It has the potential to be so good
Shoppers at a Nottinghamshire town's precinct say it is "going downhill" amid frustration over the current state of the area. Carlton Square in Gedling was the subject of a failed Levelling Up Fund bid in 2021, though £350,000 of funding from a local enterprise partnership was then used to redevelop its car park.
"It just needs some upgrades. Some of the money we've got, we are going to put towards improving that, but we're improving other people's property and they're taking out the rents everywhere." "You get to 1pm every day and this place ends up looking like a ghost town. It is a shame because this area was once amazing."
But P Sandhu, 53, said: "It is very difficult in terms of making improvements because we know that traditional retailers everywhere are struggling. You have to think of ways to attract new business to the square but I don't know what they would be.
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