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Liverpool ONE is now open, and it’s scary! I’ve read that as a private development, the owners, Grosvenor, have the right to deny access to any undesirables, reported as “Big Issue sellers, beggars, people with Netto carrier bags, and young people skateboarding or hanging out with friends”. According to the Liverpool ONE website, their stores are ultra-hip fashion brands and cool independent boutiques. Presumably people with Netto carrier bags don’t fit this profile and won’t make it through the unseen doors of this mall without walls.
Perhaps all areas, residential, retail or business, should be privately owned and policed to keep undesirables out? This might have a positive impact on antisocial behaviour, then we could all rest peacefully in our beds at night, with the only worry to wrinkle our brow being whether we’re as ultra-hip as the Joneses.
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