EDITORIAL COMMENT: Public must hear Friar's Walk debate (From South Wales Argus)

• "What was worth keeping were the shops ! The image of boarded up or empty business looks very bad.
  
  Perhaps we can copy the idea of other English councils and stick photos of customers on the windows of empty buildings so it looks like there are some.
  
  NOT worth keeping are the bus station, the old car parks, the charity and pound shops, graffiti-covered walls, old buildings that have fallen down they call 'listed' (Listed for demolition that never happens!), e.g. Newport Castle, Lawns Club, one fenced off because it became an open toilet and drug den, the other left to rot because the owner wants to put something useful there instead of a pile of rocks and overgrown weeds.
  
  How about moving the indoor market ? Put it in the John Frost Square, what is lacking is Newport has no centre. (Or outer bits !).
  
  And they are STILL desperately plugging a golf game as Newport's saviour..."
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