Who is going to help our town centre

I note some of the comments are asking what the council propose to do to prevent this from happening and to keep our town centre a going concern for shopping and I too would like to know what the council propose to do.

It seems to me that we have a very big and very prominent Chamber of Commerce that actually do diddly squat for our town centre. Indeed, I wonder how much money is spent on that organisation's large offices by the 'hotties', and at what actual cost to the town, because as far as I can see they're not helping matters at all when every other shop store is a closed down abandoned doorstep for our increasing homeless population to sleep upon.

I was once told by someone employed there that our Chamber isn't 'just a chamber of commerce' and that it's quite unique compared to other town chambers.

Yes, because unlike other chambers, it doesn't seem to be helping to attract, improve and sustain local businesses.

I am a Labour supporter and a party member but I despair of how our MP Marie Rimmer and the party's councillors serve this town. It's true to say a pig in a red rosette would get in in St Helens and, with that attitude, it's clear those who represent and serve us have a very laissez faire attitude.

They long ago allowed our streets and neighbourhoods to grow dirty and neglected and now they're doing it to the town centre itself and, as their attitude towards the Hardshaw Centre benches show, they do not cater to or care for what the people of this town want. Why, they won't even do the decent thing and pay out the massive back payments they rightly owe many hardworking council employees - many of whom are probably Labour through and through - preferring instead to appeal and appeal and appeal.

So maybe I should be asking what the council or 'the chamber' propose to do about the deterioration of our town centre, because maybe I already know the answer.

They'll do nothing, as per usual.

Mark

St Helens.