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Here's an curious thing. My home town is currently debating plans by Wilson Bowden for a £200 million redevelopment of the town centre, including a branch of troubled department store Debenhams.
Other than building a large department store in a small mill town (out of proportion and placed at one end of the town rather than as the centrepiece of the development and near to existing car parking), here's what's really curious about this.
I heard someone from Wilson Bowden on the radio this morning telling the community that they'd just finished a similar development in Wrexham. A bit of googling revealed firstly that not everyone is happy with what they've done there, and that secondly... there's a branch of Debenhams involved. With my curiosity piqued, I decided to do a wider search and discovered Wilson Bowden are either bidding to redevelop or are redeveloping in: Northwich, Rochdale, Barnsley, Macclesfield, and Blackpool. All these developments and plans involve opening a branch of, you guessed it, Debenhams. That's one hell of a coincidence, isn't it...
