There was a petition to the government about the planstheir response:
In terms of government policy on retail, national planning policy in Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres (PPS6) seeks to support a competitive retail sector and meet the needs of the community - but it is not the role of planning to restrict competition or preserve existing commercial interests. PPS6 (paragraph 2.27) also asks local authorities to seek to retain and enhance existing markets and, where appropriate, re-introduce or create new ones, as street and covered markets can make a valuable contribution to local choice and diversity in shopping as well as the vitality of town centres. Local authorities should ensure that their markets remain attractive and competitive by investing in their improvement.
Translation: the area can make more money if we make it like every other bloody shopping centre in England, so we'll do that and screw diversity.
(In terms of government policy on retail, national planning policy in Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres (PPS6) seeks to support a competitive retail sector and meet the needs of the community - but it is not the role of planning to restrict competition or preserve existing commercial interests. PPS6 (paragraph 2.27) also asks local authorities to seek to retain and enhance existing markets and, where appropriate, re-introduce or create new ones, as street and covered markets can make a valuable contribution to local choice and diversity in shopping as well as the vitality of town centres. Local authorities should ensure that their markets remain attractive and competitive by investing in their improvement.
Translation: the area can make more money if we make it like every other bloody shopping centre in England, so we'll do that and screw diversity.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:04,
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No it won't, because goths won't travel from all over the UK to visit it.
Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:05,
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The crucial word there was 'visit'not 'spend money'. Yes, the shops there did okay, but most people browsed rather than spent, and the age of the premises meant that the rents were kept low enough for the low profits to be okay for traders. The new shops will charge more, and make more because they'll sell mainstream stuff that you can buy anywhere - so why not buy it there?
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:07,
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I always shopped at CamdenIt was the only place to get a lot of the stuff I wanted before the net caught on in a big way.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:09,
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True, and I've got a pair of boots that I still wear that I bought there twelve years agobut I don't think I've bought anything there since, despite going a couple of times a year.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the old Camden, but the government is right when they argue that the area is going to make more money.
"Local authorities should ensure that their markets remain attractive and competitive by investing in their improvement." It's all down to what you classify as 'improvement'. Personally I think that they're destroying the character of the last remaining place of goth/rock culture, they think it's making the place nicer for 'normal people', I guess.
(Don't get me wrong, I loved the old Camden, but the government is right when they argue that the area is going to make more money.
"Local authorities should ensure that their markets remain attractive and competitive by investing in their improvement." It's all down to what you classify as 'improvement'. Personally I think that they're destroying the character of the last remaining place of goth/rock culture, they think it's making the place nicer for 'normal people', I guess.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:17,
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Fuck the normal people, they've got the rest of London. Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:19,
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One secret I've learntthere's no such thing as normal people, just weird people who are better at hiding it.
With luck Camden's spirit will be like a bump under the carpet: you push it down in one place and then it pops up in another.
(With luck Camden's spirit will be like a bump under the carpet: you push it down in one place and then it pops up in another.
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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 14:21,
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