Call for Christmas cheer on Burnley's car park charges (From Lancashire Telegraph)

TOTALLY RIGHT!!! . . . but why just Christmas?

The LT needs to check its information and do proper research on these stories - parking is NOT free after 6pm in Burnley's council run car parks. Changes were made earlier in the year to charge up until 9pm, rather than having the previous 6pm cut-off. This means that shoppers who use these car parks after 6pm, for example to do late night shopping on a Thursday evening, will be charged!

...and as an added extra, the car park on Curzon St that is supposed to become a shopping centre next year, well Burnley Council put in a planning application last week to continue using the site as a car park for another year! Soon there'll be plenty of places to park but nowhere to shop once you've done so, then they'll make parking free to attract shoppers like Accrington does. I bet that the new stores at Charter Walk will be built and opened before a brick is laid by Henry Boot on Curzon St. We've ben waiting years for this development now- we don't know when/if it's starting, we don't know of any other stores interested let alone signed up other than Primark and Next and the scheme doesn't even have a name, but then again Burnley Council are involved so are we surprised?

I remember walking out of the Pioneer supermarket.My son was in his push chair.He leaves school next year.That is how long we have been waiting for the ite to be used for something other than a car park.
He will be a pensioner before he can shop there at this rate.

Mister Red wrote:
I remember walking out of the Pioneer supermarket.My son was in his push chair.He leaves school next year.That is how long we have been waiting for the ite to be used for something other than a car park.
He will be a pensioner before he can shop there at this rate.

Of all the large towns I've visited with a population of over 70,000, Burnley is the only one with, 1) No inside mall 2) No department store like Debenhams, Beales, Bhs or House of Fraser 3) No stores like Primark, H&M, Republic, Blue Inc, Topman or Bank. Alot of open-air malls were built during the 60's but they've been converted to indoor malls except Charter Walk. From what I've heard, Debenhams wanted to come to Burnley way before The Oval scheme but the council opposed it. Burnley Council are the freeholders of Charter Walk, and it's because of their' accessibility policy that the centre has never become a "mall" as it would restrict access and through-transit. Burnley Council could have worked harder to keep Debenhams involved in The Oval, but they didn't, and even now, they've told Henry Boot that they can't start construction on The Oval until they have "x amount" of tenants signed up- this isn't the way to work, they've got anchors and planning permission, the start of construction is usually the catalyst to attract stores, not the other way round. To sum up, the only thing holding Burnley town centre back is the severely outdated council, a council that wrongly thinks that Burnley folk want to preserve awful parts of our past such as Weavers Triangle (which looks no different than it did over 20 years ago when nobody wanted it either.) I want a modern town centre and less ugly mill chimneys and half derelict weaving sheds. Burnley Council you have no idea what Burnley people actually want/need, councillors like Roger( I''m a local historian don't you know) Frost and his ilk have it so wrong, sod history...prosper is by progress.