It’s 11th February 2015 in High Wycombe. After a shaky start, during which it barely stumbled through the credit crunch, Eden Shopping centre has gone from strength to strength and is attracting people from all corners of North-West London. The ‘new social consciousness’, which all the media seems to have become fixated with since the dark days of 2008 and 2009, is what seems to be pulling shoppers in as they look less to the joys of naked consumerism and more to making practical purchases that… Continue

Let’s hear it for Eden? What? That monster that has bounded into the front garden of our cramped town, kicked down the door and sprayed the living room with a multitude of glossy, soulless commerce, nicking the comfy chair once proudly occupied by local business? Yes, let’s hear it for all of that. It’s easy to have a go at Eden, but perhaps less easy to assess what good it has brought to High Wycombe. And I don’t just mean not having to trek to Reading every time you want to buy a new… Continue