Use site for needed town housing
“Record amounts of clothing, footwear and homewares are being bought online by British shoppers. The internet is accounting for nearly a fifth of all the non-food items bought by British shoppers ...”{The Daily Telegraph 5/11/2013].
According to the “experts” consulted by WDC and Wilson Bowden, we weren’t supposed to reach this level of internet shopping until after 2031.
“Dozens of Britain’s biggest name chains are cutting back the size of their physical store estate as more and more business goes online” {same article]. The Clarendon Arcade, if built as and when it was originally planned, would have been a monstrous white elephant.
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Hide AdOn the other hand, WDC is desperate for acceptable housing sites for the Local Plan.
Why not redevelop Chandos Street and the surrounding sites as high density town housing? That’s what the area was originally and that’s what is needed.
Marianne Pitts, Leam Terrace, Leamington