'Our once-thriving village is now a ghost town - locals are being forced out'
"I worry for the younger generation growing up. There won't be much here for them."I think it might be because of the rising rates which is forcing shops to shut.Husband George, who used to work on farms, was furious when the local post office closed down."We saw a woman in her 90s recently who was standing at the bus stop waiting, just so she could go to the post office."At one point there was three or four in Berwick and now there's only one relatively close by.
"I used to be able to get one bus to town and get what I needed but now I can't do that because the shops are empty. There's also no affordable houses for the younger people so people are being pushed out of the town.""We've never had a problem with footfall here but there has been a decline in the town," she continued.
"Maybe if the landlords were charged for having empty units then that would encourage them to lower the rates."
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