1 January 2011

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TOWN tourism officer Simon Kerr has welcomed the recent arrival of several new businesses in town as a sign that the realities of the current economic situation are encouraging both landlords and tenants to agree more practical and reasonable rental agreements on the towns commercial properties, rather than see them stand empty.

The two bargain stores now occupying the site of the former Woolworths in London Road have already proved immensely popular with shoppers, said Simon, as has the new cut-price book shop opposite.

And he had little doubt that the next national chain to find a home in East Grinstead – Kentucky Fried Chicken – will find an equally warm welcome.