Our town centres are dying, because of the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour. All of these parties support out of town retail parks including Rushden Lakes, and all do not support small businesses, including shops, cafes and pubs, in our town centres. I simply do not understand why we are letting our town centres turn into ghost town centres and why are local elected politicians letting our local shops die?
In Wellingborough and Rushden today we have scores of empty units and with more closing every week, how long will it be before we have lost every independent or small chain store from our town centres? The latest victim is workwear and camping shop George Alan who are set to close both of their Rushden and Wellingborough shops by the end of June. In Silver Street, Wellingborough, half of the units are empty and more are closing!
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