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Ashford MP Damian Green reacts to town centre survey results
KentOnline / KMTV
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11/02/2024
One in three Ashford residents are calling for Primark to open in their “ghost town”.
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I was delighted to get 1,200 replies, so it's a decent representation of the views of people
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who use Ashford Town Centre and indeed some who don't use it often enough because quite a lot of
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people, about a third, said they go in less than once a month. It's up to the individual
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retailers themselves where they put shops but I will be contacting Primark and at least one other
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company that were mentioned to see if there's any chance of getting them to consider doing what
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clearly people in Ashford want. Apart from Primark, the other shop that people really wanted
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was Marks and Spencer and of course there was one until fairly recently in the town centre and
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that's closed down so I can see why people would like to have a Marks and Spencer back in the town
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but it's true that Primark was overwhelmingly the favourite, the one thing that would change the
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level of footfall in the town centre. It would be a huge boost certainly and I agree with everyone
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that obviously since Debenhams closed that store along with a lot of other stores, I mean it was a
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Debenhams problem not an Ashford problem, but obviously that's a big vacant space that would
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be ideal for Primark. Obviously it's a matter for them how much of it they would want to fill
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if they decide to come to Ashford but certainly that's an obvious space to do it because then
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that would act not just in terms of getting people into the Primark but also into all the other shops
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in County Square. I think to have a properly thriving town centre you want a mix of different
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types of shops and one of the interesting things people said that apart from Primark and Marks and
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Spencer the third most popular category was just a general department store. I think people do feel
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the lack of a department store in Ashford town centre.
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