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Waterlooville Precinct’s Butcher Closed (Again)

Monday 5th September 2016 by Steve Mayne

Waterlooville Precinct’s Wright Choice Family Butcher, which opened in the Summer of 2015, has closed. Wright Choice took over from C Knight & Son which closed in 2015.

The butcher, Gary Wright, cited large overheads including rent and rates as the reason for closing the shop. Gary is still trading, and is running a mobile van service for raw/cooked meats as well as the Hog Roast hire. Gary can be contacted on the same number to order, 07980 405819, and sends his thanks to all those that supported him over the last year.

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  1. Charlotte Jigglypuff Widdows says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    It’s getting ridiculous!

  2. Kevin Gent says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    Bye bye Waterlooville

  3. Callum Lee says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    (again)

  4. Rita Donnelly says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    oh i like that butchers

  5. James Reed says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    It will get a new butcher there eventually?

  6. Dean Richardson says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    Good luck to Gary.

    Shame our council is not interested in improving, nor even maintaining, our town centre.

  7. Kelly Tice says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    Oh no, poor Gary 😭, our town is slowly disappearing

  8. Adrian Parish says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    Someone contributed to a post a while back regarding the plans for Waterlooville town centre. It’s not all doom and gloom but don’t think it will improve anytime soon.

  9. Trev Buckley says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    How long until it’s a estate agents?

  10. Martina Crossley says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 19:56

    What a shame! Nice bloke and the meat is lovely. Another shop to shut 😢

  11. Deborah Cooper says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 20:56

    Margaret Cooper

  12. Jeannette Kiany says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 20:56

    Another one bites the dust!

  13. Stuart M Ellis says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 20:56

    Thats why mist are closing with the rates and so forth. DO HBC want waterlooville to be a ghost town like Havant!

    • Andrew Gent says

      Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 09:56

      Yes

  14. Matt Charman says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 21:56

    Greedy councils and landords are killing Waterlooville… and in fact most other retail areas. They don’t care though.

  15. Peter Holt says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 21:56

    Jane Holt

  16. Ray Tilburey Watson says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 21:56

    I know my parents use the butchers there and have done for many years. They always said that the guy ran a great little shop and they wouldn’t go anywhere else.
    Unfortunately the local government is totally oblivious to the fact that they are responsible for the demise of our small towns and villages. Just cut the business rates and encourage people to set up small businesses.

  17. Scott Slater says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 22:57

    People need to use the little shop we have only owned slater’s plaice what was royals since March and as it so quite and not making much money were having to think about closing too we now even open at 8 am for breakfast rolls to help pay the bills but the money is not coming in were running out of ideas and time and the big one money

    • Clair Payne says

      Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 21:57

      I’ve only just found out you do gluten free. If you shout about it on the Gf/Coeliac facebook pages I hope it will drum up good business for you. There isn’t a good gf chippy in the area, I had been traveling down to Portsmouth or Fareham.

  18. Samantha Parker says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 23:57

    That was a lovely butchers shop..😡😡

  19. Zoe J Ashman says

    Monday 5th September 2016 at 23:57

    Lower the rent and rates it’s getting ridiculous

  20. Richard Almond says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 06:56

    Wendy Almond

  21. Sallie Anne Morley says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 07:56

    Waterlooville used to be a lovely little town centre….it’s a bloody mess now…..full of charity shops….coffee shops, nail bars etc etc….Greedy Councils and Landlords are to blame without a doubt. Good luck Gary, sorry to see you go xx

  22. Jane Cook says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 07:56

    What a shame – he was very good

  23. Karen Hampson says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 08:56

    Like most people l believe it’s all down to the ridiculous rental/rates etc retailers have to pay. Some gormless no neck pillock sits in his office rubbing his hands together making up stupid costs without thinking of the shop owner. HBC … dimwits 😡😟

  24. Andrew Gent says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 09:56

    We, as consumers, are just as responsible for places closing when we want to park right outside just one shop which does everything. Interwebbything shopping is also to blame.
    I think it is called progress, but has killed towns and villages in England.
    Why does Waterlooville need four large supermarkets? Especially ones which do a bit of everything and even then not particularly well.

    Planners care little for those who cannot drive to an out of centre outlet, or the elderly, unless it is more flats of course.

    As I have often said, knock it all down and start again with decent individual shops and free car parks

  25. Linda Sanders says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 10:57

    We may have lost Gary in the shop but he is still trading as a mobile butchers, you can phone through your order and he will deliver.

  26. Mike Wright says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 13:37

    As has been pointed out many times, often by About Waterlooville.

    Havant council do not own the shop, rent is nothing to with them, it is set by absentee landlords who probably have no ideea, or care where Waterlooville is apert from an entry on a spreadsheet

    Likewise rates, these are set by UK government not HBC. HBC collect them on behalf of UK Gov, they do not set the amount

    Just saying, no point whinging about the council, it is beyond there control

  27. Mike Wright says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 13:39

    Could be a good idea if Gary posted a sign in his old shop ref delivery & phone, assuming he still has access of course

  28. Wynn Williams says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 19:56

    He should have become a charity that is the only way small shops can exist in Waterlooville

  29. Lesley Parks says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 21:57

    If he was a charity the overheads would be reduced.

  30. Clair Payne says

    Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 21:57

    I don’t think Havant Borough Council give a toss about Waterloovile sadly. All the money and time seems to go on Havant and Emsworth.

  31. Ivor Soutar says

    Wednesday 7th September 2016 at 13:57

    Use it or loose it.

  32. Wynn Williams says

    Wednesday 7th September 2016 at 18:57

    The trouble is as I have been told the small shops get charged the same business rates as asda! But also the landlord wants to convert the Wellington way arcade shops to housing so is increasing rents we now have a town of charity shops and estate agents

  33. Dean Croney says

    Sunday 11th September 2016 at 15:56

    End of era my dad worked down mr butch next to tricorn car park ,,with Charlotte street market next door with George fruit and veg in the 80s that shop was busy all day taking 10k on a Saturday those were the days miss the ugly sedy tricorn but it had character ☀️ Butcher shops have been taken over by hyper markets

  34. Jennie Manuel says

    Thursday 15th September 2016 at 12:56

    This is criminal. Another excellent independant trader being forced out. This should be be stopped. We are a town centre with just about every charity shop, estate agents, banks and little else. Someone on this blog mentions more flats in Wellington Way. Will this mean more businesses being forced out. Not on…

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