Town needs more top-quality shops
Shoppers June Gibson, Ria Cox and Maggie Webb
SHOPPERS in Wellingborough want more high-quality stores and more shops for men.
Throughout this week the Evening Telegraph has reported on what town businesses, traders and council officials say is needed to regenerate the town.
We also asked a range of shoppers in the town yesterday what they think is needed to boost the town.
Heather Dalton, 22, of Well-ingborough, said: “There’s not a lot of shops for men in Wellingborough, it’s all women’s shops. I also think we need more big-name stores.”
Lynn Thompson, 50, of Gleneagles, Wellingborough, said: “The town definitely needs more men’s shops. We need less phone shops, less estate agents and less card shops. There needs to be more variety for men and women of all ages.”
Ria Cox, of Stanwick, said: “My teenage daughters always find that there’s enough shops for them in Wellingborough.
“I think the town could do with a department store or a Marks & Spencer.”
Maggie Webb, also of Stanwick, added: “I think Wellingborough could do with more high-quality stores, like a Debenhams.”
Pratik Parekh, of Gainsborough Drive, Wellingborough, said: “There’s lots of ladies shops but there’s hardly any men’s – there was Burton, which has closed, but there’s nothing in the shopping centre. We have to go to Riverside if we want some nice clothes.”
Jack Edwards, of Alexandra Road, Wellingborough, said: “Wellingborough has got some positives, it’s got free parking. I would like to see some more fun things like events.”
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Isabel Ringer
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 03:08 PMMy deer Luluclap wot u say is mostlee true bout well-ingborough beeing old&outdated but thenthey have an aging conservative council so wot do u xpect?wot it needs is youngwell-edjewcated folks like u to runthings sew cum 2 a few meatings@ the swanspole &speekup. u will havea gr8 time xpressing your opinnions & i'm shure they wood luv to sea u.
Aliss
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 02:42 PMI think we could benefit from a punctuation and grammar shop. I can't even read that.
luluclap3
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 11:04 AMHang on a min hear Its not that i dont agree on what people are saying about this town i do, but what is their in wellingborough really, Not a lot, do we need all these keaba houses and take aways T-bars, coffee shops and sandwich shops, if u look around the town centre alone you could fill the swansgate, twice over with these, What we do have charity shops phone shops, Their is'nt any coummity pubsclubs in this town no more where you could take your family and kids, like their was, (eg the ex-services men, British Legion) We dont have any good have any good shoe clothes shops, we dont want shoe that are cheeply made and cost loads which fall apart with in a few weeks same with clothes, we want good shops for all men woman and children (from birth up-wards) Even the night life in wellingborough is pants you have to pay to get into places an even then u still get trouble cause people cant handle their drinks, Old and dated is what wellingborough is and it wont change,
Aliss
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 09:38 AMThe town needs a big name store. They won't come, and they've told the council repeatedly it's because there's no adequate retail space. The council aren't doing anything positive for the town centre.
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