Rochdale

18/03/2009 by admin.

So my home town centre is on its knees. Can we blame the council?

When I first started this business, I wondered if Rochdale would hire my services to promote its tourism…surely the most underused asset this birthplace of the Co-op has.

I had visions of an Ironbridge of the Pennines, combining history with beautiful, if rugged, countryside. Then I went to a meeting to hear a councillor proudly proclaim that the authority now had an annual tourism budget of £10,000!

Add to that some of the craziest traffic schemes in Greater Manchester and a force of parking wardens the third reich would have been proud of …and is it any surprise we are in trouble?

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