Weetabix Kid wrote:Lancaster's a great city if you love dirty, old, unsafe abanded old derelict buidlings......
Here here, what we really what is more modern architectural eye-sores like the new Kingsway development. CC if your relative has to go through endless red tape in order to avoid another building as ugly as the one that has been put up then I for one am glad. Who ever gave the go ahead for that project needs to take a hard look at themselves. Coming off the motorway it is the first thing you notice on approach to Lancaster, and it's an absolute mess.
Lancaster is a small City, we don't need more high street shops part of a national chain that clutter each big City Centre. Next, TK Maxx, Topman, McDonalds, Boots, M&S, BHS, HMV etc can be found in each city/town accross the country. Manchester, Preston, Liverpool and the more established shopping centres have such shops in abundance. If you live in these places, what would attract you to Lancaster when the same shop is on your doorstep? Probably the traditional markets and Georgian architecture, not more crap shops. The City should concentrate differentiating itself from big shopping centres which it can never compete with.
Improve what it already has in terms of shops, expand market days, promote itself better and avoid the clambering for massive retail developments seen everywhere else. Oh, and save millions £££.