Market Square voxpop

Northampton Chronicle

Watch Market Square voxpop - Northampton Chronicle on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00How's the business been doing without being in Market Square?

00:06Terrible. Absolutely terrible.

00:09A waste of time. It was supposed to be a 13th century market, not a playground.

00:17They ruined it by changing it originally, the cobbles and all of Market Square.

00:23It was very vibrant when we first moved up here over 50 years ago.

00:27It's taken the soul and the heart out of the town.

00:30Entirely so, and obviously some of the storeholders here are still...

00:36Some of them have gone because of this new refurbishment.

00:40And then new stuff like my parents and dad's here and stuff.

00:44He has his own brewery down at the bottom, requires farm and all that.

00:48I think it might be better for the town.

00:51Might bring in more businesses.

00:54But that's about it really.

00:55It's great, yeah. I'm really positive about it.

00:58Hopefully the Northampton people will be positive about it as well.

01:01And come and support it when it opens.

01:04So I think it's great.

01:05Have you had the chance to have a look?

01:07I've not had a proper look, but the unit we have got looks pretty good.

01:13I think it's more to do with the homestead.

01:16If the council did something about it.

01:21Instead of like they did with Debenhams.

01:24The old Debenhams.

01:25Turned that into uni housing.

01:28Why?

01:29You know, why?

01:30It should be for homeless people.

01:32House them first.

01:33House us.

01:34House the people of Northampton.

01:36Not doing stuff like this.

01:39Brilliant idea.

01:40Good concept.

01:41But the housing situation.

01:43They've destroyed the market itself.

01:46By removing it completely.

01:48Down to the bottom of the town.

01:51They could have continued with it on Abingdon Street.

01:54So that's gone.

01:57Also I suppose the price of the storm treatment.

02:00I think that's another thing.

02:02It looks a lot cleaner and tidier and bigger actually.

02:05And I think they've done fantastic ground work there.

02:08It's taken a long time.

02:09But they've obviously had to do a lot of work underground as well.

02:13So I think it's great the whole thing.

02:16And there's such historic buildings around as well.

02:19What would you get garden shed from Italy when we can make them?

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended