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Town's Peacocks store to close

5:22pm Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in News

Town's Peacocks store to close Town's Peacocks store to close

FASHION shop Peacocks, based in Bridge Street, has closed.

The chain was taken over by Edinburgh Woollen Mill today, Wednesday.

But they confirmed the Warrington store was one of more than 200 to close nationally.

Administrators have also now confirmed the store in Birchwood Mall has been closed and will not relocate.

Hundreds of stores will stay open but the announcement means 3,100 people will lost their jobs.

John Gorle, Usdaw National Officer said: “While this is obviously fantastic news for those workers whose jobs have been saved, it is absolutely catastrophic news for the 3,100 people now facing the dole queue and this remains one of the worst redundancy situations of recent years with Scotland being particularly hard hit.

“Usdaw will be seeking a meeting with Edinburgh Woollen Mill as soon as possible to discuss its plans for the business.”

Comments(14)

Spacey05 says...
5:34pm Wed 22 Feb 12

That street is going to be completely derelict soon. Something has to be done!! And not just charity shops. Whatever happened to the great plans to make it bars and restaurants etc??

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trace71 says...
7:05pm Wed 22 Feb 12

My mum was assistant manager at Birchwood Store and they not relocating they also got closed down this afternoon...She told me the list does say relocation but thats because the store was relocated to other end of centre few yrs ago not that the store is being relocated.....they all been finished up today.. Good luck to all in finding new employment

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warrboy says...
7:08pm Wed 22 Feb 12

wrong again Birchwood store relocated to job centre

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deakodude says...
7:31pm Wed 22 Feb 12

Hope all staff can soon find work.. shame for them.

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Chip Hazard says...
9:50pm Wed 22 Feb 12

The sad fact is that people generally drive into town more than they did 15+ years ago. There is little need to visit Bridge Street during the day. Hence developing Winwick Road Albans Retail Park.

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Spacey05 says...
8:35am Thu 23 Feb 12

Well maybe I'm old fashioned but I still enjoy my Saturday shopping trips with my Mum. I can't imagine spending 3-4 hours a day at Alban Retail Park I'm afraid. That's a get-in-get-what-you-
want-get-out sort of place.

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grey_man says...
10:05am Thu 23 Feb 12

The good news is while it is true that the council is ignoring its own strategy to build more out of town stores and finally turn Bridge Street into a post apocalyptic wasteland, they've applied for an £83,000 grant to buy some promotional boards to put over the derelict shops to try to convince everybody that none of it is actually happening.

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MikeJT says...
10:59am Thu 23 Feb 12

grey_man wrote:
The good news is while it is true that the council is ignoring its own strategy to build more out of town stores and finally turn Bridge Street into a post apocalyptic wasteland, they've applied for an £83,000 grant to buy some promotional boards to put over the derelict shops to try to convince everybody that none of it is actually happening.
WRONG....... They will spend the money on another sculpture "to try and attract more visitors to the town!"

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grey_man says...
11:38am Thu 23 Feb 12

Maybe they could spend it on another investigation to work out who thought that they should develop a local development plan which includes protecting the town centre, then ripping it up on the say so of a planning department which already has a very colourful track record. Perhaps they need the police to start looking at bank accounts after all.

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Quecumber says...
4:59pm Thu 23 Feb 12

And if Primark would have gone into the old Boots store it would have brought a whole new market to Peacocks Warrington, then perhaps it would have been a better performing store. It's time WBC offered a real 'incentive' to potential renters to take these places on and not simply listened to the complaints of the Golden Sq residents that it will "affect their business".

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wynnez says...
5:13pm Fri 24 Feb 12

What is the matter with Warrington that Primark have not opened a store here. Does the council not want it, surely it could offer incentives, other towns do. Widnes is attracting new business & has not got the population that Warrington has. How many more big shops are going to be empty before something is done.

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sirbollocks says...
5:41pm Sat 25 Feb 12

rumour has it Primark cannot be located in town centre due to conditions imposed by Debenhams when they agreed to be anchor tennants of the newly refurbished Golden Square

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DaveSmith says...
2:38pm Mon 27 Feb 12

wynnez wrote:
What is the matter with Warrington that Primark have not opened a store here. Does the council not want it, surely it could offer incentives, other towns do. Widnes is attracting new business & has not got the population that Warrington has. How many more big shops are going to be empty before something is done.
Widnes is attracting new business because there was nothing there before. Widnes haven't got anything to offer that you can't get in Warrington.

Peoples fascination with Primark baffles me.

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old-codger says...
6:42pm Tue 28 Feb 12

They are still selling vouchers online but you cant cash them in at the shop ???.

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