Upperbanks is due to be completed over the next few months
The council has quashed rumours that a new apartment complex currently under construction in the town centre will be used to house asylum seekers.
Austin Hopley, who owns Vinesteins on The Walk, believes that people trying to talk down the £50 million town centre regeneration are making it impossible to run a small business.“The word around the town is that the apartment block will be filled with refugees,” the 25-year-old said. “I feel that people need to be told the truth.
“Even if this is for social housing or to house refugees, what is bad about it? People saying all this are going against what the council and the developers are trying to do here.”The scheme, which the council expected to be completed by August or September, has attracted more than £20m of external funding - including £17m coming from the government’s Future High Streets Fund.
“This is a really good opportunity to build up the town centre and we have some nice stuff coming up. We need to embrace it as positive.”
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