Dear Sir,
What a shambles our town centre with the exttra charges on shopkeepers. Will it end up like a Ghost Town, charity shops and take-aways? Aycliffe’s new town centre will have no shops and we will have to travel to Darlington or Bishop Auckland as the shopkeepers are being driven away.
Could the industrial estate be turned into a Teesside  Park shoppping area? The Police Station is on the industrial estate  so why not? Flatten the present White elephant and turn it into a large car park – that will be two problems solved, parking and shopping. I have not been to the town centre for sometime  as I kept running into problems being in a wheelchair. Someone else does my shopping elsewhere and delivers it to me.
What does the Council think of this fiasco?  I know a lot of people who used to travel a long way to Aycliffe because we had the best market in the area,  Where is the market?
Bigger is not always  better, posher is not always economical, and change is not always for the best!  A Town Centre with no shops is useless.
As a child and coming to Aycliffe it was always a busy shopping centre.  Now you see very few people and not crowded as back then.  I  voiced the opinions of  quite a few  concerned people.
Sheila Carrick