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I've said it all along that I'd be amazed if the Bedlington scheme finishes and looks anything like it was planned.......Its been a balls up from start to finish, may as well start building the cheapo housing on the site now

I think Covid / Russia is partly to blame for this fiasco

May as well just start building all the houses / flats and stop the time wasting because we aren't going to see any more shops

Very worrying story.......drove past last week and the site is locked up and nothing doing

And after watching the new series on ITV "HOTEL CUSTODY" I'm surprised its as high as that https://www.itv.com/hub/hotel-custody/10a1079 worth a watch to see how the guests 🙄 are treated because at the end of each episode most get a slap on the wrist and no further action, no wonder this country has gone to 💩

And she's the best candidate for the job😟........bring back Boris

So we've had a town centre regeneration that has stalled.......and now this hasn't even got over the start line

Hopefully it is just a blip and is down to supply issues

You can put a big red cross through all six.......school report would read as a D-

Good to see a new small business open up in the former British Gas showrooms https://co22.uk/ community workspace with various packages on offer Good Luck 👍

Just accept nothing else will get built for a couple of years then eventually some cheap nasty housing will fill the rest of site. The chance of a development was lost when Tesco had its plans turned down because of a stupid listing on the old Coop building the same building that was demolished, we now would have had a nice new Tesco plus some new shops. Tesco pulled out of Bedlington because of constant fannying about by the council plus they refused to spend any more money on a building that had more holes in the roof than a sieve, so when they announced store closures Bedlington was always one of the stores top of the list

Has somebody run out of red pencil to fil the Bedlington space🙄

Your hopeful......4 new retail units....... Aldi plus a new Greggs and a load of flats is probably the best we can hope for, it been a total cock up from start to whenever it finishes

There was never any chance of getting a leisure centre my only grudge with the council is that they didn't approve the Tesco development years ago because of the former Coop building with its listed / historical status. Give it another two years and the rest of the site will be cheap nasty housing because of a combination of fannying about / incompetence by council etc

I forgot the tattoo shops .....we have 3 and every time I've gone past barbers shops at bp garage/todds/market place/old post office/clippers....no more than one person at best On a side note now that Morpeth are building a £21M leisure centre and selling the old one can Bedlington not put a cheeky £1 bid in and demolish/rebuild in the market place😁as we will happily take a 2nd hand leisure centre, it'll sit nicely where the pub that isn't getting built anymore would have been

Back to my original post.......I don't disagree that the high street has changed and the butcher/baker/candlestick maker thing is long gone, and yes there is clearly a market for all theses barbers/nail bars etc but only so many can survive and I think saturation point has been reached. Sadly I think the town centre development site will be the same in a couple of years time and eventually will have cheap housing built on and when I say the site will have cheap housing I mean cheap as in cheap and nasty not affordable. One idea would have been to move the library/doctors etc into a nice new modern building which would take a fair chunk of the land as the originals are out of date and as normal every other town has had/getting new except Bedlington. Tesco wanted to build a new shiny store and a handful of shops but were turned down because the old building was marked as listed/important🤣they also refused to spend major amounts fixing/bodging the leaking roofs/decrepit buildings and eventually decided enough was enough and left even though the old shop was making money. Then a few years down the line the entire site is flattened including the all important former COOP building

If you count up the number of hairdressers/barbers/nail bars/beauty salons in Bedlington main street and just off it comes to about 20 And as regards the town centre development they may as well just build a load of housing on it as nobody else will want to open up a shop because we aren't going to get a leisure facility etc

Shame to see another long established business closing.....so here is the latest betting on the new one opening Hair dresser/Barbers...1/2 Nail Bar... 6/4 Beauty Salon 7/2 Vape Shop...4/1 Cafe...5/1 Anything actually useful...20/1

Got my 6 weekly cut yesterday and Trevor was telling me he's been in his shop for 34 years this month.....well done and hopefully for many more years, many barbers have opened and closed over the years but only the best survive If you need a cut/trim give Trevor or Jill a go

Anybody care to recommend a garage for car repair/service it doesn't need to be main dealer and can be a back street garage I'm just after an honest/fair priced establishment

Work next door the the Aldi store seems to have dried up

Anybody had problems with mobile coverage in the last couple of days in particular Vodafone i did notice lots of vans and work going on at the BT building mobile mast yesterday and wondering if that is the reason

X31/32 bus fare will tumble as well with the competition £7.50 day return at the moment from Ashington to Newcastle

There was a funeral service at St Cuthbert's today must have been 100+ stood together outside church when coffin was being loaded no one wearing a mask

Nice gesture by yourselves but has the scumbag paid any compensation/fines towards the damage and items stolen.....or is/was it a fine which we all know will never be paid