Council May Buy Tesco Land for Homeless!

The Herts Advertiser has an article online here that follows up our post yesterday. The article also demonstrates that Tesco is not making friends in the council, quoting Chris Brazier, the council's planning portfolio holder as saying,

"The earliest planning application now will be the Spring. I am not at all happy about this because we are being left in limbo."

"I think what Tesco do is land-bank and if they get a lot of resistance they go away for a while and then come back with another consultation exercise. Even after that there might not be a planning application."

According to the article, Cllr Brazier also "warned Tesco that the council was considering using new powers given to local authorities by Government to repossess empty properties and use them to house the homeless." Go for it, we say!

UPDATE: Further coverage of this in the Herts Advertiser. It looks like this might actually go somewhere!