Well, well! Sittingbourne redevelopment not going so well now?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/restaurant-firms-sign-up-for-town-s-revamp-202426/
As a councillor comments in the article referencing the Elwick Place project in Ashford. “The project includes a Travelodge Hotel, a six-screen cinema and eight restaurants. It opened in December with capital investment from council taxpayers and initial amnesties on rent.
"You may well recognise this
off-the-shelf uninspiring and commercially out-of-date model of regeneration. It is in trouble and has been accurately described by an Ashford Labour councillor as ‘ghost town’ "
There's a lot of it about!
