Terminally ill town centre can’t be saved, say Sandgrounders

Southport town centre is terminally ill say fed up sandgrounders.

One man recently decided to walk around Southport to assess the retail meltdown that the country’s towns and cities are experiencing.

In Southport’s case it would appear terminal, he said

Richard Lowe says: “When starting at the recently refurbished market hall there appeared to be 80% of the stalls empty and unoccupied with the surrounding effect of no new retail development around the area except shops that had been bordered up and smothered in litter, and no incentive for a new retailer to even look at the area.

“The upside to this situation are the very successful retail areas of Birkdale and Churchtown, where small independents are flourishing and these are pleasant places to shop, so long may it continue. There now seems no incentive to shop centrally given the depressing nature of the surrounds and the way the town is treated in terms of general dirt and litter.”