Shropshire Star. Saturday 6th March 2010"Hundreds of protesters marched through Oswestry today to demonstrate their opposition to plans for a new multi-million pound supermarket.The march was organised by a coalition of campaign groups who claim the new store will destroy the town’s small, independent traders."
unfortantley all the campaining did not do much good up in oswestry as the store is being built at the moment
ReplyDeleteIt's a terrible shame.. The community there obviously felt strongly about the demise of their highstreet shops post Tesco etc.. It looks like Oswestry will be just another market town with it's food retail retail polarised towards Tesco [or whichever supermarket was selected]. There must be another, more productive use for the Cattle Market land in Tenbury.. Something that actually supports the community and funnels money back in to the community as opposed to syphoning the majority of it off to a big Corp HQ in Cheshunt or wherever..
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that could divert the inevitable success of Tesco's application is a "white knight" application for something better and more suitable, but given the maths I just cannot think what that could be. Suggestions please.
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