Council looking to resolve problem of pedestrian access to Gallagher Retail Park

Shoppers may soon have safer access to a retail park than having to vault a perimeter wall.

Agents for Gallagher Retail Park are in discussion with the city council about the problem, which is due to the construction of the city’s new swimming pool.

That project has blocked the main pedestrian access between the park and the city centre, prompting confused shoppers to search for an alternative route.

They have been exploring the paths around the former Borders bookshop, but one leads to a goods yard and the other comes to a brick wall.

Consequently, hundreds of shoppers have been vaulting the four-foot barrier.

The retail park’s owners agree a safer solution needs to be found.

They are in discussion with the council, and it in understood they are investigating removing a section of the wall.

Shoppers have been encouraged to leave via Dock Street but many have been unwilling to do so because of the longer walk to the city centre.