{"id":939,"date":"2007-11-15T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2007\/11\/15\/your-future\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:56:00","slug":"your-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Your  Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07111501.jpg\" \/><br \/>People gathered at the Guildhall for a caf\u00e9 style discussion of the future of our district. They were presented with some of the big issues.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07111503.jpg\" \/><br \/>One subject was the economic vitality of town centres:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Changes in shopping, working, and leisure habits&#8230; mean that the town centres of Abingdon, Faringdon, and Wantage are not enjoying the full benefits of the Vale&#8217;s economic success&#8230; Residents are leaving their home town to work before the shops are open and returning after they are closed&#8230;They are using out of town superstores or travelling to large regional centres&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/07111502.jpg\" \/><br \/>Options to consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create better local awareness of town centre shops<\/li>\n<li>Resist out of town developments <\/li>\n<li>Set up business improvement plans for the town centres<\/li>\n<li>Improve the character of the towns through environmental improvements <\/li>\n<li>Put on more events to encourage people into the town centres<\/li>\n<li>Locate more houses near town centres<\/li>\n<li>Encourage an evening economy <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Didcot have turned their town centre around. They had enough derelict land near the town centre to start again, and built a new town centre adjacent to the old. It is like an out-of-town development in the town centre. The old bit may die off and be turned into housing but they have just moved sideways a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we can copy that. There is not the room. But thinking caps on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People gathered at the Guildhall for a caf\u00e9 style discussion of the future of our district. They were presented with some of the big issues.One subject was the economic vitality of town centres: &#8220;Changes in shopping, working, and leisure habits&#8230; mean that the town centres of Abingdon, Faringdon, and Wantage are not enjoying the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}