As you walk along the Broadway high-street you will see that there are two more café type shops about to open, but do we need them? The Broadway already has many eateries and there is a variety of different cuisines so what is needed and can they increase the popularity of the area by a better range of stores?
What is becoming increasingly noticeable is that more cafes and food places seem to create a greater amount of discarded rubbish and food bringing in vermin such as foxes and rats which pose a potential health hazard to those live in the area and not to mention the effect of the dropped litter having on the environment and the look, and appeal of the Broadway.
The Broadway is also positioned in an area including many schools that include both primary and secondary education. This is a problem as the Broadway includes over three places to buy fast food from, which can lead to students into unhealthy eating habits. Whilst this problem may be out of our hands as we cannot control their diet as they can move somewhere else if the fast was to disappear; the real issue is that younger, more impressionable secondary/primary children who don’t have disposable income, can still pick these unhealthy eating habits from watching their older role models.
This also leads to a lack of variety in other types of stores and this has lead shoppers to go elsewhere if they need anything else other than essential items. There has been some movement from the council recently in order to fix this as they opened some new stores near the Broadway such as Smyths Toys and Pets at Home, but this doesn’t solve the problem as the high-street is still oversaturated with cafés and fast food.
