Friday, February 17, 2006

Tesco due to open Castle Douglas store 27 Feb 2006

... but will they play by the rules? Reading the All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group Report "High Street Britain : 2015" we wonder.

From page 43 of the Report...

Portwood in the North Weszt has seen clear abuse of the planning system from Tesco. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council imposed a limit on the size of the sales area ... it was revealed that Tesco contravened the restriction... commenting on this, Lucy Neville -Rolfe of Tesco said

" The people who were fitting the store decided that they needed more space, mainly for back room operation, and so therefore they built the store bigger than the original planning permision. I do not know quite why, but they did".


Clearly Tesco believe planning restrictions don't apply to them !

2 Comments:

Blogger Sammy Ringer said...

Hi - I am hoping to get an update on your campaign and actually get a contact phone number - we are developing a documentary 'Clone Town' that looks closely at the rise of the super chains in the UK and here in Australia - hope someone can get back to me as there are no 'contact' details on this site
Thanks

9:13 PM  
Blogger Sammy Ringer said...

Hi - we are developing a documentary 'Clone Town' that looks at the impact of the super chains in the UK and here in Australia.
Desperately need to get onto a real person to talk with them about the Castle Douglas (or other campaigns) -
sammyringer@optusnet.com.au

9:15 PM  

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