Business Issues, Your Views

Victoria Hall Open Day – 9th April 2016

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• Encourage small/light industrial businesses to Lands End Way.

• After ten years, I have closed my shop due declining footfall and poor parking in Oakham.

• Need a 5-minute drop off zone outside both laundries in town.

• We need DIY stores

• Close the High Street to traffic – make pedestrian zone and café society

• Closed my shop due unaffordable rent/rates

• If building is permitted on allotment land on Brooke Rd next to the rail crossing, traffic trying to get onto Brooke Rd will cause huge problems, esp. at rush hours.

• Need small independent shops.

• Need to encourage many more visitors to the town. Why are there no visiting coaches (cf Melton and Stamford)?

• Rejuvenate the High Street – it looks very sad.

• Use empty shops on a temporary basis.

• Parking for Brooke Rd cars on new allotment development = nightmare.

• Excessive use of traffic wardens – why do they go round in twos?

• Not enough enforcement of parking restrictions – what is the point of all the various markings on the High Street if no one obeys them!

• Keep out fast food chains!

• Need a WH Smiths shop

• Plan future developments – keep HGVs out of town.

• Allow another supermarket on Oakham Enterprise Park.

• Need B&Q or Currys on outskirts of town.

• We could do with some more nice shops – Superdrugs, clothes shops and maybe a cinema or bowling alley for the youngsters – instead of yet more charity and hairdressing shops!

• Use Victoria Hall as an Arts Centre (similar to Stamford).

• When is ALDI coming??

• There are too many traffic wardens – who is paying for them all?

• No more estate agents, charity shops of coffee shops.

• Market is a sad state – look at Stamford & Melton.

• Build more retail outlets on the bypass – to create employment.

• We need a ‘proper’ post office.