Less haste, less speed is the motto in these parts as you well know. A mere three years since I posted that there was to be redevelopment on this site, eighteen months or more since it was cleared but now we are at last at the end of the beginning and a new block of shops is springing up before our very eyes, callooh callay! OK some of the problem lay with the planners who were unaware that this was industrial land (D'oh a scrap yard not give that away?) and couldn't be used for shops. So there was some legal hassle but that's all behind us now. I'd like to say that it will be worth the wait but alas it is to be a dreary unexceptional build that could be found anywhere in a thousand other towns. Meh!
The pawnbrokers and the shop next door seem to have survived all this kerfuffle. I suspect they'll outlast this new development.
Blimey! If I were the council, I would keep a watchful eye on these fellas. They are out for the main chance if they did not know th Building Code.
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