Letter: Supermarkets, imagination and town planning
Wednesday 2nd June 2010, 10:09AM BST.
Letter: So yet another major development is proposed involving supermarkets, this time in Whitchurch.
Are the town planners in Shropshire so devoid of inspiration and basic wit that all they can do is make plans that allow the supermarket barons to reap havoc on lovely old town centres, which once boasted a plethora of small shops and interdependent traders, making our market town what they once were?
Each time I come to visit my friends I notice another shop or two has closed in Whitchurch or Wem.
What is it about the Shropshire planners that can’t see this, or is it, in reality, won’t see this?
Keith Wood
Whitchurch
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“wreak havoc”, shurely?
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you already have a tescos why not a few tesco expresses dotted around the rural villiages instead giving people more choice of product instead of having to travel miles to the nearest shop oh no- there wouldnt be any profit would there
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Let’s just hand the whole retail sector over to Tescos – food, consumer durables, banking, insurance. Perhaps Tesco could turn the whole country into one big supermarket.
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I don’t live in whitchurch i go to visit family i am from middlesbrough so when i visit whitchurch it is so lovely to get away from a busy town so leave whitchurch has it is
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