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Archive => Archived Boards => Local Issues => Topic started by: the rover on November 04, 2012, 07:42:57 PM
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Has anybody any rumours about what is going to appear in the old Deli Toast building on Derby Way as it has recently been re-painted and work was/is going on inside?
Just for a bit of local history, the building used to be 2 houses and my father and a few of his siblings were born in the second house up in 1918 (my father's birthdate). My father used to tell me stories, one of which was when my father was a kid my grandfather used to sit outside the house chatting to neighbours and send my father round the back of the Bulls Head to get him a jug of beer.
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It would be a shame for it to be left empty. The rent will need to be reasonable.
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Surprisingly it is to be another cafe.
Possibly another opening where mulligans was.
Dominoes planning passed too.
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Surprisingly it is to be another cafe.
Possibly another opening where mulligans was.
Dominoes planning passed too.
Dominoes should do OK.
I can't see all the cofee shops / cafes surviving
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Surprisingly it is to be another cafe.
Possibly another opening where mulligans was.
Dominoes planning passed too.
Dominoes should do OK.
I can't see all the cofee shops / cafes surviving
They won't this is why Marple needs to change its cafes and charity shops
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Surprisingly it is to be another cafe.
Possibly another opening where mulligans was.
Dominoes planning passed too.
Dominoes should do OK.
I can't see all the cofee shops / cafes surviving
They won't this is why Marple needs to change its cafes and charity shops
The charity ships will survive, they don't pay rates which is why they are everywhere.
Marple will choose it's cafes in that the market will shake out the weakest. That's all good for the punter, not so good for the entrepreneur who's set the businesses up.
Interesting to note how Totnes kept Costa Cofee out of their town (with Costa's agreement), it's a pity it didn't happen in Marple
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Where will we find the 'charity ships' Duke - on the canal?
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Charity shops receive, I believe, 80% business rate relief.
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Has the former 'Brambles' premises next to the cinema also been let?
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I passed there the other day and there was work being done inside
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Has the former 'Brambles' premises next to the cinema also been let?
It has, I always thought the Gulshan should move in but the boys in the Gulshan tell me it's definately not them moving in.
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Just to inform you if you don't already know but the old 2nd hand shop near to the Cherry Tree Cafe on Stockport Road is going to open as 'Granny's Sweet Shop' according to the sign that went up the other day. Bet they won't last until Xmas, wrong location and wrong type of shop. But good luck to them!
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Charity shops receive, I believe, 80% business rate relief.
It can be higher than 80%, the official line is charities will pay no ore than 20%.
Landlords will often let to a charity rent free to avoid rates. some landlords will set up a small charity foundation of their own just to avoid rates.
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Charity shops receive, I believe, 80% business rate relief.
It can be higher than 80%, the official line is charities will pay no ore than 20%.
Landlords will often let to a charity rent free to avoid rates. some landlords will set up a small charity foundation of their own just to avoid rates.
Ah I see Duke the small business man in action anything to avoid contribution to society.
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Just to inform you if you don't already know but the old 2nd hand shop near to the Cherry Tree Cafe on Stockport Road is going to open as 'Granny's Sweet Shop' according to the sign that went up the other day. Bet they won't last until Xmas, wrong location and wrong type of shop. But good luck to them!
I do think a traditional sweet shop is missing in Marple. I blew my pocket money every weekend in The Chocolate Box near the Post Office. However, I'd be surprised if one survives for long at that end of the shopping area. Shops in that location need to be a destination and/or have a strong distance selling strategy because there is little passing trade and no parking.
Actually maybe I'm not sure a pick-and-mix type shop will do well enough these days. It may just be wishful thinking having just watched Nigel Slater's Sweet Shop programme on BBC4. Are there any real sweet shops around like that these days? Maybe there are fewer than there used to be for a reason.
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fond memories of the choclate box. was telling my kids about it the other day,taking coke bottles back for toffies , mint impireals,bonbons,choc limes , pear drops,picking up cigs for my mum and dad !! and picking up a box of weekends for my dad when he was in trouble with my mum..
kids couldnt belive it and you dont want to know what they thought a box of weekends were.
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Just to inform you if you don't already know but the old 2nd hand shop near to the Cherry Tree Cafe on Stockport Road is going to open as 'Granny's Sweet Shop' according to the sign that went up the other day. Bet they won't last until Xmas, wrong location and wrong type of shop. But good luck to them!
I do think a traditional sweet shop is missing in Marple. I blew my pocket money every weekend in The Chocolate Box near the Post Office. However, I'd be surprised if one survives for long at that end of the shopping area. Shops in that location need to be a destination and/or have a strong distance selling strategy because there is little passing trade and no parking.
Actually maybe I'm not sure a pick-and-mix type shop will do well enough these days. It may just be wishful thinking having just watched Nigel Slater's Sweet Shop programme on BBC4. Are there any real sweet shops around like that these days? Maybe there are fewer than there used to be for a reason.
There is one in Stockport & it benefits from passing trade.
I hope the new shop does well, the landlord down there is fairly realistic with rents (as I understand) but the rates are still way out of line.
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Charity shops receive, I believe, 80% business rate relief.
It can be higher than 80%, the official line is charities will pay no ore than 20%.
Landlords will often let to a charity rent free to avoid rates. some landlords will set up a small charity foundation of their own just to avoid rates.
Ah I see Duke the small business man in action anything to avoid contribution to society.
Yes damn me for encouraging small businesses, it's not like business offers our only chance of growth and economic recovery.
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Most main-stream charity shops occupy property that would otherwise be empty, either pending a sale or where the owners have a reason for not selling so in a sense they serve a purpose other than the obvious one (although I understand that Cancer Research UK own some, if not all, of their sites).
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Nice to see the new coffee shop has opened now.
Obviously not affected by Costa!
Why is it shut on a tuesday though.
Build up your business and get regulars in every day?? If they go somewhere else on a tuesday they might not go back again. Shame its not open sunday either.
Good to see another business setting up though.
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Nice to see the new coffee shop has opened now.
Obviously not affected by Costa!
Why is it shut on a tuesday though.
Build up your business and get regulars in every day?? If they go somewhere else on a tuesday they might not go back again. Shame its not open sunday either.
Good to see another business setting up though.
Does anyone know if Dominos is still coming to the empty HSBC bank it still says for let and the decontamination unit from outside the front has gone .
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the decontamination unit from outside the front has gone .
They'll be needing that if it becomes a Domino's ;)
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My wife and I went to the Gingerbread House on Saturday and we both said it was good to see someone take it on so soon after Toast closed and for having the balls to try and make a go of it in Marple. Its been done up throughout with a small furniture showroom upstairs. They've used a lot of pastel colours and they've not tried to cram too many seats and tables in which is good, as it feels a lot more spacious than before. I'm sure it will be a hit with the mums as its a lot more pram friendly than Toast was and All Things Nice when its busy. I did nt see the menus but we got 2 coffees and 2 slices of cake which came to £10. I think that's a bit expensive but I'm sure that wont turn people off from going. They were rushed off their feet and busy when we were there, so hopefully that will continue and they'll get a good reputation. The coffees seemed to be from a domestic coffee machine so that might create issues when people are waiting but that said the staff seemed attentive and nice so I wish them all the best.
Re. Dominos. I was wondering when they might start work now they have planning permission - may be they ran out of dough! :D
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the decontamination unit from outside the front has gone .
They'll be needing that if it becomes a Domino's ;)
Nice one Dave .