I RECENTLY revisited my university town, Durham City.
For obvious reasons its centre has always been busy and popular with tourists.
I found that every street leading to the market place had been pedestrianised and the footfall that this has generated is amazing.
We had the greatest difficulty finding a cafe that was not crowded with customers.
The traders who seem to be vetoing the partial pedestrianisation of part of Bottom Street are being very myopic.
I suspect it is the temporary loss of custom from the disruption of installation that is worrying them.
Could they not be compensated in some way – a relief on business rates, perhaps?
Paul Thomson
Mobberley
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