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    Distantred Well-Known Member

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    I've just been back to Barnsley for the first time in 3 years and was greatly surprised by the transformation in the town centre, imo it looks great and is a credit to all involved in the development. Around the town hall also looked nice, it felt good to be back
     
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    Nice to hear positives for a change about the town turning things around since the 80s 90s .
     
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    I love the new town centre - it looks fresh and modern. Tradional town centres are changing, and it's good to see Barnsley moving with the times.
     
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    Getting alot of comments from my friends in Sheffield about how nice Barnsley is by comparison to Sheffield.
    As someone who wasn’t fond of the exterior cladding on the new Glassworks, I have to hold my hands up and say the town centre has been transformed and is a nice place to be for eating/ drinking, and to a lesser extent shopping (market wise, at least).
     
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    Barnsley is well and truly fukced according to supertyke this week because of brexit, looks OK doesn't it.
     
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    The Town Centre is looking great now. Peel Square is much improved too. People forget Barnsley was a dump in the 50-60s.
     
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    Huge difference how a town appears and whether you can get a member of staff to serve you, or whether you can get something off the shelf at an affordable price, or even at all.
     
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    I'm shocked at the dump Sheffield centre has become. I spent many years of my working life right in the heart of the city and it was a great place to be.
     
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    Or be able to get a bus to and from the town centre...

    Due to a lack of funding there are set to be huge cuts to bus services from October this year. A quote from the ExaminerLive
    "A draft plan seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service shows that Barnsley could have zero buses running past 7pm"
     
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    Surely you’re not claiming Tarn centre improvements are because of Brexit then? You know, those originally planned before the Global crash in 2008, and then later scaled back to what they are now. Everything positive done in Barnsley is despite of Tory govt cuts and Brexit not because of.
     
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