Of the 17 current commercial spaces, 14 are vacant. A tarpaulin hangs across one window, behind which what appears to be a tea shop, and two stores are up and running – a bubble tea shop and a cosmetics store. A sign on the hoarding surrounding the site, bearing the Chinese backer’s name, Nanjing Dadi Construction Group, includes two telephone numbers. The first is a mobile number for a man who claims to be unconnected to the development or the company, the other an 0800 number which connects to a computer store. Caroline Williams/Stuff A Wilson car park now sits on the site where the second stage of the Rose Garden development was planned.