The Range store is one of the best things about shopping in Torquay at the moment and apart from watching our beloved football team is pretty much the only reason I have ventured across from Paignton, but after I was there I actually popped into town so surely that is a positive effect, even though the town is crap.
This news has provoked a backlash against the council as many are annoyed and dismayed by their decision. Do they not want any decent jobs here or large retail spaces being filled. They seem obsessed with turning down companies which will bring more prosperity, more jobs and better wages than anything a few tinpot, crappy small businesses in an already devastated, crumbling town ever could.
There are now two Herald articles, both carrying many comments about the lunacy and dislike of this decision.
As some have said the reasons the town is failing is hardly out of town retailers fault, if anything these stores are the only good thing about shopping in Torquay, some reasons given that the town is awful are -
Rows of closed shops and charity shops that the council are so concerned about. They should have thought about the effect Factory Row, Shrublands alcoholic facilities, drug rehab facilities, sex offender relocation etc around castle circus has on Torquay town centre.
Torquay town has nothing to offer, unless you want a coffee or a phone. Also the car parking charges.Torquay town centre is a disgrace, and who is to blame for that, you people in office have no idea except when it comes to destroying towns.
I was born and bred on Torquay and the last time I visited the town and harbour area I was so embarrassed at the state it was in I vowed not to return.
Torbay council need to get there head out of the bloody sand the range has created jobs in the area and wants to create more how can they do that when they come up against a brick wall the range brought me back to Torquay shopping i stopped coming cos it is so full of charity shops £1 shops and junk shops its almost as if they wont be happy till they have killed the town what happened to the old adage there is nothing wrong with a bit of healthy competition
Is Torquay going to be a family tourist town and business zone or is it going to stay a drug and benefits zone. How about a bit of honesty Torbay Town Council and The Herald.
So you can't sell the products people need because it may damage the high street (of charity shops and empty buildings) but you can site drug rehab centres, Factory Row, Shekinah projects, alcoholic rehab, criminal and sex offender relocation around our tourist town centre. You can hand out methadone at designated methadone pharmacies around Castle Circus, and turn around and say these have no effect on trade and tourism. We simply have no faith in our town council or our local press anymore.
Torquay town does have a Wilkinsons, Argos and a Primark but that is about all they have to offer really so what the hell are they thinking.
Here are the Herald articles, please read these and the comments with them, it would be a travesty if those poor people lost there jobs as we really cannot afford anymore unemployment here. -
http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/F ... l#comments
http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/T ... story.html
Somebody has also started a Facebook campaign to Save The Range and good on them, there has been a massive response already in just a few hours. Please click on the link and like this page, there is also a petition to sign against this action happening.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SAVE-The ... 3049975575
Torbay council are a bloody disgrace, lets show them what we think of them and try and save these peoples jobs.
