Ventura Retail Park — Local services in Tamworth

I really enjoy Ventura Park for a spot of retail therapy there's just enough to keep you occupied for a few hours, with ample parking throughout. Jason's Jackets is a lovely little portacabin snack bar opposite the Asda, that serves really tasty food, jacket potatoes, tea, coffee, and is very reasonably priced. The only downside to Ventura Park is there are no public toilets, but toilets in Asda & Marks & Spencers are readily available. Crossing the road from the Asda Fuel Station to reach Aldi & Home Bargains can be very daunting, and would be exceptionally dangerous to a blind person, as the Pelican Crossing that crosses the 2 main roads does not emit an audible warning to cross the road at all, and other than looking at the traffic lights and the stationary traffic, something the blind can't see is the time to cross, and I maintain that this issue needs rectifying. Other than that Ventura Park I will continue to visit you on a...

Good amount of free parking spaces and access to all the shops. There is a good sized M&S, Matalan, Next (with a Costa) , New Look, Black's, WH Smith, Curry's, a Costa and Gregg's cafés Boots, Smyths Toys, River Island and H&M to name a few, and as of 16th July we now have a fabulous new Superdrug openened which is near the new Primark. Access to a big Asda, and over the road at the Jolly Sailor Park is Sainsburys, McDonalds, Pets at Home, Poundland, Argos, TKMaxx. It gets very busy at certain times of the year, Christmas can be stressful, but you get absolutely everything you need without having to travel into a big city. There is another Costa, Nandos and Pizza Express near Sainsburys and then on the roundabout is the Premier Inn with the Ladybridge pub which is a great place to take your family and eat or leave your husband...

The seventh circle of hell.

Traffic getting in is terrible. The roundabout is an absolute nightmare. It's worse still at Christmas when the traffic tails right back and blocks the A5.

Once you get in, assuming you've done so without getting involved in a bump, scrape or a road rage incident, you'll find there's nowhere to park and you'll be circling various car parks for ages and getting quite annoyed.

If you do get parked, you'll be walking around a selection of utterly soul less tin sheds, inhaling petrol fumes and trying to avoid getting run over as you cross the roads between Asda, Marks & Spencer, the two disjointed bits of the main Ventura park, the Home Bargains bit and the Sainsbury's / Matalan bit.

Oh, and there's no toilets. Just those in...