New scheme to beat Burselm town centre queues

“Just pull Vale Park down, make room for a new road lay out and car park. No one would notice.”

“in this day and age, we have to pay for parking.. fact. is it right? no.. is it fair? no.. when stoke on trent council insist on spending millions to build civic centre, then a further £50 million? to rebuild ANOTHER office space.. the justification to ask the public to line their pockets from parking fees is plain wrong.. now, Burslem has had millions spent on it .. its looking very nice, new shop fronts, renovated old empty shops, beautiful floral displays.. everyone talking about Burslem .. good or bad, lets see the locals WALKING or taking advantage of the delivery serivces of food establishments.. (little advert there.. mothertown fish n chips now trialing deliveries on fridays 6 till 9.30pm for £1).. actually would be cheaper to pay for parking.. now isnt that an interesting point :@D.. it amazes us how many people talk about the parking fees... but dont actually know how much short stay is...do you?.. going back to the new road layout.. i see a major problem on st johns sq... if people turn right into it and cant park.. where do they go? how do they get out? queens st is still one way!!.. one solution is to open up a road through the unused parking area.. next to the old video world and laundry (dry clean) so cars can join woodbank st.. any thoughts?..”

“Forget short term pay and display parking, what Burslem needs is short term free parking. It doesn't have the big name stores of Hanley to attract the shoppers in, but it does have stores of use to the community. Like someone else said, if you want to quickly visit a newsagent/a cash machine you have to chance parking illegally or go through the hassle of paying to park somewhere.

And give folks half hour bays of free parking for quick "nip to the shops" scenarios, and they may well end up finding something to come back for longer for.”

“I do agree that these ghost towns need more shops with more variety, also that it would be lovely to walk into town and enjoy shopping. The large supermarket would do well to listen to local customers, the death knell for Burslem was when the Co-op Hypermarket didnt build in the town and chose to build on the outskirts, perhaps if they had opened in the town they would still be there!!!!!!!! So come on Asda/Tesco etc., come back into our towns and encourage other s to come with you.
Something else to point out, Goldenhill is crying out for an Asda/Tesco there is an awful lot of people in this area who would use a really good supermarket, knock down the old cinema, there is carparking space at the rear and on the high street, so maximise the potential and bring this village back to lifee”

“Why would anyone want to park all-day in Burslem. THERE'S NOTHING THERE!!! The council would be better advised to pull all resources at making Hanley work!”

“The plans show a bus lane on Waterloo Road. How is traffic flow going to be maintained if this goes ahead? No right turn from Waterloo Road into Moorland Road and no right turn from Moorland Road towards Tunstall among other changes. This will almost certainly cause more traffic chaos and end up with more people avoiding going to Burslem.”

“The bull that councillor Ruth Rosenau come out with never fails to crack me up.....this sticking plaster is a bit to late as the patient bled to death years ago.”

“It's too late this City Council helped kill off Burslem a long time ago, it cannot be resuscitated anymore.

Throwing money at traffic measures will not solve anything.

Years of no future vision and no proper regeneration business plan – loss of factories, businesses and major retail shops leaving, not to mention the Ceramica debacle (what a waste of money that was) Burslem went down the pan. Burslem is the neglected Mother town (Hanley has had everything thrown at it and has been promoted to attract all viable retail shops to transfer there). This City council unfortunately put all its eggs in one basket – Hanley.

If anyone honestly thinks these changes will have some effect to the prosperity of Burslem, they must not have an ounce of common sense. Do officers and planners in the Civic Centre ivory tower have a clue what to do, years of different officers and planners have had brain waves of ideas to the detriment of this town.

Instead of trying in pull the wool over its citizens eyes again and pretend to know what they are doing, a better idea instead of spending nearly £50M on new the civic offices move would be to spend some of that money looking at other ways of revitalising the failing towns of the potteries.

Let's all be realistic and agree that Burslem is dead as a retail venture.”

“Why is everybody so obsessed with going shopping in their cars? Not everybody wants to take their cars into a town centre. I'd prefer to walk into town rather than pay through the nose to park my car. Who is Burslem trying to attract? People from Longton, Tunstall, Newcastle? I believe Burslem town centre should be trying to attract Burslem people. And then when it has a newly improved town centre, then consider improving the roads and carparks to attract those who live outside of Burslem. What the towns of Stoke-on-Trent need is more shops, more variety, something worth going into town for. Spending all the money on roads and directing everybody Hanley means all the other towns end up dead. And then the carparks end up useless. It's about time the council cut business rates to 25% to encourage new businesses to the towns of Tunstall, Burslem and Longton. That would clearly help to fill empty premises.”

“Where is this mythical town of Burselm then? I've heard of Burslem but not Burselm. Surely the local newspaper can spell the name of it's local towns correctly?”