dippyhippy Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 I see that Pound World is opening on Thursday, next to Lidl, on the Brook Retail Park. We seem to have quite a plethora of choices now for spending a pound......Pound Stretcher, Pound Land and Pound World.
Clarkester Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 I'm thinking of opening a shop selling cheap tat too... I'm going to call it: "Clarkesters 98p Emporium" Yeah, you heard it right Pound Land! I'm going to under cut you by 2p!! All I need is: A shop... Some tat to sell... And a couple of rolls of 2p's... Sorted!
megilleland Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 I see that Pound World is opening on Thursday, next to Lidl, on the Brook Retail Park. We seem to have quite a plethora of choices now for spending a pound......Pound Stretcher, Pound Land and Pound World. How long do we have to take this pounding?
dippyhippy Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 I can see no change on the immediate horizon Megilleland! My money is on this situation continuing! Clarkester, I'll just put my two pence worth in......sounds like a plan!!
Aylestone Voice Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 Spend a pound! If only we had somewhere to spend a penny!!!
dippyhippy Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 Ah Aylestone Voice! If we had somewhere to spend a penny, we'd be quids in!!! That's it now. Promise!! (Megilleland started it!!)
stupidfrustration Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 So - Debenhams is empty - and the pound shops are expanding. Its a sign of our times in Hereford.
dippyhippy Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 Is Debenhams empty then?? Don't tell me the honeymoon period is over already??
stupidfrustration Posted October 6, 2014 Report Posted October 6, 2014 Go have a look yourself. Ive been in a couple of times for a few bits for the house and ive honestly never seen more than 50 people in there in the last month.
Colin James Posted October 8, 2014 Author Report Posted October 8, 2014 Another pound store opening next to Lidl on the Brook Retail Park next to KFC I see. This one is called Pound World Hereford will soon be known as PoundTown
ragwert Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 Another pound store opening next to Lidl on the Brook Retail Park next to KFC I see. This one is called Pound World Hereford will soon be known as PoundTown They have just been stopped from advertising everything in store £1 after they were found selling items for more than a £1
dippyhippy Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 The next one to open will have the name... Around-a-pound! All bases covered!
dippyhippy Posted October 9, 2014 Report Posted October 9, 2014 Another pound store opening next to Lidl on the Brook Retail Park next to KFC I see. This one is called Pound World Hereford will soon be known as PoundTown Keep up Colin! I posted that on Monday......ten posts above yours!! Hope you had a good holiday!
megilleland Posted October 11, 2014 Report Posted October 11, 2014 Thursday 9 October 2014 in Hereford Times Letters Wrecking our historic city SIXTEEN empty shops in High Town. Some of these have moved over to ‘you know where’. Widemarsh Street and High Town messed with bird droppings and litter, often a most unattractive sight. Burnt buildings under scaffolding for four years and no pressure exerted to obtain rebuilding. The Butter Market in a dire state of neglect and lacking basic facilities. Hereford’s traders bearing the full rates burden while others elsewhere have a three-year rates holiday. Street cleaning twice daily in the Old Market; once a week if you are lucky in the old city. Public toilets shut, so visitors can cross their legs or just go home. Who wants to visit a historic city, when cheap retail and loads of coffee are just across the road? Dastardly plot to destroy High Town and move its retail elsewhere? It may not be intentional but that is the effect of what is happening. HUBERT PORTE Madley
megilleland Posted October 11, 2014 Report Posted October 11, 2014 In Management Today by Jack Torrance Thursday, 09 October 2014 The Great British High Street Is Disappearing More shops than ever are lying empty despite the improving economy. If anyone thought that the accelerating economy would save the Great British high street then figures released today should make them think again. Data from PwC and the Local Data Company show that 3,003 shops closed during the first half of 2014, an average of 16 per day. Though better than last year’s daily rate of 18, the number of new shops opening has fallen, meaning a net loss of 406 shops in the six months to June, compared to 371 in all of last year. The figures aren’t likely to improve any time soon – the figures do not account for the recent downfall of Phones 4u, the majority of whose 700 units have not been reoccupied. London and the east of England were the only regions that didn't see an overall decline while the north-west and east midlands were hardest hit. It's not like there's a lack of desire for these units; many ecommcerce companies would jump at the chance to gain a physical presence. But faced with landlords unwilling to offer competitive rents and a business rates system which unfairly penalises the high street, the numbers often just don't add up. The nature of the shops that remain is also changing. DVD rental shops have virtually disappeared and building society branches, clothes shops and pawnbrokers are also shrinking in number. In their place we're seeing more coffee shops, restaurants and bookmakers. 'We're heading for a High Street based around immediate consumption of food, goods and services or distress or convenience purchases,' said Mark Hudson, retail leader at PwC. 'I'm not sure that's what customers really want - but consumer and business economics are pointing in that direction at the moment.' Separate figures from Experian yesterday appeared to support this, showing a 186% rise in convenience stores, a 173% rise in tattoo parlours and a 114% rise in the number of gyms. Experian senior consultant Richard Jenkings said, 'The high street has clearly become a more social environment, with more restaurants, cafes and leisure facilities emerging up and down the country. We have seen a clear expansion in the number of retailers where the customer actually needs to be there in person to enjoy the experience, such as cafés, health clubs and even tattooists.' The latest planning application for an amusement arcade in Commercial Street supports this trend.
ragwert Posted October 11, 2014 Report Posted October 11, 2014 Jack Torrance hit the nail on the head with his write up in Management today & why we complain about empty shops is beyond me as there simply is not the need for most of them.Take out coffee shops,phone shops,charity shops and the City Center would be three parts empty would it not.The way we shop,what we shop for and where has changed and has been doing so since the arrival of Supermarkets & the internet
stupidfrustration Posted October 11, 2014 Report Posted October 11, 2014 You are of course correct Ragwert - there are towns around the country that are mixing up more residential in town centers - I personally think we should do the same.
Denise Lloyd Posted October 12, 2014 Report Posted October 12, 2014 Yes I agree if I was a youngster looking to buy my first property it would be amazing to live in High Town. Naturally assuming that it had had a massive clean and was buzzing.
dippyhippy Posted October 12, 2014 Report Posted October 12, 2014 It would need to be affordable though - The Conservative Club in East Street has recently been redeveloped into apartments. Prices are around £150,000 for a one bed flat. I believe the flats where the old Green lands building was in Wide marsh Street are also pretty pricey. These sort of price tags put them beyond the reach of many folk -particularly first time buyers -who like the idea of city centre living, which is a real shame.
megilleland Posted October 12, 2014 Report Posted October 12, 2014 How Many Homes Are Empty? 635,127 empty homes are currently empty in England according to the 2013 Empty Homes Statistics The latest (October 2013, published March 2014) empty homes statistics show that of these, 232,600 are long- term empty (meaning they have been empty for more than six months). Herefordshire Unitary Authority Total Dwellings 81,296 Number Empty Homes 1,720 Long Term Empty Homes 787
Denise Lloyd Posted October 12, 2014 Report Posted October 12, 2014 and there's a massive national house shortage duh
dippyhippy Posted January 10, 2015 Report Posted January 10, 2015 There are "Closing Down Sale" posters up in the windows of Milletts in Eign Gate. Anyone know anything about this??
Colin James Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Posted January 10, 2015 There are "Closing Down Sale" posters up in the windows of Milletts in Eign Gate. Anyone know anything about this?? Oh no more bad news. I was only walking through Eign Gate last week and went into Millets, there was no signs up then, what a shame.
dippyhippy Posted January 10, 2015 Report Posted January 10, 2015 It is a shame. However, to balance that.....two new shops have opened in Widemarsh Street recently. A stationary/craft shop, and also the guys who own Berry Red up Church Street, have opened a second shop. In Church Street itself, another couple of new shops have opened....and when I walked down earlier, it does appear that all premises are now open and trading, which is brilliant! The guys who had the tobacco stand in the Butter market, who had taken over the shop on the corner of Widemarsh Street and Bewell Street have now moved BACK to the Buttermarket. They told me that although footfall was good, it was just too expensive to stay there.
dippyhippy Posted January 10, 2015 Report Posted January 10, 2015 In addition, Topshop will be closing it's doors for good quite soon. Leaving another empty unit in Maylords. It's interesting to see, Colin, that you started this thread just over a year ago with a count up of the empty premises. It would perhaps be an idea, to repeat this exercise, and compare the two figures??
Colin James Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Posted January 10, 2015 I will try and find the time to run the same exercise. Okay, I have good news and bad news, good news is that Millets is not closing down permanently, they are merely closing for a refurbishment. Bad news is that SuitU and Top Shop are closing their stores in the town centre.
Ubique Posted January 10, 2015 Report Posted January 10, 2015 Some 4 years ago Mrs Ubique was a volunteer at the Barnados Charity Shop opposite the Post Office when the Charity closes the shop telling the volunteers that the rent had increases too much for the charity - you will know that the shop is still empty so the owners have lost 4 years rent.
Ubique Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Noticed today that the Costa Coffee in the Maylord is moving to a location in High Town opposite Starbucks , near to the Apple shop.
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