Two new retailers coming to Sutton (From Surrey Comet)
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Major shops Dreams and Peacocks coming to Sutton
6:50am Friday 17th April 2009 in Sutton
Two major retailers are to open new stores in Sutton town centre in the coming weeks in a major boost for the local economy.
In April, beds retailer Dreams is to open a store on the ground floor of the St Nicholas Centre.
Then in May fashion retailer Peacocks will open a flagship store in the former Woolworths premises on the High Street.
Coun Lyn Gleeson, executive member for economic development on Sutton Council, said: “This is great news for the town centre and demonstrates that despite tough trading conditions we can still attract major new business to Sutton.
“It’s sure to boost the confidence of existing traders with business decision makers investing in new stores now and not waiting on the sidelines until there is an improvement in the economic climate.
“However we are under no illusion that some of our firms are struggling and the council is working closely with the Town Centre Partnership to support and advise local traders and bring more business to the borough.
“And with the regeneration of the High Street starting in the summer there is real cause for optimism that the local economy can weather the recession and emerge from it stronger than ever.”
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Comments(4)
sfocata
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6:23pm Sun 19 Apr 09
I remember, some time during the late-90s, realising that Sutton had been getting a lot more interesting ever since I'd moved here in 1993.
Now we have very few independent shops at all, practically no cultural scene to speak of, and the promise of two more bland indenti-mall shops to look forward to. Shall we just wave a huge white flag over the Civic Offices and ask the Environment Agency if the whole of Sutton can be cleared for landfill?
sfocata
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6:25pm Sun 19 Apr 09
Fred1
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9:35am Mon 20 Apr 09
There's a limit to what you can really do with Sutton, because of the one-dimensional nature of its town centre. You can't make it into a two-dimensional town by putting shops down any side-streets, because that would mean having to reroute the ring road system. And there's definitely no room for the town-centre green spaces that Kingston benefits from. I realise that Manor Park is there, but Manor Park is outside the ring road, and the ring acts as a psychological barrier that prevents people from moving from the shops to the park, and vice versa, especially given that there's no ramp bridge or subway for Manor Park (unlike the civic offices, strangely enough, which *does* have a ring road crossing ramp). As a result, I think people are left with the impression that Sutton town centre is just rather depressing, so they don't come back.
Fred1 says...
1:45am Sun 19 Apr 09