The high street is a sad sight in most places now. Mall's and Amazon finished them off.After spending about a year in my home town back in 2022, wandering around the town in utter disgust at how the council had abandoned the High St, allowed pawnbrokers and grubby casinos into the pedestrian areas, a strip club wouldn't surprise me one bit![]()
It's bad here too and our council would struggle to do a worse job.
I live about 15 mins from the main towns highstreet and I never ever go there.
There is a college that became a university here and it offered real hope for the crumbling high street as it brought in a lot of young people that balance out the 100's of old folks homes plus they spend money but our dumb ass council won't let them expand.
They block almost all enterprise that tries to come here.
Bridgwater 20 mins down the motorway used to be an awful smelly dump of a place, the sort of place you'd go if you wanted to get in a fight on a Saturday night but their council were proactive and every business that Weston blocked Bridgwater took.
Bridgwater has rescued itself and Weston is a worse than it's ever been, and it wasn't great to start with!