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Planning decision
To the Chairman of the Development Control Committee. What a disgraceful decision to reject the planning proposal for a decent supermarket in Olney when 84% of the residents wanted it to happen! What a democracy when one man’s vote can go against the wishes of the vast majority of people in the town!
Taking your points one at a time.
1. The large impact on retail in the town.
a) The Co-op and Tesco businesses do not stock things that we regularly buy a good example of which is fuel, which means a car trip to Bedford, Wellingborough or Milton Keynes for things we like and need. This in turn translates into regrettable consequences of additional pollution of the environment.
b) A Sainsbury’s supermarket would bring people into Olney to do their main shopping and no doubt visit other businesses in the town for non-supermarket items.
c) Regular and elderly people in the town would no doubt continue to use the Co-op and Tesco as now for day to day shopping. Further, it’s up to these businesses to make sure that they are competitive in order to protect their share of retail sales.
d) Any business that brings employment and visitors to the town must be good for everyone.
2. Issues of traf c
a) We have problems now with traf c and car parking. Surely Sainsbury’s car park would add spaces to the town. Anyway traf c could hardly be a worse problem especially considering the we are to be subjected to several hundred new homes in the area, each no doubt with one or more cars. It’s up to the council to come up with a scheme to solve a problem with the volume of traf c regardless of the proposal to build a much needed supermarket.
3. Contrary to planning policies in a rural area.
a) We may soon have the opportunity to make you eat your words on this subject when you decide that it’s OK to build houses all over our countryside. I refer of course to the decision to build an unknown number of houses over the next few years. I’ve heard a number of up to 10,000 being built in Olney and extending right up to the A428. This really would be desecration of the open countryside and rural area around Olney.
One supermarket that the residents want to be built shrinks into insigni cance in view of this fact.
I’d be interested to know how many of the members of your committee live and/or work in Olney and would therefore be affected by the proposed supermarket. Have you the right to go against the wishes of our community in this way. I look forward to a response to this email. Peter Courtis
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