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Can we change Aberdare Town Centre?
Today the 'Portas Pilots: Prospectus' has been published by the Government, its details how towns can be included in a pilot scheme following the recommendations in Mary Portas review publish last year.
The pilot scheme are looking for towns to take part that have ideas and buy in to change the way the town centres operate and making them places that people truly wish to visit and be a part of: a true community of change.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/regeneration/portaspilotspros...
Do you think we could do this in Aberdare?
Bids need to be in by the 30th of March 2012 and need to include:
- a short video submission in support of your application
- Who will lead your pilot
- Which local authority will be the Accountable Body (a confirmation
- letter from the local authority and an accompanying statement on
securing value for money for taxpayers in the use of the grant) - How your partnership proposes to use the grant
- An outline of the key priorities for your pilot
- How your pilot meets the criteria, demonstrates its suitability for
funding, and meets the need for additional impact - How your pilot will deliver transparency in the use of the grant
I'd be interested to learn if a few of us from residence (shoppers), trade and local government to come together to put in a bid for our town centre, putting politics aside and trying to do something for the good of everyone.
Feel free to contact me by e-mail andrew@aberdareonline.co.uk
You can read a little more about the pilot scheme and more about the review on Mary Portas' website www.maryportas.com
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There is one big obstacle to
There is one big obstacle to anything that improves Aberdare town center, and that's the local council, who are anti-business, and have no interest in seeing anything that improves the area and fosters business.
This is the way they have been for as long as I can remember. Ask any of the traders in Aberdare, or the local indoor market, and they'll tell you straight that the local incumbents on the council act against the fostering of business.
If anyone still doubts that, there is one issue that will remove all such doubt, and that's car parking charges. It can cost you up to £11 a day to park next to the bus station. If that is not a burden on businesses in Aberdare then I don't know what is.
Perhaps its time that the
Perhaps its time that the community went above and beyond, doing something that will make a change in Aberdare. I understand that some may not like change, for some it will mean losses, but that surely must be acceptable for the benefit of the whole community?
And... I agree the £11 parking charge is an incredibly stupid thing to introduce and there has been previous discussions on here about it. Could the £11 charge be an effort to get people using public transport and not their cars maybe? If so are there not better ways of going about this?
how about pull it down and
how about pull it down and start again