Many thanks to Peter Trevelyan, new Chair of the St Albans Civic Society, and local resident and Stop Tesco veteran Chris Adkins. They both wrote letters to the St Albans & Harpenden Review protesting at Tesco's claim in the paper last week that the city council's recent retail report (great alliteration!) supports its plans.
Peter writes,
"...the council's retail and leisure study did indeed identify a qualitative need for a large foodstore within or immediately adjacent to St Albans city centre. However, no suitable site was found either within the city centre or on the edge of centre.
"[The study] argued that identifying another out-of-centre supermarket location within the urban area of St Albans [such as the Eversheds site] would not adequately address this deficiency and would not have any clear sustainability benefits."
Chris adds,
"The Eversheds site may be within the city boundary, but it is not in the city centre and cannot be connected to it... driving to the Eversheds site (and then home to to unpack chilled and frozen food) will not increase the attraction of the city centre, but is more likely to draw people from it".
Please, Tesco, will you concede that this report does not justify your store!
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