Ripley town centre: what does the high street need after the election is over?
The town has some issues to solve before it can get back to healthier days
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Ripley has had its ups and downs in recent history, and like all small towns the past year has been tough for local businesses.
Freewheeling Boris rolls into ‘Super Thursday’, while stumbling Starmer prepares to lick his wounds
It s hard not to pity Sir Keir’s plight – Captain Hindsight if he attacks the Government, or a Tory collaborator if he supports it
5 May 2021 • 9:28pm
The PM was up at crack of dawn to cycle the Stourbridge canal towpath with Andy Street the West Midlands Mayor, in a photo shoot he seemed to enjoy
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Ahead of “Super Thursday”, Boris Johnson descended on the Midlands like a profligate Easter bird inspecting his golden eggs across the region.
He drank a pint in Wolverhampton – soon to be flush with Future High Streets Funding – spoke warmly of the HS2 interchange at Solihull, and tried out the new West Midlands cycle hire scheme. The Tories may have abandoned London, but Boris hasn’t forgotten his eponymous velocipede.
What ailing town of Heanor needs to get back to full health
Politicians have their say on how £8.5m of funding for Heanor should be spent
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The site has stood empty for the years (Image: Derby Telegraph)
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On Boxing Day last year residents and businesses in Heanor got the news that the town was in line for a
Artist s imopression of masterplan AN ‘ambitious’ masterplan to transform Birkenhead town centre has been approved. The 1.4m sq ft development, by Wirral Growth Company, follows an extensive period of consultation and was given the go ahead by Wirral Council’s planning department. It aims to deliver a highly-accessible central business district with new energy-efficient Grade A office buildings set within extensive public realm and green space. The council will occupy part of the new office space as part of its commitment to improving its carbon footprint and reducing occupancy of costly and inefficient buildings within its estate. Further phases will see a new market built.
A Birkenhead Market trader says Wirral Council are ‘destroying the market and many livelihoods’ in relocation plans to temporary market space. In March, Wirral Council proposed plans to open a temporary market space in St Werburgh’s Square for Birkenhead Market traders. However, despite there being 72 traders in Birkenhead, the new temporary space will only be able to hold 24 stalls inside and 24 stalls outside meaning some will be unable to continue trading. Andrew Porter, a trader at the markets, has had his stall for 10 years and says the new plans for the temporary market space are unsuitable for traders. He said: “Not only is there not enough room for all the traders but the outside area doesn’t have protection from the wind and rain which means we would have to set up and pack up every day.