IN FAVOUR

Possibility of employment (6)

May stop people shopping out of town (5)

More footfall in Town (4)

May bring more people to Wels pool (4)

May help High Street as a spin off

More shopping choice (4)

A new face for visitors

Brand Names important to help Welshpool

Attractive scheme (2)

More business for the Town (4)

Bus/coach parking (4)

Could revitalise Welshpool

The canal walkways

The need to keep young people in Town Centre (3)

More free car parking

Investment in the Town

OBJECTIONS
Takes regeneration away from the existing centre (5)

Will possibly keep shoppers away from the centre (5)

Could be a threat to High Street Retailers. (7)

Town Centre can not support more shopping

Could split town (2)

Reduction in Church Street car parking (11)

Distraction form High Street (3)

Do not think it will work as a link

Other shops should be occupied first (including Tesco Shops) (8)

Ruins canal potential

No style or charm

Too many empty shops (2)

Will put off tourists

Small business is being ignored (2)

Road system needs sorting first

More shops will make the one way system more crowded

Worry about access to Town Centre

Will move Town Centre

Scheme will kill the Town

People bypassing Welshpool due to building works

May encourage drunks in picnic and other areas (2)

Coach area not big enough

Pushing parking towards Tesco (2)

Request to create more business for existing shops

No improvement to access Severn Street

Better bus park needed

High Street suffering enough

Must preserve Wharf access

Lorry turning at Mill Lane suspect

Detracts from friendly traditional feel of town

The shops will be the same as anywhere else

COMMENTS FROM WELSHPOOL RESIDENTS RESULTS

IN FAVOUR

More jobs (14)

Must think of youth and the future (5)

More choice of shops (18)

Separates larger shops from smaller shops in centre

Expansion of the Town Centre

Will improve look of town

Keep local spending in Welshpool (11)

Bring more people to or keep people in Welshpool (13) Less need to travel

Need for connection between Tesco and Town Centre recognised

Enhance tourism (3)

Close to Town Centre

Coach parking (10)

Caravan parking (8)

Renovation and Town Centre improvements

Attraction to visitors (2)

More free parking (4)

Chance to improve town

Attracting custom from Tesco to the centre of the Town

Time Welshpool moved into the 21^st century and moved on (2)

Links to Town Centre (2)

Investment in Town good (3)

Eco consideration in development

Progress is what is needed (2)

AGAINST

Shops should be occupied (Town Centre and Tesco Site) first (15)

Concern of empty shops in Town Centre now (5)

Bring rates down in Town Centre to help fill empty shops

Loss of car parking spaces in Church Street (36)

Tourist Information, toilets, coach parking and parking together needed (2)

Not enough coach and caravan parking

Need to cater for youth of town

Make the entire car park by the TIC a bus station

Would prefer smaller units to link with town centre, shops too large

Mill Lane crossing point needed

Crossing of Church Street to Town Centre needs addressing (5)

Need to make town centre more attractive

One way system putting people off shopping

Drawing life away from the Old Town

Poor design

Lack of lorry parking (2)

More lighting needed (4)

Bringing more traffic

Units should be in same line with Tesco shops.

Out or character

Will not keep people in Town Centre (2)

Moving of Town Centre (3)

Local shops affected (9)

Loss of landscape amenity along canal

Unfair to Town traders

Split Town (3)

Killing Welshpool as a Town (4)

Enough café’s in Town already

Where is the café? (2)

Ice rink could be good

Could make centre a ghost town

What happened to open air theatre

Put people off visiting while building works taking place

Put tourists off

Could attract too many people to Town

Affect on canalside (8)

Lorry parking loss

Not very family friendly

Narrow pavemnts

Crossing Church Street between centres

Signage needs improving (2)

Same shops as everywhere else in UK (2)

Why change

Not all issues sorted out

COMMENTS FROM NON WELSHPOOL RESIDENTS RESULTS

IN FAVOUR
Encouraging people to shop in Wels pool (3)

Better choice of shopping (7)

Jobs for the Town (2)

We need larger national shops

Promotion of short stay shopping

Link between centres (3)

Free parking

If other shops go from town such as M and Co it would help

AGAINST

Reduction in car parking (12)

Affect on Town Centre (7)

Link will not work with only Tesco benefiting

Need for a Town Centre attraction

Caravan parking in disabled spaces

Taking people away from the centre

Empty shops in Town (3)

Fill empty shops (including building Tesco shops) first (2)

Closure of small shops due to Tesco

Does not build on Welshpool’s strengths

Lack of canalside amenity space

Unfair competition to main street

Choice of shopping needed such as McDonalds, Argos and JB Sports

Free parking for Tesco and not other places in town (2)

Doe’s the Town need more shops

Bus station needed (2)

OTHER SUGGESTIONS

Could developer fund a Town Centre Manager

Need for a cheaper hotel in Town Centre

It was nice to be consulted (11)

RAR/January 2012

Notes: Votes counted by Cllrs Holloway, Pritchard, Evans, Bleivas and Meredith with the Town Clerk