The high street in Wick is well and truly on it's way out. High rents and business rates with little footfall has seen to that. Also, given that there has been numerous attempts to set up a permanent indoor type market in Wick over the years and plans seemingly always fell short of the council's "expectations", i'm surprised they have the cheek to even think about making one now. There is an excellent unused building that would be perfect for an indoor market, namely the old jobcentre. It's up for sale at £78k i read the other day so not a great deal of money for the council to forego in the setting up of an indoor market. They can't say it won't meet expectations considering it was a public building and has disabled access. I suppose it will be like the Wick and Thurso charettes ideas from around 2013, a great idea until it is time to actually implement it then the excuses began.
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