Issue of the week: The shopping future of Scunthorpe town centre

“Do you think 100 years ago they reported the demise of the horse and cart and the advent of the motorcar with the same negative outpourings as the demise of the town centre and popularity of internet shopping they do today? Maybe it is nobody's "Fault" and just normal progress, Will we in, say 40 years time wonder if people actually left their homes to go shopping and laugh about it.....Just a thought.”

“"by gillian01
"tow center is a gost town not many shops that are any good 3 pound shops thats scunthorpe tow center is all should have been buldozed down and starrt again this time on line like doncaster /hull /grimsby all under cover scunthorpe is rubbish for shopping people wand out off town shopping free car parks every thing together for shopping thats why scunthorpe never kept up with tines b.h.s closed then went to woolworths shop which brought primark thats shopping in scunthorpe we shop in hull /doncaster its better shopping"

What the !!!!
I'm sure she'd tell you something if she could only put a sentence together”

“Given Scunthorpe's self evident and long standing predicament as a failing town; perhaps if over many years, successive Labour dominated Scunthorpe councils had got their priorities in the right order.

And fought for £tens of millions of tax payers/public money to be invested and targetted at Scunthorpe's and its town centre infrastructure, economy, businesses AND jobs.

Rather than Labour's typically hyped up profligacy of a £37 million spend on the Pods, replacing a 25 year old servicable town centre Leisure Centre; £1.2 million on the Club 2000/Church Square fiasco; £15 million on the questionable need for another entertainment venue on top of the Plowright!!??

Notwithstanding that in one of its final acts, the previous Labour run NLC orchestrated and committed £7.5 million from council budgets in a less than "open and transparent"- at the time a so called commercially sensitive and confidential - secret 15 year deal with SMG to run the Baths!!??

And there are those who talk of the Tory mismanagement of NLC being responsible for Scunthorpe's woes! What, when the conservatives are only into their 6th year of controlling NLC since its inception in 1996!! Before that, I am told Labour dominated Scunthorpe Borough councils since time began!!

Only in Scunthorpe!!”

“tow center is a gost town not many shops that are any good 3 pound shops thats scunthorpe tow center is all should have been buldozed down and starrt again this time on line like doncaster /hull /grimsby all under cover scunthorpe is rubbish for shopping people wand out off town shopping free car parks every thing together for shopping thats why scunthorpe never kept up with tines b.h.s closed then went to woolworths shop which brought primark thats shopping in scunthorpe we shop in hull /doncaster its better shopping”

“Please don,t blame the "out of town" retailers, it,s internet shopping, it doesn,t get more out of town than that !”

“SCUNTHORPE R.I.P”