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Kirkham-based Goldrush Amusements, which currently has an amusement arcade further down Market Street, will take over the former Booths supermarket on the corner of Market Street and St George's Street. Chorley Council gave the go-ahead for the scheme this week. Today the town's Chamber of Trade said they were "very disappointed" with the move in what is considered a prime shopping area..Honorary secretary of the group Jose Hampson said: "This is a big disappointment. We have already got a big amusement arcade in Chapel Street. The town is already covered for that and we did not need another one like it. "We would have liked to have had one of the top retail chains move in there, and we are disappointed this was never discussed with the Chamber of Trade. It think it is a really bad decision." The former Booths store has been empty since the retailer moved to its new multi-million pound base near the Market Walk shopping centre last year.

Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle said he would have preferred to see a new shop move into the empty unit.

He said: "This was a shop up to Booths moving.

"This is not going to attract shoppers to that part of Market Street. We are bitterly disappointed they did not hold out to make sure that end of the street does not decline in retail terms."

A spokesman for Goldrush said: "We have found that at the other end of Market Street we have had a positive influence."