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Laugh? I nearly cried... by the Red Cat in Greasby, where they built a Vets4Pets and a 'corner shop' Sainsburys on half the pub car park, a 'Red Cat Retail Park' sign has gone up. I mean, really? One pub, one shop and a Vet? All the 'real' shops are across the road, so they don't count. You'd want quite a lot more than that before you'd call anywhere a Retail Park. What are they thinking? Somebody somewhere has delusions of grandeur... it's a nice enough sign in itself, with a neat little cat graphic - but totally inappropriate for the location.
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By becoming a bona fide retail park, they can apply for funding for tarting the place up perhaps?
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There's honestly nothing to tart up - don't know what their reasoning is. It will be interesting to see what happens about it.
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Wasn't planning permission refused recently for another retail unit there, perhaps they are "normalising" the idea that it is a retail park to increase the chances of expanding.
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I'm sure there will be a reason for it. Possibly it gives them a reduction in business rates or something. Becoming a retail park for the hell of it is hardly something anyone would aspire to without some benefit, surely.
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Apparently the knitting club threw a blanket over it last week.. 
Last edited by granny; 25th Jul 2018 10:40am.
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Yup, that was us - just making our feelings known! We couldn't leave the blanket there as that would probably be an offence and we're a law-abiding bunch, but it did make us feel better.
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What do they do if the pub changes it's name ? 
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Well, that would be an ideal excuse to take the daft sign down! don't think it'll happen anytime soon though...
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