Thursday, Sep 09, 2010
It tops a league table of 50 ghost towns where the rate of empty shops is increasing
The sun: Altrincham - Ghost town
Historic Altrincham - eight miles from the throbbing city centre of Manchester and once considered "posh" - now has the highest rate of vacant retail units in the country.
Posted by mark @ 09:00 AM (926 views) Add Comment
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1. Ringing Roger said...
The story fails to mention Altrincham's close proximty to The Trafford Centre
2. khards said...
You can add Margate to that list.
3. Daveats said...
Margate is not a Ghost town it is full to the brim with immigrants staying in all them bed and breakfast places that used to be for holiday makers.
4. need-a-crash said...
It is on the list? In fact the only southern town that is.
5. hash browne said...
I live a couple of miles from Altrincham and it has been in decline for years.
Nothing to do with the recession.
More to do with The Trafford Centre, a huge Out-of-Town shopping centre a few miles the opposite direction.
Its the same story for many other towns within a few mile radius.
6. Whispers said...
In Warrington they recently built a brand new state of the art shopping centre why don't the council in Altrincham do the same and they put the final nail in their own coffin when they let the trams come in from Manchester every ten minutes.
7. mark said...
Hash brown
thats the whole idea, places like the Trafford centre and their shops get concessions for the rates, yet the small high street shops don't thus killing them off, probably engineered by the council and big companies
you see the same for adult shops, councils don't really want them so they put the license fees for the shop at high rates such as 40-50k per year, then add that to high rates the shop soon closes.
what no-one wants to understand is these small shops employ more people often pay better wages, better working conditions, flexible employment and always employ local people, above all offer a local personalised service no big shop can ever offer, these small shops are the backbone of any community, however the big supermarkets and chain stores want them all gone, one day we will end up with 10 big shops selling everything..
after all look at the supermarkets moving into home products and electrical items, banking, insurance, telephones, car sales, etc what next?