If you value the health of the highstreet in Tenbury then please consider sending-in a planning objection to Tesco's latest plans. It's quick to do and free - just download & print one of the 2x different objection letters [top right on this site/blog]. Add your address and name & date it and then drop it in to either Books, Books, Books or The Little Sweet Shop in Tenbury's High Street before 7th Nov, 2010. We'll do the rest!
Feel free to add your own additional concerns to either of the MS Word objection letters too [but please remember that your comments will have to relate to one or more of the planning criteria submitted by Tesco this time round].
Come on people let's get behind this and make tesco go away
ReplyDeletetesco is comming you have lost so [go away] it is you that is destroying tenbury
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ReplyDeleteIf you look at the Malvern Hills application site then you'll find 27 comments from local people on there already. There's only one from the local crime prevention officer which isn't an outright objection or complaint and none at all supporting the plans..
ReplyDeleteAdd to that the consultation period doesn't end until 8th Nov and that the decision is due late Dec 2010 then I hardly think that you can say that 'Tesco is coming'.
You is destroying Tenbury. Who is this 'you'
ReplyDeleteMmmn, anonymous isn't very clear who 'you' is.. Is it an individual or group maybe? In which case - what physical things are these individuals doing to 'destroy Tenbury'? Does trying to save the local shops and small businesses locally count as somehow 'destroying' maybe? I'm confused too..
ReplyDeleteTOWN centre traders held crisis talks in Llandrindod last week to discuss their anger and anxiety about their loss of customers since the arrival of Tesco.
ReplyDeleteThe new store is situated on the wrong side of the train tracks for the traditional flow of footfall through the town, the meeting heard on Thursday, October 7.
Since the superstore’s opening week of trading, shops have recorded an average loss of earnings of 25 per cent, with some specific businesses having lost up to 60 per cent in revenue.
The supermarket has definitely brought shoppers from further away, said County Councillor Mike Hodges, owner of Hodges Food and Wine Store on Tremont Road, but many of them do not visit the town centre after they’ve finished their shop.
“Roughly 60 per cent of customers who do their major weekly shop at a big supermarket will then go straight home,” said Cllr Hodges, who attended the traders’ meeting on Thursday.
“We’re losing 25 per cent, week on week, which has surprised a lot of people because they thought our business wouldn’t be affected.”
Around 25 businesses from across the town were represented at the meeting, many of whom will not have experienced a recession or major competition before, said Cllr Hodges.
“Myself and my wife have experienced this loss of custom twice before but many other businesses in the town haven’t. We’ve had to substantially cut back and only destiny will tell if our business will survive.
“My grandfather had the business throughout the Depression and held down four jobs to make ends meet.
“It’s a difficult time for all businesses, particularly the town centre traders who are finding life hard post-Tesco. Big names have shown an interest in opening stores in Llandrindod but we need them on the Middleton Street side of town.”
This was the second meeting in a fortnight to be organised by Llandrindod businesses, who are not operating as an official Chamber of Trade but simply Llandrindod Trading Group.
Redirecting the flow of traffic down Middleton Street could help the situation in the town centre, added Cllr Hodges.
“Myself, Cllr Millington and Cllr Gary Price have suggested this as a simple measure which could save Middleton Street.”
Meetings have been arranged for the coming weeks with Powys County Council’s Highways department and the results could be known as soon as a week on Thursday.
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Posted by: RAbel at 01:12 on 17 October 2010 Report
The shop owners in Llandrindod should not be surprised by the adverse trading impact on their businesses by the opening of the Tesco store as this has been experienced in very many locations throughout the UK. I just hope they find a solution and that many are able to continue trading. From a former resident of many years ago when J O Davies was probably the largest food shop in town.
Posted by: kevin at 01:54 on 20 October 2010 Report
Of course a bulk of people go home straight after shopping in the supermarket Cllr Hodges. Do you expect them to meander around the place whilst the frozen food melts? What a muppet !!!!
Posted by: roydav at 20:07 on 24 October 2010
A timely comment and surely indicative of the scenario if Tesco were to win out here in Tenbury [or even just outside in Burford].
ReplyDeleteTesco's own research concludes that in towns with predominantly bespoke small food shops [where they move in] suffer the most. Think about the Barn Farm Shop, Swift's Craft Bakers, Clockhouse Butchers, Food Hall, Cakeydoodledoo, Fish Shop etc - there's a good cross section of them in Tenbury..
Emergency services are being snarled up in traffic jams in Newtown due to ongoing problems with a new set of traffic lights in the town.
ReplyDeleteCrews are being caught up and de-layed in the town centre but bosses say lives are not being put at risk as a result.
New traffic lights in Pool Road are being blamed for the increasing chaos and calls have now been made for action to be taken.
The increased traffic problem has been blamed on Tesco opening its superstore last month before work on a new set of traffic lights was finished.
The Mid Wales Trunk Road Agency and Tesco are now working together to rectify the problem and have apologised for the extra delays.
A spokesman for the Mid and West Wales Fire Service said today it was hopeful the situation would soon be resolved.
He said: “Traffic chaos does add time on to our journey and we’re hopeful a solution can be found to Newtown’s current traffic problem.”
Dyfed-Powys Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service said they were aware of the problems and were looking into the situation.
Mike Steward, of the Mid Wales Trunk Road Agency, said it would be doing all it could to solve the problem over the next few days.
He said: We are making every effort to ensure the signals operate effectively and this work will continue over the coming days
“We will continue to review the junction and seek to improve the situation as quickly as possible.”
Councillor Joy Jones, the Major of Newtown, said she was worried about the extra delays.
She said: “Lives are being put in danger because I’ve witnessed first hand how emergency services are struggling to get through the congestion.
“The traffic chaos has got increasingly worse ever since the new set of traffic lights were switched on to coincide with Tesco opening last month.
“We’ve been promised that the situation will get better when the lights are fully synchronised but so far nothing has changed.”
She said the traffic was making people avoid travelling through the town and coming to shop in the centre
DONT LET THIS HAPPEN IN TENBURY!!!!