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There is now debate and point of opinions regarding Piccadilly Gardens if it is Go Area or No Go Area. According to The Manchester Evening News :

A judge has declared Piccadilly Gardens a 'no go area' for many as he jailed a knife robber who targeted an innocent man on a night out. The judge may be right; it is no go for the many but the few at night, the dealers, the gangs and the adventures. Piccadilly Gardens have the 'Berlin Wall' as described by the judge, which is a right hiding place for the wrongdoers and contributes to reducing the safety of innocent people entering the square at night.

The police rejected the judge comment describing Manchester city centre square as a "no-go area" according to the BBC but are his opinion is accepted popular by the public.

Manchester Evening News, the trusted newspaper of Manchester has reported Piccadilly Gardens 'no-go zone' back in April 2010, and it seems the situation has not improved.

Piccadilly Gardens is the focal point of the City of Manchester, and it is populated by people who work there or locals and visitors out for leisure. It ideally situated within easy reach of Manchester's busy shopping areas and the Northern Quarter, where people find a lot of restaurants and bars to spend the nights.

Piccadilly Gardens surrounded by bus and metro stops where people arrive and leave the city when in town for entertainment, dining or shopping.

It is a shame to see the focal point of Manchester and Manchester reputation in this state. Now we always advise Manchester visitors when asked to avoid Piccadilly Gardens at night. With all this potential for business and pleasure and being the focal point, we do not understand why no more effort has been made to improve the situation especially when we saw how some areas outside the city centre that people used to call them rough regions and now have developed and not any more.

There is a lot that can be mentioned either from experience or from reading about Piccadilly Gardens. We do not want to make it sound even worse here. Hope the authorities who can do something to improve the situation to do it soon, and without compromising to save it. As the longer, it is left without drastic measures to improve it, the harder it will take.

Probably we need to listen to Jonathan Schofield from Confidential as he suggested dramatic changes need to be implemented to restore a decent square from changing the name to restyle Piccadilly Gardens, we are not going to take it back to the original status as Confidential shows in this picture.

This Picture From Confidential Site

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but at least to restore some peacefulness and hence safety in the square.

The article writer's father ( old ‘ish man then ) was in Manchester in the summer of 1976 visiting his son. He used to go a few times a week to Piccadilly Gardens while the son at the University. He loved it and enjoyed seeing the roses, the flower beds full of flowers, the butterflies and bees ( which became Manchester symbol now ). He was so attached to it; when he travelled to London and Paris after Manchester, he didn’t like any other gardens he seen like the one he loved in Manchester, He said they might be bigger and maybe better for some, but for him, they haven’t the charm Manchester Piccadilly Gardens had.

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Manchester Ordinary people are being priced out of living in Manchester city centre by foreign investors buying properties, the BBC has been told.

That is always one the worries of visitorsinmanchester.com and it has been mentioned for years and so many times if you go back to our old articles and the page about this site. It has been mentioned that tourism might disadvantage local if not controlled properly, And you will see that this site

Promotes tourism that doesn't disadvantage locals

Promotes tourism that benefits all not just a few ( visitorsinmanchester.com is not inclined to any party )

and People come first materials come second.

visitorsinmanchester.com touches subjects other tourist sites won't.

For the full BBC article please see the following link;

Manchester Ordinary people are being priced out of living in Manchester city centre

Thanks to the BBC for highlighting this important issue

visitorsinmanchester.com will publish an article, About Gold Stan, a New Emarit in Europe to accommodate the tourist population then local people won't be pushed out to make room for tourists. Just to compare the situation in Manchester and Dubai, the people there provided with free houses and have free money from the government now and then, properly to compensate them for the inconvenient of having the tourist industry and with all the side effects that come with it. What the Mancunians get, pushed out of the city !!!

visitorsinmanchester.com has no doubt that the intention is good but the results are not to everyone liking. We have London as an example and we do not like to see Greater Manchester have the same situation/fate for the locals.

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Sorry to see this week has gone

Some of Manchester Visitors who are interested in UK politics have enjoyed watching This Week , presented by Andrew Niel as recommended to them by visitorsinmanchester.com in the following link https://visitorsin.com/index.php/political-issues and they are going to miss it now , we have to find another political TV program that is light and informative on UK politics that tells them what has happened and what is happening during the week.

This week is the only political platform that you can see politicians from all parties sit together and discuss political issues without fighting shouting or accusation to the others and the rest of the other practice that some politicians follow. The only times we saw some accusation or arrangements were from journalists, guests etc. but never from the panel who are usually from The Labour and Conservative parties. We have seen how Daiana Abbott and Michael Portillo sat on the sofa very cosy reviewing and discussing the political issues of the week in a civilized relaxed and friendly atmosphere. In fact, we haven't seen Diana Abbot as relaxed as she was on This Week program. We all aware who she was not happy with the other BBC program Question Time recently. Also, We have seen her a long time ago on Question Time when she was not happy with someone on the panel with the question or maybe accusation and she was so angry if we remember that incident right, she threatens to sue.We were very happy to see Diana happy and she made us very happy to watch This Week Programme.

A few politicians from the labour party sat on the sofa with Michael Portillo after Diana Abbott to mention Alan Johnson, Liz Kendall and Caroline Flint thanks to them.

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