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Furniture Clearance Warehouse Due to Close Its Doors
Councillor Mazher Iqbal, committee chair for transport, regeneration and climate change, said: "Making it easier to walk and cycle is especially important in development areas where journeys are likely to be shorter.
"We want other methods of
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However, some business owners have objected to the plans.
Mr Windle, who runs P&W Services on Neepsend Lane, said the changes would mean lorries delivering to sites in the area would not be able to avoid going through the new clean air zonemeaning an increase in delivery costs. He said the plans would also mean his car repair business, which was established by his father nearly 60 years ago, would no longer get any passing trade after the road layout changes. "One of the worst things for us is that we have lots of older customers who have been with a closing down sale starting Monday 19th September. This is by no means a business that is going bust, merely an owner who wants to dust of his passport and get to know his family in the daylight hours. exercise equipment, toys to pots and pans. The shop was an immediate success and within a couple of years gave David the confidence to move to bigger premises in the old Co-Op building on The Moor behind Redgates. The business traded here happily and successfully for several years until the council decided the building was required for other purposes.
"[The changes] are going to kill our trade, simple as that, and they are going to make it very hard for a lot of other companies."
The council has already applied for traffic orders to prioritise buses on Burton Road and Neepsend Lane, reduce traffic slow through Kelham, Neepsend and streets around West Bar, to put a 20mph (32km/h) speed limit on some streets in Neepsend and Kelham and to increase the speed limit on Harvest Lane, Hicks Street and Platt Street from 20mph to 30mph (48km/h).
The business predominantly sells living room, dining room and bedroom furniture. Selling end of line, over stocks and exdisplay from the big multiple furniture stores. There is something to suit every budget.
The owner, David has decided after working long hours and weekends for the last 23 years to start a new chapter. With no one to take over the reins of the business, it will begin
The sale will continue into the new year until all stock has gone. During this time all customers will receive their furniture and all orders will be
The owner is grateful for all the support and custom over the years and is looking forward to the next chapter.
Sale starts Monday 19th September at 10am - all stock reduced.
In 2006 the company moved again to the old Doors and Floors Galore warehouse on Attercliffe Road and traded for around a year before the premises were flooded in the 2007 floods. This prompted the business to relocate, this time to a much larger location on Coleford Road in Darnall, where they are currently based. These premises are 50 times bigger than the original store and focusses solely on selling furniture. This also saw the business change names to Furniture Clearance Warehouse. Although all these years later, customers still refer to them as SWAG.
The business predominantly sells living room, dining room and bedroom furniture. Selling end of line, over stocks and exdisplay from the big multiple furniture stores. There is something to suit every budget.
The owner, David has decided after working long hours and weekends for the last 23 years to start a new chapter. With no one to take over the reins of the business, there is now a closing down sale. The sale will continue until all stock has gone. During this time all customers will receive their furniture and all orders will be fulfilled.
This is by no means a business that is going bust, merely an owner who wants to dust off his passport and get to know his family in the daylight hours.
David is grateful for all the support and custom over the years and is looking forward to the next chapter.