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Why do we all put up with having so very little in terms of arts, service and entertainment in Alfreton?

Our local services are dire!

Other towns have a museum, at least one night club, a dance hall, a theatre, an arts centre, a cinema just to name a few!

Yet Alfreton seems to be content in having very little and doing even less to put the situation right. All's not gloom though; We can all look forward to the annual fight and commentary of who will be paying for the Christmas lights!

We are only too quick to moan when local youths get involved in drunken brawls in the town centre on a weekend, but are we doing enough to make Alfreton some great to live?

Is enough being done to educate, entertain, and develop the education, skills and enterprise of our local youth?

Shouldn't our town planners and local politicians be doing more to put these things right - before Alfreton turns into a ghost town?

The Town Centre could do with a total re-vamp and get some decent parking in, alleviate the constant traffic ques with a one way system and run an initiative for subsidised retail premises to get some good local shops back into the town centre.

To me, it seems like Alfreton fell asleep some time ago and needs to wake up. The only positive things that seem to be happening are down to local enterprises or commercial groups - like the leisure centre revamp and the Genesis expansion of Alfreton Hall.

Alfreton needs to wake up and change!

I always find parking to be an issue and now that the've put those daft traffic lights on the high street - theres always a que to get into town. Whoose daft idea was that then.