What has this Council being doing to our town? Yes, it is our town and it is high time that they and the speculators and property owners do something to earn the money they are paid to look after it.
The Council have been sitting idly by for years watching the slow and inevitable disintegration as they do nothing to stop the rot other than produce proposal after proposal, no doubt in the hope that someone will believe them.
I have shown more photographs that were taken only yesterday of closed stores in what not so many years ago were part of a thriving hub in the town. Most of the former occupants such as Wickes and Greggs etc., have all gone from the town, but all are still trading elsewhere.
How many more stores will give up before the Council realises that they have to do something to make Bracknell compete with the other towns in the area ? How many residents bother to go shopping in such a drab environment when they can go to lively market towns like Wokingham or Windsor. We have the indoor shopping centre of the Oracle in Reading 20 minutes away and within an hour we can be in central London.
Do not believe the now boring tales of economic hardship, we are talking about some of the wealthiest landlords in the Country owning Bracknell. Do not believe the cries of “now is not the right time”. Now is the right time and every property developer knows this. When you are at the bottom of an economic cycle, that is the time to invest. Prices are low, contracts are relatively cheap and it will take several years before any regeneration is completed and starts to show a return. It would be foolish to develop when times are good as that would take away the very income needed for investment.
So why is everybody sitting on their hands and not doing anything? Could it be that either of the landlords feels disadvantaged or that the Council is making too many demands? Whatever the reason all parties need to resolve their differences and get Bracknell back on its feet.
Bracknell was a leader in its day. Let us make it a leading town again.
“Over time, the environment has become drab and uninviting and Bracknell increasingly fails to attract and retain the quality of retail offer and other facilities that would be expected for a town of its size and prime location within the heart of the Thames Valley.” A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT STATEGY TO SUPPORT THE REGENERATION OF BRACKNEL – Tim Cuthbert, MVA; Jon Freer, Bracknell Forest Borough Council
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