Letter - Bar is a no-brainer
After reading in the Express about the Bar 42 being put on hold in Ossett I felt I needed to put pen to paper, although I barely know where to start.
The 42 in Horbury must be one of the most successful businesses here, it caters for all age groups, is well-run with friendly staff, and is an asset to our busy little shopping centre,
Yes people do eat, drink and smoke outside, which I believe adds to the cosmopolitan feel and alfresco atmosphere that people require on long hot summer evenings.
They also chat, have a laugh and meet friends.
As for Ossett town centre being a conservation area, have these councillors looked around and seen the peeling paint and empty shop units?
As well as the 20 new jobs this would create (maybe open to some redundant local authority workers) there is the ripple effect of car parking revenue, business for local taxi firms, money into the local economy, local tradesmen, local suppliers, of which there is a number, revenue for the LA in business rates, waste collection etc.
We are quite happy in Horbury to keep welcoming people from Ossett to use the 42 in Horbury and wander around our shops and spend money here, but surely if it’s good enough for Horbury it’s good enough for Ossett.
It seems a no-brainer to me, but maybe that says it all!
Christine Freeman
High Street
Horbury
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ManicManiac
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 08:24 AMI would agree that the new bar would have sparked some life into Ossett town centre, but to be honest Christine the people of Ossett are used to being promised things which never actually appear in the end! Ossett was promised a public swimming pool over 20 years ago, and this has never appeared up to the current day. The former Cock and Bottle pub was supposed to be converted into an attractive indoor market - those plans also look to have gone by the wayside. It took years before the new super surgery was built on Kingsway when it should have taken a matter of months. We're still waiting for the council to get off their backsides and renovate the opposite side of the town hall, which looks exactly like the other side did 15 years ago. It also took over 10 years to decide what to do with the former Kenning Road Tanker plant at the bottom of Kingsway, after multiple planning applications were put in. This eventually opened as a Lidl supermarket but there could have been all sorts of things put on there - even the promised swimming pool!
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