Tesco considering appeal over Tenbury Wells store plan
Wednesday 9th February 2011, 11:03AM GMT.
Tesco bosses today said they were still considering whether to fight for permission to build a store in Tenbury Wells.
Plans for a store on the cattle market site in the town were thrown out by a meeting of Malvern Hills District Council planning committee at a meeting in early January.
Today Sophie Akokhia, corporate affairs manager for Tesco, said: “Members of the development team are continuing to discuss options.
“We still believe that site is the best possible one. There’s no doubt that Tenbury needs a new store and we are committed to meeting the needs of local shoppers.”
She said they were expecting to make a decision over whether to appeal in the coming weeks.
The proposals would create a store with a sales area of 1,453 square metres along with 101 parking spaces.
Tesco had to resubmit the plans for the cattle market site after running into problems in July.
The proposals have split opinion in Tenbury Wells and the surrounding area with some strongly opposed and others in favour. More than 80 people attended the planning meeting in January to hear the decision.
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I hope that your paper article is more balanced than this web one? You pay the merest attention to the fact that many on the town are opposed to a supermarket at the end of this web article..
In reality the scenario is as follows:
1. Over 800 local people wrote planning objections to the development before Tesco plans were rejected by the Area Planning Committee in Jan 2011.
2. Malvern Hills’ Planning Department recommended refusal of plans.
3. Tenbury Town Council rejected the Tesco plans.
4. And now a local survey shows that nearly 200 people [well after the refusal] still don’t want a large supermarket on the site but would rather the site be used in a blended way to re-use buildings and improve local tourism etc.
Source: http://tenbury-futures.blogspot.com/
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