Decision due over town development
Thursday 11th March 2010, 10:15AM GMT.
How the planned Tesco store would look on the Richard Burbidge site
A state-of-the art five screen cinema is just one of the spin-off benefits for residents in a Shropshire town if plans for a Tesco supermarket get the go-ahead.
The scheme proposed by Richard Burbidge Ltd for Oswestry also includes two restaurants and refurbishment of a listed building for community and leisure use adjacent to the site in Whittington Road, as well as a Reel Cinema with at least two 3D screens.
Parking will be provided for more than 500 vehicles as well as a dedicated pedestrian and cycle way from the site to the town centre.
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Brilliant news – bring it on.
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to complete the regeneration they could realign the shrewsbury to chester railwat to go through oswestry and reopen oswestry railway staion
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Is it the Tesco that you think is brilliant, or the cinema? Wouldn’t it be better to have a cinema in the town centre so that it is in easy walking distance from pubs and restaurants?
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I heard R burbidge are going to transfer manufactoring to the Far east, and only have a head office near here.
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Maybe Carlos but I guess Sue lives in the real world.
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Both actually – I think the we need mpre choice for shopping and a 3D cinema will be brilliant
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Do the ” former railway buildings ” belong to R.Burbidges? Since when?
Which ones are they promising to 500 gymnasts? Also, since they’d announced their relocation way before their deal with Tesco, why are they now saying that they’ll guarantee jobs to present employees only if this monstrous plan goes ahead?
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The cinema I agree with. The Richard Burbidge site isn’t really that much of a walk from the town centre. But is a Tesco really needed? Oswestry already has a Sainsbury’s, a Morrisons, an Iceland, at least 3 Co-Ops, a street market….Tesco’s unquenchable desire to saturate the market is worrying.
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The real world, Sue, or the real world according to Tesco Burbidge disinformation? The article states that the scheme “will bring shoppers back into Oswestry”. The idea that shoppers need to be brought back to Oswestry is a myth that suits their argument. It is UNTRUE. Over 90% of people in Oswestry do their main grocery shopping in the town, though obviously not at Tesco because we haven’t got one. I can’t see how having a Tesco in Oswestry, one in Ellesmere, one in Wrexham and one in Cefn Mawr gives anybody more choice. Tesco is the unacceptable face of big business. They are caught up in an upward growth spiral.
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I’m all for this “Cinema” but i think you should think more about were your going to place it! meaning down the cattle market- it doesnt seem like your putitng much thought into peoples jobs that will be lost and also peoples livelyhood that you will taking away!
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This seems more like propaganda for the Tesco offering than ‘news’. Shropshire Star, a question, who is the author of this article, and what are their motives?
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We need everything we can get in Oswestry because we have gone backwards in this town thanks to the council, don’t stop this we need it. Oswestry is ghost town, it’s crying shame when you have to go out of town to buy anything, because you just can’t get what you want in this town anymore, I went to buy a pair of gloves saturday and could not get a pair anywhere. Bring Tescos here and other shops will follow, the cinema will be good for the town and other entertainments will come.
So support the Tesco bid at the Burbidge site Bring it on
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This article is utter rubbish, it dismisses the other proposals as if they didn’t exist! I’m amazed that people don’t realise the benefit of the other sites like the cattle market – it’s right next to the College, and who do you think will use the cinema the most? Burbridge is close to, erm, what, Colour Supplies and houses?
And no Natasha, people won’t lose their livelyhoods at the market, it’s got a huge piece of unused land which is the proposed site – in fact the market will get a facelift on the back of it! Or maybe you’d prefer it were left as it is for travellers to squat?
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We need Burbidges to move from a domestic area to an industrial situation which will be a better environment for all the house owners within sight and earshot of the factory element.We do not need a big industrial set up in a living area.Who or whatever decides to be involved,its got to be better than the eyesore that is there at the moment.The sooner the better they relocate cannot come quick enough as far as I am concerned
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