Quoted from user23.3

It was a rather tatty car park replaced by a nice piazza.

It just simply wasn't tatty.  It had not been that long from a resurface anyway.  As car parks go it was in good nick.  It had the trees and everything IIRC.

Quoted from user23.3

Now you can argue about the cost, or the need to do it, but you can't say that it looks worse now as the centre piece of the Market Place.

Looks are subjective, although I have to say: I think it is paving 'overkill'.  Rather like painting everything the same colour.  The point is: without spending squillions of pounds, it looked fine as it did.

Quoted from user23.3

It was a rather tatty car park replaced by a nice piazza.

Now you can argue about the cost, or the need to do it, but you can't say that it looks worse now as the centre piece of the Market Place.

How it looks is very subjective. To spend all that money on creating a piazza that no one is using five days of the week and then is covered by market stalls for another day just seems a tad ludicrous to me? No good having a very expensive center piece and no body looking at it or using it surely?   It will be even worse when Park Way opens and footfall falls in the rest of the town.

Lets look at that again: the market Place,  an £800,000.00 empty space.  Endorsed by the Tories and the Lib Dems.

Quoted from Greenham Common

Lets look at that again: the market Place,  an £800,000.00 empty space.  Endorsed by the Tories and the Lib Dems.

I bet it's not an empty space tonight, I bet it's bustling.

Quoted from user23.3

I bet it's not an empty space tonight, I bet it's bustling.

And that is because the council spent £800,000.00 on repaving the surface?

Quoted from user23.3

I bet it's not an empty space tonight, I bet it's bustling.

To be truthful i doubt if many of the clientele who inhabit the area at night really give a toss what it looks like. The presence of regurgitated carrots etc. in the mornings often bare that out.  

Quoted from HJD

To be truthful i doubt if many of the clientele who inhabit the area at night really give a toss what it looks like. The presence of regurgitated carrots etc. in the mornings often bare that out.  

There's far less of that that there used to be, perhaps because it's now a nice looking area rather than a tatty car park.

Quoted from user23.3

There's far less of that that there used to be, perhaps because it's now a nice looking area rather than a tatty car park.

You obviously aren't there before the army of Veolia workers clear it up. That said, I'm sure it is not very different to many towns with an over concentration of night spots in one area.

Quoted from user23.3

There's far less of that that there used to be, perhaps because it's now a nice looking area rather than a tatty car park.

Perhaps if the council were to subsidies the cost of booze we could have the place inhabited by drunks during the day as well then?
That would help make it worth while in spending all that cash.  

Back on track perhaps...
You can't whizz anywhere when they are trundling up and down Shaw and Kiln roads.

Quoted from brian

Back on track perhaps...
You can't whizz anywhere when they are trundling up and down Shaw and Kiln roads.

Those will be roads with a 30mph limit.

Quoted from user23.3

There's far less of that that there used to be, perhaps because it's now a nice looking area rather than a tatty car park.

Perhaps there isn't far less as well.

Quoted from 78

Those will be roads with a 30mph limit.

Actually, 5mph behind the buses. I'm not moaning by the way, I think they are very smart buses and are a really great service. Ten out of ten.