What do you think is the worst city centre in the UK and why?

[OneLilacHedgehog]

So many cities have gone downhill since COVID. But which is the worst?

My dad came from Truro, used to enjoy visiting there, what’s happened to make it so bad now ?

@MadellineBellPictureMeGoneNSit was my first time (accidentally) in Edinburgh, lots of one way roads , traffic lights always on red (for ever) and people and cars/vans/bicycles darting from everywhere! Very beautiful though 🤣

@EvenMoreFuriousVexation
Without getting drawn into any city/town pointless pedantry...ss
It's not pointless pedantry.
Somewhere like Croydon just doesn't have a city centre.

That’s sad to read. I’ve been here for 40 years and love it.

Liverpool Is fabulous and puts my city to shame.

I grew up near there. Was horrified when I last visited. It used to be a solid respectable county town, now it's like something out of a disaster movie. (And yes I know it's not a city.)

Apart from the clean, well-maintained, privately owned main shopping streets, neither of which has a single vape shop? The plentiful parking spaces, wide roads and the total lack of traffic jams? The thousands of acres of town centre woodland, plus Coronation Park and the Wessy? The modern theatre, international swimming pool, library and cinema within 60 seconds’ walk of the centre? And don’t forget the incredible people who will pick you up every time you fall down. They’ve managed to maintain a strong sense of community, unlike many other areas. I love Corby, and so do most people who live there.

I was in Northampton last week and I couldn’t find a single shop I wanted to go in. If anyone has any recommendations for women’s clothes shops there, I’m all ears. I will say the bit around the Guildhall is lovely, aside from the drug users who sit in the square.

Ok, if I can't have Aberystwyth and apparently Carmarthen doesn't count either so I'm going with Brighton. Last time I visited was for a concert at the Pavillion where a fight broke out a few rows behind me, an usher was badly beaten up, police were called. It is always dirty, the car parks are ancient and feel unsafe, the walk from the station to town centre can be unnerving, and so many derelict buildings.

I thought the same. Why so negative??

Wrexham

@charliehungerford Truro is not bad at all. It’s just one person’s opinion. Everyone else on here disagrees with them anyway. So 🤷‍♀️

Coventry was horrendous pre COVID, I dread to think what it's like now.

Salford doesn't even have a city centre so that's got to be the worst.

I was very glad DS decided not to go to Durham for uni. I accompanied him to the offer holder day because it was a really early start to get there from home. I spent the day looking round the city. The empty shops were a whole new level of empty compared to where we live. There were clubs and cafes but it was very hollow and empty and the divide twixt posh colleges and city was more marked than Oxford or Cambridge

@snurtifier, it is not a city but it's a large town that's going to attract people from the surrounding area, as somewhere like Reading, Bournemouth, Kingston or Guildford might.

Somewhere like Maidenhead or Slough won't. You'd go to London or a nearby town for anything more than basic or food shopping.

God I went to university in Staffordshire and lived just down the road from Hanley and really like it - that was early 90's though......

It's not like that now.

Twixt?

Between. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip"

Great Northern soul record by the..Present

Manchester used to be amazing

Lancaster

I’ve just had a week in Edinburgh - as a tourist, walking miles. There didn’t seem to be all that much traffic on most of the roads, lots of pedestrian crossings only a few of which we had to wait for long….a city centre in which people are prioritized over cars, perhaps?!

Not good for shopping, but its got nice bits to it.

@wanttokickoffbutcant , Keele or North Staffs?
@MadellineBellPictureMeGoneNS , I can't stand Northern Soul.