Tenbury Wells Tesco store plans to be discussed
Tuesday 4th January 2011, 6:13PM GMT.
Controversial plans to build a Tesco store on the south Shropshire border are due to be discussed at a rescheduled meeting tomorrow.
The scheme for the store at the former cattle market site in Tenbury Wells, near Ludlow, is set to be decided by a planners at a meeting at Tenbury High School at 6pm.
The original meeting in December was cancelled due to bad weather.
Opinions on the store have been sharply divided among residents, with some in support and others strongly opposed.
Tesco bosses have said the plans would create up to 150 jobs in the area.
The supermarket giant first submitted plans to Malvern Hills District Council (MHDC) in April.
But it had to go back to the drawing board after it was refused permission to demolish the Russell Baldwin & Bright building on the site.
At the end of last year, it emerged that planners at MHDC had recommended the new application for the Tesco store should be refused.
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Let’s have some more balance here in this article if possible.. I thought news reporting was supposed to be impartial and explain both sides?
Tesco do claim to gain this amount of jobs [which even many of the 'for' people now don't believe to be true]. The numbers are based on the square footage of the potential development in a generic calculation as I understand it.
Maybe this web article could have also mentioned the many [or even one of?] the detrimental things that a large Tesco would mean for the town? If you look at the ‘progress’ that Tesco have brought to Llandrindod Wells not far off with a huge loss of footfall in the highstreet and traders up in arms etc – then this might be a start.. Add to that the potential net loss in jobs in the town with craft bakers/butchers etc not being able to compete with Tesco’s global buying power and closing-up.. The list goes on..
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