind. What's the issue with Next exactly? Thereās a much larger one within a mile or so Iād imagine. People who want to go to next go there and park for free
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Post by boskampsflaps on Feb 16, 2022 19:04:13 GMT
I think it needs to be filled with independent retailers. Make it somewhere different than most, maybe even somewhere people are willing to travel to, use Piccadilly as a loose blueprint and offer incentives to get small businesses up and running. Its probably just my tastes but yet another wanna be Trafford Center doesn't appeal.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 16, 2022 19:08:13 GMT
I think it needs to be filled with independent retailers. Make it somewhere different than most, maybe even somewhere people are willing to travel to, use Piccadilly as lose blueprint and offer incentives to get small businesses up and running. Its probably just my tastes but yet another wanna be Trafford Center doesn't appeal. Itāll never happen, trying to do that in Stoke centre at the moment where it may work on a smaller scale but not Hanley for me anyway
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Post by boskampsflaps on Feb 16, 2022 19:32:03 GMT
I think it needs to be filled with independent retailers. Make it somewhere different than most, maybe even somewhere people are willing to travel to, use Piccadilly as lose blueprint and offer incentives to get small businesses up and running. Its probably just my tastes but yet another wanna be Trafford Center doesn't appeal. Itāll never happen, trying to do that in Stoke centre at the moment where it may work on a smaller scale but not Hanley for me anyway No unfortunately I don't think it will but there needs to be some different thinking on what can be done to turn things around, as others have said, high streets are dying all over the place and for the most part Hanley is a clean slate with nothing to loose if it tries something else.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Feb 16, 2022 19:35:43 GMT
Itāll never happen, trying to do that in Stoke centre at the moment where it may work on a smaller scale but not Hanley for me anyway No unfortunately I don't think it will but there needs to be some different thinking on what can be done to turn things around, as others have said, high streets are dying all over the place and for the most part Hanley is a clean slate with nothing to loose if it tries something else. For me it simply needs to stop being a shopping centre, bulldoze it, create a vibrant town centre where people want to go to have a meal and a few drinks. Extend Piccadilly up through to it and people will come to Hanley from outside the area. And itās most likely get rid of the vermin which pollute the town centre at the moment
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Feb 16, 2022 20:18:10 GMT
I think it needs to be filled with independent retailers. Make it somewhere different than most, maybe even somewhere people are willing to travel to, use Piccadilly as loose blueprint and offer incentives to get small businesses up and running. Its probably just my tastes but yet another wanna be Trafford Center doesn't appeal. I live 10 minute drive from the TC and the retail side is also struggling, it's on its arse. Massive units lying empty after Debenhams, Topshop and others have left. People want smaller shops with more choice and individuality. Cheshire Oaks is miles better for this reason.
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Post by heworksardtho on Feb 16, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
Looks like the new multi storey they have built will be a white elephant š Thatās been built as you have to have parking facilities in order to attract events etc for when the new arena gets built What year is that
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 16, 2022 20:45:27 GMT
Hanley's not been the same since Geordie Jeans shut down. And Chawners
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Post by newsteadst3 on Feb 16, 2022 20:47:26 GMT
The oldies /traditionalist will stick to there local towns. You go down Longton on them market days and it's heaving. Can't get a space on big tesco. These people from Blurton,Meir,Sandford Hill,Normacot and even Fenton won't entertain Hanley. I think its funny how people laugh at how Longton is bad (and it is) but it Still takes a good chuck away from Hanley.
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Post by Northy on Feb 16, 2022 20:56:24 GMT
No unfortunately I don't think it will but there needs to be some different thinking on what can be done to turn things around, as others have said, high streets are dying all over the place and for the most part Hanley is a clean slate with nothing to loose if it tries something else. For me it simply needs to stop being a shopping centre, bulldoze it, create a vibrant town centre where people want to go to have a meal and a few drinks. Extend Piccadilly up through to it and people will come to Hanley from outside the area. And itās most likely get rid of the vermin which pollute the town centre at the moment Northwich has turned a couple of large empty shop units into a sticky paws play centre and ice cream farm and cafe, and next door is a puddle ducks baby swimming centre, a Wildwood around the corner and a couple of new cafĆ©s around the new cinema area by th River, things to bring families in. They have an artisan market once a month, and 3 or 4 small new bars, 1 a rum bar, 1 a micro brewery, 1 a small venue with a monthly comedy club and regular bands, just opposite there a new Indian has opened up, K2H who have one in Sandbach, not your standard Indian. There are some empty shops, Burton, New Look etc have closed down, but the town is moving to be more entertaining venues as well as independent shops, 2 small shops, sewing and knitting who hold classes a few days a week, these people may probably go into a cafe after, of which there are a few small independent ones. And parking is free for 4 hours
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Post by teenagefanclub on Feb 16, 2022 21:21:05 GMT
We either go nantwich or leek, loads better shops, some nice places to get some food and parking isn't a rip off
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Post by callas12 on Feb 17, 2022 7:18:40 GMT
Its no coincidence that while the pandemic hit & high Street stores struggled, faltered & started to fade away, which many were beginning to do anyway, Amazon flourished to become an even bigger machine than it already was! & in a way that meant its already impactive hold was such that the gap between online & town centre shoping was growing to an unprecedented level & will continue to do so.
Its been years, & I'm talking 10 possibly 15yrs plus since I last went up Hanley. Used to love a wander through HMV, Debenhams, Mike Lloyd Music Store, Fantasy Land or World I think it was called. Used to like the JJB Sport shop which was opposite to the old 2x storey Stoke shop. The signs of decay were starting to show through then so I can only imagine what it's like now with boarded & locked up shops everywhere, nevermind the raft of ways & strays that now seem to gravitate towards these ghost towns.
Think Internet shopping & retail Park shopping are here to stay & really don't see anyway back for the traditional town centre locations as we once knew them!
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Post by chuffedstokie on Feb 17, 2022 9:30:43 GMT
No unfortunately I don't think it will but there needs to be some different thinking on what can be done to turn things around, as others have said, high streets are dying all over the place and for the most part Hanley is a clean slate with nothing to loose if it tries something else. For me it simply needs to stop being a shopping centre, bulldoze it, create a vibrant town centre where people want to go to have a meal and a few drinks. Extend Piccadilly up through to it and people will come to Hanley from outside the area. And itās most likely get rid of the vermin which pollute the town centre at the moment Judging by the number of appearances on Homes under the hammer anyone watching would think Hanley is 'the' place to be and invest in, that programme seems to spend most of its time somewhere around Stoke.
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Post by ashleyscfc on Feb 17, 2022 12:04:52 GMT
Hanley is dead. Reduce the extortionate unit rents and put some free parking in and itāll soon revive itself, itās so simple itās infuriating. I hate to say it but the council needs to go on a massive compulsary purchase buying spree and level most of the place and start again. It is actually the only way any real improvement will take place. This is what Detroit did once the car industry left. Land/property went to community groups not private developers. Lots of new public parks were opened with lots green spaces. Encouraging of locally owned/ran businesses. Get the young creative kids in to make something out of nothing and show them they can have a good standard of living here, for cheap and make a real difference compared to London, Manchester, Bristol etc. We can be the āanti-hipsterā as it really is pretty gritty round here We havenāt hit bottom yet
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Post by ashleyscfc on Feb 17, 2022 12:06:45 GMT
You only have to look at the comments on social media whenever a story about shopping turns up, be it Hanley or in my experience Cheadleā¦āwhat we need is a good marketā. Someone please invent a time machine for this lot! Absolutely boils my piss, the best thing we can do for Hanley in the short term is to blow up the sentinels building and stop them posting such utter utter shite. This
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