Wetherspoons, and the adjacent shops were all compulsory purchased by the council, and are to be demolished togther with the bus station for a town centre redevelopment. Work on the this was supposed to start at the end of last summer but it looks like the starter motor is broken. Presumably for I think the third time the council has taken so long messing about that the moneys gone and the are is now in a mess and with more money has lost from rents and rates