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Public meeting tonight over Oswestry supermarket plans
Monday 13th September 2010, 12:08PM BST.
The campaign to prevent a huge superstore from opening in Oswestry is gathering pace with a public meeting due to be held in the town tonight.
Shropshire council is asking the Government to call in all four applications for a new supermarket for Oswestry after one of the developers, J Ross, appealed against refusal of planning permission for its scheme for a store and a cinema on the Central car park site.
The meeting has been organised by the Os21 campaign group. It says Oswestry has enough supermarkets and wants to see all four applications turned down.
The other three are for land at the town’s Smithfield livestock market, the Richard Burbidge factory and the JT Hughes and Guttercrest land.
Now it looks like the final decision over a supermarket for Oswestry will rest with a government planning inspector.
A meeting organised by Os21 will be held at the Walls Restaurant in Oswestry at 7pm tonight.
Peter Lloyd one of those against a new supermarket said: “It’s depressing that that Shropshire Council’s planners do not seem to want this decision, so vital for the future of the town, to be taken locally.
“But can we blame them, when the appeals system almost guarantees that big decisions are taken out of their hands anyway?”
Mr Lloyd added: “The longer this drags on, the more it costs.”
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