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Just to satisfy Zeb's expectations, I said in an earlier post that I understand this will give LL full high street status and push up business rates, thus forcing out some of the last remaining independents. Does anybody know the position on this?


Thanks.

thus forcing out some of the last remaining independents.


If this were to happen shops would be left empty, if for no better reason than the footprint of most LL shops is well below the square meterage that most chains would be interested in. The reason we have so many estate agents is that offices of this nature can operate in small(er) premises (notwithstanding the great misue of retail opportunity space that is Foxton's).

I knew that I was tempting fate when I said that I was waiting for the negative posts to appear on this thread.


My main inclination is to greet the news that cinema has gained planning permission by quoting Margaret Thatcher (a person who incidentally I hated greatly) and shouting "Rejoice!"

Louisa Wrote:

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> I don't have much knowledge of films from the

> 1980s, and my genre was at it's best in the 70s

> anyway. Gone to the dogs these days. Such is

> life.

>

> Louisa.



Surely Taboo (1980) is in your collection Louisa?

A true dream come true! There will be an array of great films for all ages, groups, nationalities, gender, covering different genres, formats, alternative content...The stuff that dreams are made of. A great ammenity to the local community. Build it and they will come...Bring on the building works!!

DuncanW Wrote:

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> Disco didn't die in 82/83

> It had a little nap maybe and came back a couple

> of years later as House music!!



disco didn't exist to the white middleclasses kids and/or journalists (in the UK anyway) until house came along.

...and, excluding the big disco hits, how much soul and funk was played on say Radio 1 or talked about in the NME? When I went to Univesrity in 1981 the soundtrack at the Student Union was very, very white...a lot of people didn't know any James Brown tracks for example

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