There's plenty of passing trade on foot as well as scope for car owners to stop outside for the 5 or 10 minutes they'd need to buy a few delicacies. The free and immediately accessible parking angle represents an advantage over all of London Road and half of Dartmouth Road. I imagine shop rents would be substantially cheaper here too, so attractive for the small businessperson viz. the Polish Deli on Sunderland Road.
Exactly. It has parking, it is in an interesting, if not actually beautiful, Victorian building that is unlikely to be torn down by developers, it is right next to the station (even if some of you are more used to approaching from the other side) and there are to be lots of new properties built across the road. Not to mention proximity to other well known local businesses like Kafe La and Finches.
It may not be ideal for such a business, but it isn't beyond the realms of possibility. Anyway, I only left them there as suggestions using other local businesses as examples. Anyone have a better idea of what it might be? Poundland might seem a well received alternative?!