Market place, church and town hall are there, but all are sold as historic spaces - the church little used, the market perhaps, the town hall a museum or reference point, but the staff fled to a peripheral block appropriate to their regional title. Events survive but few know quite why, the carnival doesn't measure up to the National Lottery Show, the Mayor's Ball has rolled away. The industrialists have retired on the back of national and international closure. School cohorts and mum's groups provide some community stability, holding onto place until they leave, or the kids grow up. The town is a place on the national map but the coherence between surroundings and town is broken, and image is maintained through brown signs and patterned salvias.
Planners drop in, get job experience, and move on.
Business and mobile residents shift around the region, the new poor wonder why they're here and not in Dallas, Victoria Square or Miami for social deprivation is obvious to those who look.