From: John Chalmers
Date: 6 July 2010 17:16:11 BST
To: development.control@southhams.gov.uk
Subject: A6076CH Comment on application 28/0956/10/O
Site Address: Cookworthy Road, Tescos Site, Kingsbridge, TQ7 1QN
Case Officer: Mr Malcolm Elliott
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The Society strongly objects to this application.
Tesco accepted the conditions with the original outline application, 28/2431/06/O, but have started development work on site without fulfilling Condition 11.
Tesco are therefore in clear breach of the approval conditions and the application must be refused.
John Chalmers
South Hams Society
9 Croft Road
Salcombe TQ8 8DZ
Note on Tesco's application for a store in Kingsbridge
Site Address: Industrial Trading Estate, Poplar Drive, Kingsbridge
The South Hams Society objects to this application on the grounds that a second supermarket in Kingsbridge will seriously damage the financial viability of many Fore Street local retail traders in these hard times. The site is outside the town centre and customers will be able to drive in, park their cars, shop and leave without ever visiting Fore Street - indeed access to Fore Street is so difficult that few will attempt it.
The effects will not only be confined to the traders themselves but also their suppliers and the contractors who provide them with services and goods. The effect as a whole in these difficult times will have a severe impact on the local economy - and indeed on the Council's income from business rates.
The advent of Morrisons has improved the situation for shoppers to the extent that a new large supermarket is unnecessary. However a small supermarket outlet in Fore Street would be a useful addition to local facilities.
If not used for employment land the supermarket site would be an attractive brown-field site for affordable housing being near the town centre and employment areas.
The Society strongly urges that this application should be refused.
John Chalmers
South Hams Society
9 Croft Road
Salcombe TQ8 8DZ