Following on from yesterday's comments in the St Albans Review and Observer from Conservative Cllr Teresa Heritage suggesting compulsory purchase of the Eversheds site, Stop Tesco's Ian Langford follows up with more supporting evidence for this in a letter to the Herts Advertiser. We reproduce this in full...
Sir - In September 2000 St Albans District Council granted planning permission for 46 flats and 19 dwelling houses on the former Eversheds site in London Road. The site was subsequently purchased by Tesco. The assumption of housing on this site, along with the former Odeon Cinema car park, are included in the council's 2005 and 2006 Housing Capacity studies to deliver 7,000-plus new houses without building on the Green Belt.
In 2006 the Herts Advertiser reported "Cllr Chris Brazier wants to use compulsory purchase powers if Tesco does not come up with a plan for the land it owns off London Road. The area has become rundown since Tesco acquired the former Eversheds print works and surrounding area". Over a year later the area looks just as bad.
Tesco are yet to submit firm plans, and now the Conservative group leader on the council has made the same call for compulsory purchase.
Come on St Albans District Council, let's stop talking and start acting. Send Tesco a Christmas card containing a compulsory purchase order for the Eversheds site. Give the 5,000 plus local residents who have signed the petition against a Tesco superstore and have to live alongside this blighted area a great Christmas present, and into the bargain provide some affordable housing, reduce the pressure to build on the Green Belt and maybe even include a much needed primary school in the development as well.
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St Albans Council take on the mighty Tesco? Pull the other one; or wait for a fairy to fall off the organic Christmas Tree.
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