Guildford High Street empty shops
Walking up the High Street, I did not count, but nevertheless shocked by the number of empty shops.
This is not at the level of Aldershot, but no other town centre I have visited has this number of empty shops. It only serves to highlight the failure of Experience Guildford and why it must be wound up.
I only noted from Quarry Street to Jeffries Passage. Had I wandered further up the High Street where I rarely venture, I would have found many more empty shops.
Experience Guildford and Town Rangers hide behind a faded red door in Tunsgate.
Sightings of Town Rangers are very rare, if spot one please take a photo and post on social media.
If Experience Guildford is not wound up, which is the preferred scenario, then there must be reform, board replaced, senior management fired, town rangers fired, and one vote one business.
Are the local community aware Experience Guildford place a levy on every local business in the town centre, a levy in today’s harsh retail environment which local businesses can ill afford, a levy for which they see no return? Are the local community aware of how votes are distributed based on rateable value, corporate chains have more votes even though they have no interest in Guildford other than the wealth they suck out of the town centre? This is like a rigged election in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, fair elections are held, only Putin decides who the candidates will be. Should HSBC have a seat on the board when they finance fossil fuel companies which is contrary to the declaration of Guildford as a green borough?
Tunsgate Quarter zombie shopping centre rarely a soul to be seen, useful short cut during inclement weather.
Maybe next visit, North Street empty shops.
