What a pleasant surprise it was this morning (Saturday) to find plenty of available parking spaces near the old Lidl store.
New Lidl has opened, off Atherton Way, with its own car park, but the existing spaces near Spring's Parade remain...for now.
The plan, of course, is for Tesco to build a much bigger Brigg store on the old Lidl site, with demolition of the now empty premises. Until that happens, Brigg has never had it so good for free car parking spaces.
Peer in through the window of the old Lidl store and you'll see the interior has been totally stripped of fixtures and fittings. It would now make a super venue for indoor football, or even hockey.
....I did see a Landrover, outside Brian's DIY with a parking ticket early afternoon.....But apart from that...let's look beyond the freebies....
ReplyDeleteI hope someone's removed all the copper piping and turned the utilities off in the old Lidl's store.
As a large empty store, the building is now ripe for vandalism....if you can see thro' the windows, Nige, the more unscrupulous will break a window.
Tesco has a moral obligation to inform Brigg what is now going to happen to the site.
The official response from Tesco a few months ago was that 'the were no plans to build the new store, at present, but such a answer is sufficiently vague to cover all bases without actually being definite about anything.
Someone, perhaps the council, should now seek definitive answers to the site's future prospects....otherwise the town could have a vandalised, dilapidated wreck of a structure right in the heart of Brigg.
.....about 10 years ago, when the Brigg Market Town Initiative project was in full swing, the building (I believed Grandways had just vacated it and before Lidl's moved in)was suggested as a possibly suitable venue for a replacement for the Exchange.
ReplyDeleteIt had and still remains on a very prime real estate site in Brigg - next to the river with ample car-parking and sufficiently close to the Market Place to evolve into a rather prestigious centre to be an attraction for folks from afar.