tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61428057699458428532024-03-13T00:02:05.084+00:00Tenbury FuturesA Proactive Alliance of Concerned Local Residents and Businesses <br>
from the Tenbury Area.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-2495593272458323242012-04-13T16:00:00.006+01:002012-04-23T22:16:58.978+01:00Before Tesco - Teme Bridge Congestion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #505050; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">The reworked Teme Bridge has certainly seen work undertaken, but it's now even narrower in places than in the past. Many in the town have seen HGV's mounting the pavements in the past to try and get around the bend in the bridge but here's another example [above] which happened recently despite 'improvements' to the bridge. Of concern in this example is the senior citizen in the disability scooter who is clearly unaware of the large HGV looming-up behind him while it tries to get around the bend in the bridge. Issues around congestion and safety of pedestrians on the structure have been voiced before and clearly aren't going away<span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The bridge has always seen busier periods in the day - this image showing just one of these in a late morning on a weekday. Tenbury Futures have long raised concerns about the Teme bridge's ability to cope with the growing modern traffic numbers if faces and here is just one of many ongoing snarl-ups caught on camera.. It's worthwhile pointing out of course that all this is happening <b>before</b> either any works are carried-out on the town's cattle market site or increases brought on by subsequent store traffic.. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">We raised the spectre of "<b>Massive additional congestion</b>" on our past posters in the town if a supermarket was given the go-ahead.. The bridge is clearly suffering issues around both traffic and safety of pedestrians even before a supermarket build - were we right to raise concerns? </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-42100316065775404062012-04-03T22:50:00.000+01:002012-04-03T22:50:49.858+01:00Tenbury Wells - Teme Bridge Letter<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please see below a copy of a letter sent to both Peter Blake, Head of Integrated Transport, Worcester County Council and the Shropshire County Council Bridge Section.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Sir/Madam,</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Teme Bridge Tenbury Wells</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I write to express my concern at the treatment of the refurbished Teme Bridge, Tenbury Wells as suitable for unrestricted use in both directions simultaneously.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Department of Transport and SCC literature indicate that a normal two-way road should be at least 5.5m wide and that below this width a road should not normally have a centre line. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Indeed, I understand that Worcs CC has specifically refused to provide a centre line elsewhere in response to more than one request from a parish council on the grounds that the road is less than 5.5m wide.<br />
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The Teme Bridge at the kink in the middle of the bridge appears to be 4.9m; in Shropshire just before the bridge proper, 4.8m - yet the bridge has a centre line.<br />
</span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <div>The maximum permitted width of an HGV (excluding mirrors) is 2.6m if refrigerated, 2.55m if not. The maximum permitted width of a bus is 2.55m.<br />
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Therefore two full-size lorries (or buses) can only pass on the bridge (or on the approach) if at least one uses the pavement.<br />
</div>Given the above, would you please explain how this part of the A4112 can merit a centre line or indeed how it can even be considered a two-way road.<br />
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If you do consider the road to be suitable for two-way simultaneous use, would you please advise how you reconcile this with the clear safety (and legal) issues of one or more of two passing HGVs or buses having to mount the pavement.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may not be aware, but at least three accidents occurred in the first 24 hours of the bridge being open again, in my view simply underlining the safety issue.<br />
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I look forward to your response; clearly time is of the essence if an injury or, worse, a fatality, is to be avoided.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Yours sincerely,<br />
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The Tenbury Futures Group.</span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-30168321636910561162012-03-08T12:06:00.011+00:002012-04-03T22:52:51.739+01:00Tesco Decision: 100's Left Disappointed...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yDuSgyP8EysT7id_KnhFEExtH6RiAx4FtLoCf03NHmFmG7eeYfuskftwp-WkiddcO4wQTBqra0sSClqBVYRUO_sB03UTkhX8sa0NrOaTDPMgYLeWX4wOHduVfJZOI-3qBUXSxg95-5A/s1600/100s-dissapointed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5yDuSgyP8EysT7id_KnhFEExtH6RiAx4FtLoCf03NHmFmG7eeYfuskftwp-WkiddcO4wQTBqra0sSClqBVYRUO_sB03UTkhX8sa0NrOaTDPMgYLeWX4wOHduVfJZOI-3qBUXSxg95-5A/s400/100s-dissapointed.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Listening to the roars of applause every time speakers or councillors mentioned anything against the Tesco plan last night, you'd expect it to have sent a clear message to the planning committee on local feelings. Sadly, after hours of often intricate debate, the plan was eventually accepted by a majority of committee members though [despite spirited arguments as well as votes by some of their number against the plan]. This came as a bitter disappointment to the many 100's of local, regional and national individuals who wrote to Malvern Hills DC to object to this plan. Naturally we feel down - but we're not out and our position is now as follows:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</style> </div><ol start="1" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We still feel passionately this result will see the inevitable loss of one of the few remaining small country town highstreets with a butchers, bakers, fishmongers, veg shop and all the other independent stores that once thrived throughout Britain. <br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We are not convinced that Tesco’s suggested employment scenario will benefit the town and believe that more jobs will be lost than gained locally - in line with the British Retail Consortium’s own figures.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We will be taking professional advice in the next few days on the possibility of judicial review, particularly in the light of Malvern Hills change of attitude in granting permission for a larger store with even less parking provision than the Tesco plan they previously rejected.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The more appropriate solution for Tenbury would have been a smaller retail solution while creating parking and sensibly and sustainably re-using the town's distinctive heritage buildings in one of the town’s key tourist sites..<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The decision to accept the plans has now committed us to traffic chaos around the bridge end of the town. We'd hate to be in a situation in which we'd have to say "we told you so".<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Tesco's own development company rep Daffyd Williams has described the development in Tenbury as a "one stop shop" in which shoppers presumably park-up, shop and drive-off laden-down with Tesco goods. We can't see how this equates with other high profile Tesco claims that "the supermarket will encourage shoppers into our highstreet food shops".<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We will also be asking whether the Council has achieved best value in terms of the s.106 monies when compared with similar towns, such as Southam – and whether a failure here would make the decision taken at the committee invalid were judicial review to be sought.<br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We would like to thank all our supporters for their help – for the letters they have written, for turning up to the planning committee (in which they made their preferences abundantly clear) and for wanting to do more than allow Tenbury to become another bland and soulless high street.</span></li>
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</div><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Now only time will tell what happens to the heart of the town in the orchard, Tenbury Wells.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tenbury Futures, 8th March, 2012</span> </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-5892052208663164012012-03-02T22:30:00.009+00:002012-03-03T00:01:47.175+00:00Tenbury's Last Chance...<div style="color: red; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGGn8LJaq1W884ui6TV9j4cmvqCsQEo0Wsz9ieKYvzBq-wT26zJp04wzgm1fRLoMvI4r50xmZoGy6wf-5mZdEaYInNGRL_CxKxR077eW7rVXAYQxKtD_X-GMR2fViGwuayOgbiXWkpEk/s1600/keep-tesco-out-small.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirGGn8LJaq1W884ui6TV9j4cmvqCsQEo0Wsz9ieKYvzBq-wT26zJp04wzgm1fRLoMvI4r50xmZoGy6wf-5mZdEaYInNGRL_CxKxR077eW7rVXAYQxKtD_X-GMR2fViGwuayOgbiXWkpEk/s640/keep-tesco-out-small.png" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Planning Committee Members,<br />
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<b>You have a critically important decision to make on <br />
7th March.</b><br />
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Just over a year ago, after a long and careful discussion, your committee refused permission for a large supermarket to be built on the cattle market site in Tenbury. You have now been asked to change that decision: please, please don’t. There have been no real changes to the application and the decision should be the same – a refusal.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">To do otherwise, would be inconsistent and unjustified. We are very lucky to have a diverse and vital high street in Tenbury; but make no mistake, it is very fragile and would not survive the effects of a large supermarket being built in the town.</span></span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• The current bridge closure, a minor event in comparison, has cost traders up to 50%</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> of their turnover during the closure</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>Your own local plan</b> says that we need only 18 sq M of additional food retail space – the</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> application is for nearly 80 times that amount – far more than all of the current food</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> retail space in Tenbury</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>The Council for the Protection of Rural England</b> has concluded that <i>“it will have a</i></span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> strong adverse impact on the traders in the town and duplicate services offered”</span></i>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">In these difficult times jobs are precious and any jobs lost are difficult, if not impossible, to</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> replace.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
• <b>The British Retail Planning Forum</b>, which is financed by the supermarkets themselves,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> has found that every time a large supermarket opens, on average, <b>276</b> jobs are lost</span>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• These figures suggest that if the development goes ahead <b>we will lose about 100 jobs in</b></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b> Tenbury</b> – that is a net loss of about 100 jobs</span>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The development will have a catastrophic effect on the conservation area and the historical</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> setting.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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• <b>The council’s own Conservation Officer </b>describes it as a <i>“large, single span, semi-</i></span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> industrial building” that will “certainly impact upon the Conservation Area”</span></i>.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>English Heritage</b> recommend that permission be refused</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>The Council for British Archaeology</b> is against the development</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>The Civic Society </b>has said, a <i>“supermarket of this size ……. cannot be made to fit</i></span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> visually in a historic setting, particularly as this proposal requires the demolition of an</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> important historic building”</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• <b>The Victorian Society</b> is against the demolition of the Old Infirmary and so against the</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> development</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
• <b>Your own planning officers </b>say that it would be <i>“regrettable”</i> to demolish the RBB</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> building for this development – avoid those regrets and refuse permission, we will</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> never be able to get it back</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">There are many other concerns...</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• There are many, very real concerns about safety on the roads and pavements around</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> the development – there has been an accident on the site in the last few weeks</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> involving a car and a supermarket lorry</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• A recent traffic survey has shown that more than 1,600 traffic movements already</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> take place between 5pm and 7pm at this end of Teme Street</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• The development does not provide anything like enough parking – the proposal is</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> well below the national minimum standards</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
• There is not even room for a trolley to be placed behind a shopper's car whilst the</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> shopping is being loaded into the car’s boot without impeding the traffic on the</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> proposed access road</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">• There is no answer to how the bridge, a scheduled ancient monument, will cope with</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> the extra traffic (estimated at up to 2,000 crossings per day by cars and many more</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> by large delivery lorries) – when it fails to cope, as it frequently must, Tenbury will be</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> regularly gridlocked</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd6XlojhtHMRLEaAswC8ppQ9p9lU3LDCmgQ-5fZJlzTl1g51cYI-etZ7EuCCHl1VbmzCZoW32ubDw_6gBXt_Mcx4fLCSSO1uyC1gGcFONcTnVlO90Ct8dVskBBX_4X7GFDgqZvg747G8/s1600/No-blog-pic.png" /></a>• <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Have no doubt about the strength of feeling in and around Tenbury. There have been many</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> hundreds of written objections and only a handful of letters in support of this unnecessary and damaging development.</span></blockquote><div style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And finally...</span></b></span></i></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i>Tesco has no interest in or understanding of Tenbury as a place in its own right, and, it would seem, has little respect for our local authorities.<br />
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Please refuse permission for this wholly unnecessary development that would do so much damage, in so many ways, to Tenbury. Make no mistake, the damage would be permanent.</i> <br />
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</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>The future vitality of the town's highstreet is in your hands. It is your decision.</b></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b></b></span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-57241476683645279632012-02-14T22:09:00.008+00:002012-02-14T23:00:34.489+00:00Llangollen Threatened by Tesco too..<object height="320" width="480"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/w8QfwaXUwiI&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/w8QfwaXUwiI&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="480" height="320"></embed></object><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Llangollen in Wales is also being threatened by Tesco's never-ending desire to grow their corporate mega-business and make more and more money from the demise of our small town highstreets and independent shops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Tesco are trying everything they can in every place they can.. Tenbury is just another notch on the bedpost as far as Tesco are concerned. If it doesn't happen in Tenbury then they'll try anywhere else they can and use anything within their power to try to make it happen using such standard excuses as "but it's what the people want" [when in Tenbury and surrounds many hundreds of people have said <b>NO</b> time after time to the plan via planning objections to MHDC].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Interestingly the video above starts with a hint at the very real discussions ongoing in the UK parliament about Tesco's ruthless expansion tactics. It's clearly something that's now on government agendas as well as how to keep our small town highstreets vibrant. </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-25621199352890121282012-01-21T19:48:00.006+00:002012-01-21T20:06:57.735+00:00Tenbury Futures is Consulted by the Local Media<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">We ran a <a href="http://tenbury-futures.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html">community questionnaire</a> in March 2011 in which over 300 local and regional people fed back their preferences and ideas for the town's cattle market site. As part of our questions people could indicate their preferences for its redevelopment - including saying whether they'd prefer a large supermarket there. Over 200 of those who replied stated very clearly that they wished the site to benefit the town with both sensitive and sustainable development that broadly benefitted the community. There was a very clear rejection however of the idea of of using the whole site for one large supermarket</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the back of this we researched and developed an outline set of plans that would best encompass these findings - which resulted in our <a href="http://www.thebumblebee.co.uk/futures/Futures-Plan-B.pdf"><b>PLAN B</b></a> document that we published/distributed in July 2011. This document provides proactive suggestions in relation to the town that could enhance community facilities, tourism draw, local jobs, parking and highstreet vitality to name but some areas. Shortly after publishing, PLAN B received positive initial support from regional and national funding organisations - notably the Big Lottery Fund which then featured in their 'The Local' - a magazine about proactive communities.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a tough one, of that there's no doubt. If Tesco's latest application is turned down again then we'd like to start to talk to a range of parties who could come together to look at alternate development of the site. There has been interest in the site from other developers during the time Tesco's latest application has been considered by Malvern Hills. As such, we'd hope that we could help facilitate a blended re-development of the site that met with support from both the owner, funding organisations and potentially other developers who might consider a much more blended use of the site.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are primarily looking to work with the current owners and interested parties. We would think it unlikely that we would be able to take on and fund the whole project on our own account.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4. What do you fear will happen to Tenbury if the Tesco plan goes ahead?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our fears are multiple really.. In particular we fear it would heighten highstreet slowdown in an already challenging financial climate. and reduce employment, as large supermarkets have a far lower employment density than small shops.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Most of us have seen the way that large supermarkets have affected other market towns such as Llandrindod Wells in which the shopkeepers are wondering why none of their number objected to Tesco's plans there that have contributed to their highstreet slow-down. The Rhyl Journal article "Traders hold crisis talks as Tesco hit sales" discusses this and one trader told our group: </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"In the first 3 months they [Tesco] have devastated the local high street to the tune of a 35% to 64% downturn... They are actively targeting the local Boots store [35% to 40% down] and the local Co-Op [formerly Somerfield 65% down]. Most other retail businesses are experiencing between 15% and 30% decline... some 4 months after Tesco opening. The biggest problem has been the reduction in footfall, people are using Tesco as a one-stop shop and not walking or even driving into the old town centre..."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Further details can be found on this story in the Rhyll Journal article of 15th Oct 2010 “</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/94468/traders-hold-crisis-talks-as-tesco-hits-sales.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext;">Traders Hold Crisis Talks as Tesco Hits Sales</span></a><i>”.</i> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition, Tesco themselves say that over 60% of their shoppers will not go off into adjacent highstreets. Instead, it's more common to do a 'one stop shop' and get all shopping in one go. Once this shopping is in the car you're unlikely to leave it and go off down the high street. To further illustrate this you only need to to some basic research into adjacent highstreets and you'll find numerous references to businesses who simply can't compete with Tesco's corporate buying-power. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;">“<i>We have reduced the price of the shop. We are definitely selling up... It’s [the local Tesco] devastated us as a business... We go and sit in the Tesco car park and watch all the customers who used to come in to us go in and out of there all the time.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's unlikely that such a large Tesco would affect the long-term unemployment numbers in the town either, a report in the Cambrian News in 2010 [1] stated that after looking into 6x towns that had new Tesco stores that: </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;">“<i>The opening of supermarkets did not boost the labour market of any of the six towns sampled in terms of claimant count unemployment - despite hundreds of jobs being claimed to be created</i>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The area around the old Teme Bridge already suffers from congestion at specific times of the day. Additionally, most locals have witnessed large HGV's trying to pick their way across its unique bend while traffic backs-up. Despite recent ongoing works to strengthen the bridge it's simply not an effective traffic solution that will serve the Town well in any situation where the traffic is likely to increase. Instead, we're supporting the idea of a second [relief] bridge nearby downstream which could utilise the Cattle Market and bring people into the town there. For retailers and businesses on that site it could prove a real benefit while [via a managed one way system] relieving and helping future-proof traffic-flow to the town. Such a scheme could be looked into with contributions from the developer[s] via 's106 monies' as well as a pooling of both Shropshire and Worcestershire County Council's monies in this area. Without such a scheme, any development on the cattle market site -large or small- and subsequent potential traffic increases will probably exacerbate existing congestion causing more frustration and maybe even injury as desperate hauliers mount pavements to try to get through the bottleneck of the old Teme bridge.</span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>5. What do you say to those people living in Tenbury who have voiced their desire for a supermarket so they don’t have to drive to Leominster or Ludlow?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Locals seem to shop using multiple methods now with many combining a supermarket shop nearby with additional goods and foods from the town's highstreet. Additionally, some drive the 15 mins to Tesco or Aldi etc in Ludlow, some choose to drive over to Morrisons, Aldi etc in Leominster, some use Lidl at Stourport, others make use of the cheap online deliveries from Tesco etc. In addition, it's worth noting that the town already has three supermarkets already with Bowketts/Nisa, Spar and a Co-op within walkable distance of many in the town and Burford. So in essence we're well served anyway and many use existing supermarket deliveries. Add to this that many work in outlying towns to Tenbury and who shop while there anyway and it’s not all that make special journeys to shop either.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>6. What do you say to those who feel they can’t afford to shop entirely from independent retailers – how can Tenbury deliver an affordable weekly shop for them?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We would highlight again that there are shops locally who cater for a range of budgets, in addition, today's shoppers can [and very often do] make use of online shopping options and deliveries that are available to the town and surrounding area.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7. Are you in contact with anti-Tesco campaigns in other parts of the county and do you see yourselves as part of a nationwide movement?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, we're in contact with a number of other regional groups who oppose similar supermarket large developments. We're not sure whether you could say there's a 'national' movement as such but the campaigning website 'Tescopoly.com' estimates that there are over 400 similar anti supermarket campaigns now active in the UK [interestingly, mainly relating to Tesco]. It's clear that many thousands of people nationwide are more and more concerned at the power large supermarket chains wield and the negative effects their unchecked growth has on our highstreets.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>8. Is there any way you would be prepared to work with Tesco or another major developer on an outlet which you would find more acceptable?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We've already been approached by other developers in relation to the cattle market site. Our perspective has been the same with each in that we'd meet with and listen to their plans and then we'd put them to a vote of the Tenbury Futures mailing list members. If the majority were in support of the ideas then we'd ask for further discussions to see if we could lend our support. The present [Tesco] application for the site just aims to build a very large supermarket. Broadly if there are other developers whose plans tally more with the findings of our community questionnaire [i.e. blended developments including smaller retail, re-use of key historic buildings etc] then we would be keen to look to see if we could lend our support.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9. Why can’t Tesco work for Tenbury in the way it has for Ludlow?</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has it worked in Ludlow and if so then by what measure? The reason it is now where it is on Corve St is that there was a campaign by locals there too against it which lasted for many years. They too feared negative impacts on their highstreet shops and today's location was very much regarded as the lesser of a couple of evils.. It's a false argument though - the idea of ‘in town’ or ‘out of town’ - to us they're both bad for the highstreet. It's a little like asking "what would you prefer to be eaten by - a lion or a crocodile?". There are some who might suggest that Ludlow's Tesco has helped the town thrive but in reality the two towns are very, very different with Ludlow having a vastly different demographic population to Tenbury [Ludlow’s main housing estate alone has more people than the whole population of Tenbury]. Additionally Ludlow thrives due to clever marketing as a rural ‘foodie’ capital which brings in visitors, tourism and associated monies. Ludlow also has its cattle market which additionally brings in people, money and passing trade.. In short they're very different entities. To compound that there is evidence that trade is polarising towards the Tesco end of Ludlow now that there is a clutch of supermarkets there. The Shropshire Star ran an article:“<a href="http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/13/town-suffering-as-trade-evaporates/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Town Suffering as Trade Evaporates</span></a><i>”, </i>in which: </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We do have an independent supermarket already in the town but have no overt preferences as a group. One of our aims is to promote [and if possible to help facilitate] the blended use of the town's cattle market site. We accept that additional retail will need to play a part in this process but we're asking that it should be appropriate, sensitive and sustainable. This combination has been achieved in other towns so why not Tenbury? We believe this message is clearly re-enforced <i>for the third time</i> by the 600+ individual planning objections from local and regional residents to the latest Tesco scheme filed with Malvern Hills' planners.</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tenbury Futures, Jan, 2012</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-23354182245424453182011-12-19T17:12:00.009+00:002011-12-20T00:23:03.352+00:00Merry Christmas from the Tenbury Futures Team...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjPt_iToftkJYE8LiW6M1cL5G5pjIXdq-g1uLKafzmf1Tdbq3-amNqJsN-SzN7QAE1v9zTVtjCZpw8WRd1AzYNAaKJIJf4VfzpcEbhG0WTL8i_kL9hK3vKxe7KBYUPdJ-flb_BaaeTpg/s1600/tf-crimbo-animation.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjPt_iToftkJYE8LiW6M1cL5G5pjIXdq-g1uLKafzmf1Tdbq3-amNqJsN-SzN7QAE1v9zTVtjCZpw8WRd1AzYNAaKJIJf4VfzpcEbhG0WTL8i_kL9hK3vKxe7KBYUPdJ-flb_BaaeTpg/s320/tf-crimbo-animation.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just a quick mail to wish <i>everyone</i> a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Tenbury Futures team. We especially want to thank the many 100's of local and regional individuals who have joined us in objecting to Tesco's plans on the town's Cattle Market site.</span><br />
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Here's hoping too that 2012 will bring a set of solutions to the town's Cattle Market site that best serve a whole range of our local and regional communities. You can be assured that we'll still campaign for a blended development solution to the Cattle Market site as the majority vote [over 200 of the 300 returns] in our <span style="color: red;">'</span><a href="http://tenbury-futures.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html" style="color: red;"><b>community questionnaire</b></a><span style="color: red;">'</span> concluded in early 2011. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">A quick reminder of some of our key findings:</span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The majority view from the questionnaire was<br />
to re-use the Old Infirmary/RBB Building.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The majority vote was that survey participants didn't want <br />
a solely large supermarket solution to the site.</td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Other local issues we're interested in...</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">We'll also still encourage debate around this and other related subjects such as the Teme Bridge, traffic and parking as the new year progresses.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Even now there's a new idea that we support to add a single track bridge across the Teme discussed in the Christmas edition of the <b><a href="http://www.temevalleytimes.co.uk/" style="color: red;">Teme Valley Times</a></b>. In this new idea the old Teme Bridge is kept in use but only for one-way traffic exiting the town while a new single-track bridge near the Burford fire station acts as the main way 'in' to the town. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The proposed new single lane bridge featured in the latest Teme Valley Times.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Once again, thanks to those many 100's of people for their support in our campaigns - it's all very much appreciated by us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - we hope that 2012 will be a vibrant, sustainable and prosperous year for the town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b style="color: #274e13;">The Tenbury Futures team</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>P.S. </b>You can comment on this post by clicking the 'comments' link below or why not mail us on our e-mail: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b><a href="mailto:tenburyfutures@gmail.com" style="color: red;">tenburyfutures@gmail.com</a></b> </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-79036990797061924882011-12-11T16:59:00.012+00:002011-12-11T18:35:00.857+00:00Fairplay? Highstreet Shopkeepers on Tesco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0FFzcbykWTY_icPCxR41chK7fG1Jgk_okK280oAywK8C6_v6lhOY8v3f_nAr3Mf24wxz9ogVjISTXBCePMuRSnIS0EdR9R_NLlnot2L3Ino7K2PdWCB-s_fMHXl8YdJqrmmx3ObG840/s1600/fairplay-blog.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0FFzcbykWTY_icPCxR41chK7fG1Jgk_okK280oAywK8C6_v6lhOY8v3f_nAr3Mf24wxz9ogVjISTXBCePMuRSnIS0EdR9R_NLlnot2L3Ino7K2PdWCB-s_fMHXl8YdJqrmmx3ObG840/s400/fairplay-blog.gif" width="391" /></a></div><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">These are all genuine accounts from recent UK newspaper reports. Each features a quote from a small highstreet shopkeeper who either sees the <i>writing on the wall</i> or who are facing closure as a result of a Tesco store near them taking their customers or through Tesco undercutting them.</span></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Shopkeeper 01</span></b></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;"><i>“We had lots of regular customers but we haven’t seen many of them for months - since the new [Tesco] store opened... We’re going to see if it picks up, but we are really worried we may have to close.”</i></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Priti Patel, owner of Churwell Food Market for 16 years in Churwell, West Yorks. </span>From “Churwell shopkeeper’s fears for future after Tesco opening”, Morley Observer & Advertiser, 13th Oct, 2011</span></span> <a href="http://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/churwell_shopkeeper_s_fears_for_future_after_tesco_opening_1_3865577"><b>Read more...</b></a></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Shopkeeper 02</span></b></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i style="color: red;">"Who’ll come and buy a pound of sausages from me when they’ve been to Tesco? It’ll kill us."</i></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Melanie Fox, daughter of Derek the butcher whose family has traded for 200 years in Malton, Yorks [now threatened by a Tesco Superstore].</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From Daily Mail article: ‘Don't let Tesco wreck my town says Selina Scott..’ 25th Nov, 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066319/Tesco--dont-wreck-town-Selina-Scott-fight-stop-beloved-Yorkshire-market-town-destroyed.html"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Read More...</span></b></a></span></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Shopkeeper 03</span></b></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i style="color: red;">“We have reduced the price of the shop. We are definitely selling up... It’s [the local Tesco] devastated us as a business... We go and sit in the Tesco car park and watch all the customers who used to come in to us go in and out of there all the time.”</i></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Julia Moore owner for 20 years of Moore’s Grocers in Madeley, Telford.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">From “Every little helps, "Telford shopkeeper to throw in the towel", Shropshire. Star, 21st Mar 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/03/21/every-little-helps-telford-shopkeeper-to-throw-in-the-towel/"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Read More...</b></span></a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">There has been suggestion that a Tesco supermarket in Tenbury would <i>"benefit Tenbury's shops"</i>... Is this the sort of <i>"benefit"</i> the town's food shops need?</span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-40082902245588632762011-12-04T21:58:00.003+00:002011-12-04T22:03:40.331+00:00"Don't Let Tesco Wreck My Town.." Selina Scott, Malton, Yorkshire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTmv5bhbdBmSYZcqjse74XmCVDdj-exQU_bPdObDLysDKVpWb80rouuQW2ULdR62oiixyfO-K4xhF3CDfr55pDwZN9cXt2IVp1RlMsW3Es6p7l0zwHqlj1tUhsmQWyjDYDmld8pSoRbI/s1600/selina-no.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTmv5bhbdBmSYZcqjse74XmCVDdj-exQU_bPdObDLysDKVpWb80rouuQW2ULdR62oiixyfO-K4xhF3CDfr55pDwZN9cXt2IVp1RlMsW3Es6p7l0zwHqlj1tUhsmQWyjDYDmld8pSoRbI/s400/selina-no.gif" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>From the Daily Mail, 25th November, 2011</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">'Plans have been submitted to Ryedale District Council for a supersized supermarket covering the area of a football pitch to be built in the heart of Malton, on the site of the town’s car park.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Residents are unequivocal in their condemnation, certain it will destroy the fragile balance of local shops and community spirit that has been the hallmark of this special little town since the middle ages. Like many other market towns in Britain, locals are banding together to try to stop the developer, Leeds-based firm GMI Holbeck Land, obtaining planning permission.'</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">And</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">'It is not as though Malton, with a population of just 4,000, doesn’t have a supermarket. It has three. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But if a 50,000 sq ft store gets the go-ahead then the hundred or so small shopkeepers who are already struggling will be driven out.'</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">"Who’ll come and buy a pound of sausages from me when they’ve been to Tesco? It’ll kill us."</span></span></b></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Melanie Fox, the daughter of Derek the butcher — whose family has traded here [Malton] for 200 years.</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Malton is the latest town to attempt to resist the power and money of the supermarket chains which steamroller over local sensibilities. From the Herefordshire town of Ledbury to the Welsh market town of Machynlleth and Scotland’s Castle Douglas, local people have manned the barricades.'</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066319/Tesco--dont-wreck-town-Selina-Scott-fight-stop-beloved-Yorkshire-market-town-destroyed.html" style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Read more in the original article... </span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-30829259337216470662011-11-18T15:34:00.011+00:002011-11-20T19:07:59.115+00:00Please Object to Tesco Demolishing Our Historic Infirmary Building<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLkyQYpdFXlDD9wIrJA-z_x4do7W7SW_bxygpodVnFBbKWHK2wBrFKv1F9mhvtqm4GtBxwm_EC1ndzxh4alNbzhp8IgbROlkfrUOQXNz5ohrMHN2a4g3NlhxM5GjpiNmAAJ-1ZZN0GxA/s1600/rbb-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLkyQYpdFXlDD9wIrJA-z_x4do7W7SW_bxygpodVnFBbKWHK2wBrFKv1F9mhvtqm4GtBxwm_EC1ndzxh4alNbzhp8IgbROlkfrUOQXNz5ohrMHN2a4g3NlhxM5GjpiNmAAJ-1ZZN0GxA/s400/rbb-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tesco want to demolish the historic Old Infirmary building on the Cattle Market site [within the town's conservation area] to build a giant superstore. They then wish to add insult to injury and mark it's footprint as an outline in their <i>potential</i> car park and put up a large glossy graphical celebration of it and it's history alongside the town's workhouse on their <i>potential</i> big shop window.</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Similar applications for demolition of the Old Infirmary [latterly Russell Baldwin & Bright building] were refused by Malvern Hills District Council earlier this year, and in 2010. The reasons given by the Council for the refusal were published as follows:<i><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>a.</b> “Demolition of the building would be harmful to the character and appearance of the Tenbury Wells Conservation Area.” and</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>b.</b> “The building is considered to be too important because it frames views into the former Cattle Market site from both Teme Street and the bridge over the river.”</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>c. </b>“There is no satisfactory redevelopment scheme for the site that could mitigate against the loss of this important building, contrary to Policies CTC19 and CTC20 of the Worcestershire County Structure Plan, Policy QL8 of the Malvern Hills District Local Plan and guidance contained within PPS5 ‘Planning for the Historic Environment’.”</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Councillor David Hughes, Portfolio Holder of Planning at the Council was quoted at the time as saying:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">“The Russell Baldwin & Bright building is an important building within the Tenbury Wells Conservation Area and its demolition would be harmful to the special character of the area.” </span></i></b></blockquote></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">Don't let Tesco do this</b> <span style="color: red;">- please join the growing list of planning objections and stop the needless destruction of one of the town's heritage buildings.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What do I do next if I want to object?</b><br />
It's quick and easy.. </span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: small;">• Please download one of the objection letters below, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">• Print then print the letter out</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">• Then please sign and address it and then either send off to the Malvern Hills Council address marked on them <b><i>or</i></b> just drop them into Tenbury's Spar, Bowketts Supermarket or The Little Sweet Shop. <b></b></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We'll do the rest!</b></span></i></blockquote></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div></div>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-67815683179423815022011-11-10T17:17:00.010+00:002011-11-10T20:29:02.469+00:00Supermarkets - Fair to Our Farmers?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Church of England's Ethical Advisory Group's 2007 report "<i>Fairtrade begins at Home: Supermarkets and The Effect on British Farming Livelyhoods</i>" makes for interesting reading..</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">"<i>This report makes it <b>quite clear that the business practices of the major food retailers have placed considerable stress on the farming community through the use of methods which we believe to be unfair and of which consumers seem to be unaware</b>. Farmers seem to be unwilling to complain or to expose these practices for fear that their produce may be boycotted by the major retailers.</i>"</span> </div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"The low inflation which the British population has enjoyed for a number of years appears to have been generated, at least in part, at the expense of the livelihood and well-being of the farming community. We are moving towards a situation where we will be unable to be self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs, such as milk, and have to rely on imports which are produced on a cost basis which is not viable in the country.</span></i><br />
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The landscape and life of Britain are intimately related to the use which we make of the land. Although this has constantly changed over the centuries, we may soon find ourselves living in an age when herds and flocks are no longer seen, and in which virtually the whole population is totally disconnected from any contact with the production of the food which it eats. The link with the land, which is a powerful theme in theology, scripture and folk-lore, may well be lost and with it an essential part of our national heritage and identity."</span></i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Foreword by The Bishop of Exeter, The Rt. Reverend Michael Langrish</span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Click on the report's cover to download the full .pdf file - freely available online]</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Selected additional quotes</span></b></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"... <b>the review identifies a number of invisible and pernicious practices that the consumer is largely unaware of</b>, and which have been accepted by farmers as a fait accompli as part of the price of doing business."</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"... these practices include labelling that obscures the country of origin of the primary ingredients of some products labelled as British but often only processed or packaged here; flexible contract terms that seldom work to the advantage of the farmer; flexible payment terms that, subject to arbitrary change, have often put farmers to increased cost and financial loss; facilitation payments; deductions and a range of financial inducements paid to the retailer or processor at the farmer’s expense. There is little evidence that retailers share the benefits of promotions with farmers, and much evidence that farmers, in the main, bear the costs."</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"... we conclude that farmers do not seek special treatment, but a genuinely free market that is not skewed towards a few retailers with enormous buying power. There is visible inequality and dysfunction within the supply chain, which in our view requires attention."</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"... <b>Farmers are asking for no more than a fair price for a fair product</b> which requires a connection to be made by the British consumer that fair trade begins at home with British produce, reared and farmed by British producers."</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Additional quotes from Executive Summary pages 4 & 5.</span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_971394312"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=supermarkets%20and%20the%20effect%20on%20british%20farming%20livelyhoods&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.churchofengland.org%2Fmedia%2F36540%2Ffairtrade.pdf&ei=XQO8Tu7XBdHd8QO264iwBw&usg=AFQjCNEW4MUr5QFE-DloDSXLvt9A0kiQEQ&sig2=u0-yptmB2Vq1pwYlOpQA1w&cad=rja">Read more and download the full .pdf document</a>.</b></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-57189414006625609592011-10-20T20:34:00.010+01:002011-10-22T21:36:19.883+01:00Tenbury Wells in The Big Lottery Fund's 'Village SOS' Magazine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A page from the magazine - Tenbury is first in a list <br />
of the Big Lottery Fund's enterprising communities.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The campaign by Tenbury Futures and 100's of local community members to sustainably develop the town's cattle market site has been picked up by the Big Lottery Fund's 'Village SOS' magazine.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The magazine is the latest output from the Village SOS stable and follows on from the BBC TV programme of the same name hosted by Sarah Beeney. The magazine 'celebrates enterprising communities' and 'the people making a real difference to the places where they live'. Additionally, the magazine is part of a wider campaign by the Big Lottery Fund's Village SOS organisation and is joined by a national roadshow and £5 million of competition funding to help community-led enterprises get off the ground, revive their areas, create new jobs and improve the quality of life of local people.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Big Lottery Fund's campaign group were particularly interested in Tenbury Futures' proactive '<a href="http://www.thebumblebee.co.uk/futures/Futures-Plan-B.pdf"><b>PLAN B</b></a>' document - which promotes sensible and sustainable development of the town's cattle market site (which we discussed on this blog in an earlier post). </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMv7gGckDtrXdDpleXu-uCKmXz9wcKnbBC-4GkYwf1ZFF1P1vIaH7eUlBSjlA83c6i14G17s7Dk1doUTvY82lnVetdo2509sBMhOv7mKjJJGTxTB2ZFtmFYUlDUy-jtgPacywOw5_DFn8/s1600/web02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMv7gGckDtrXdDpleXu-uCKmXz9wcKnbBC-4GkYwf1ZFF1P1vIaH7eUlBSjlA83c6i14G17s7Dk1doUTvY82lnVetdo2509sBMhOv7mKjJJGTxTB2ZFtmFYUlDUy-jtgPacywOw5_DFn8/s200/web02.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">The roadshow comes to Worcester on Dec 2nd and will offer supporting discussions and talks as well as advice on developing and evolving community projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.villagesos.org.uk/village/tenbury-wells"><b>Read more</b></a>... </span></div>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-51987484946017448212011-10-13T08:54:00.006+01:002011-10-22T22:34:34.813+01:00Tenbury Council Mystery U-Turn on Tesco Plans.<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCMqnJbClwWKKg8CULHDLEHHHu5I7p2BhhENGkMPx4GxDyUuaFqoGkNustPbVd1dCW5w20MNb5t2HFkb5HQifYF55SsjpeEMkXD2o4iLy328MdWe0yHFqNWl6zLdWrtREyYsBhlFHWUA/s1600/U-turn.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCMqnJbClwWKKg8CULHDLEHHHu5I7p2BhhENGkMPx4GxDyUuaFqoGkNustPbVd1dCW5w20MNb5t2HFkb5HQifYF55SsjpeEMkXD2o4iLy328MdWe0yHFqNWl6zLdWrtREyYsBhlFHWUA/s320/U-turn.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The confusion about Tenbury Town Council's decision-making regards Tesco became more compounded as of monday night's extraordinary meeting. As we recall, they rejected the Tesco plan recently, they then did a re-run and supported it - the validity of both meetings and results was clearly called into question after that so a third meeting was called. What was different about this third meet though was that Tesco PR rep Sophie and their planning representative from Cardiff had been drafted-in to help try to sweet-talk wavering Clrs regarding the way they'd vote.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who invited Tesco's PR spin team?</b><br />
What wasn't clear (and we suspect that there are those that would just say that this is '<i>sour grapes</i>' on our part) was how Tesco reps came to be in the Town Council meeting in the first place. One assumes that they were '<i>invited</i>' and if so then by whom? It could of course be one of the Councillors who did this but we stand to be corrected if anyone knows more specifics.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>You're either an audience member or you're not surely?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There were 3x 5 min talking slots from 'the audience' allowed as a standard. These individuals could address the Clrs and Lady Mayor to put across their position on the Tesco plan. Two locals spoke about their grave concerns related to the plan. Subjects such as severe traffic congestion, undercutting of town high street shops and Tesco's unique kind of 'benefit' [read loss of jobs and highstreet trade] to other towns were covered. Then came the third audience member to talk - but this wasn't another local airing concerns or support - instead they were two fully paid-up Tesco employees. While the points they tried to raise were garbled at best they were able to act as both 'audience' as well as being the applicant and proposer of the planning application.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The audience must remain quiet.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">After these 15 minutes of 'audience' pointers and concerns were read out we [inc the Tesco representatives] were told in no uncertain terms that we should 'remain quiet'. From here on there would be a debate between councilors, we were also told that we would be ejected from the chamber should we talk or interrupt the debate. As such the audience respected this ask and kept quiet while the debate was underway. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Were facts used to support debate or just supposition?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There then followed the expected debate between Clrs. For a while there seemed to be uncertainty as pro Tesco Clrs argued with Clrs who were airing various concerns about the plan still. To confuse the matter further there were various points raised by pro Tesco Clrs that were presented as 'fact' to the chamber when they were plainly not presented accurately. One example being that Ludlow was put across as being the 'same or similar' to Tenbury. In reality, Ludlow is very different from Tenbury though. Take for example the fact that Tenbury's population is about 3,500, that's less people that Ludlow's Council Estate of about 4000 people alone. Ludlow has a population of around 10,000 in total - that's nearly 3 times that of Tenbury. Ludlow has cleverly marketed itself in tune with the growing national interest in slow and locally produced foods - Tenbury hasn't that we're aware of. Ludlow has a the remains of a castle that administered the whole of Wales for 200 years - Tenbury hasn't. Ludlow has a vibrant cattle market which for many years has brought money and individuals into the town - Tenbury no longer has an cattle market in town. Ludlow's tourism industry has been cultured over many years and runs on a very different scale and with a larger array of assets to that of Tenbury's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In short, you can't compare like for like - the two towns are substantially different. Although Ludlow has had recent news reports about the polarisation of trade to the superstore end of town it is never the less more resilient because of this broader mix of references at it's disposal. Those who are pro Tesco of course claim this resilience is down to a Tesco store in town but the many additional benefits the town has would seem to suggest otherwise.<br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Commendations to Clrs who aired their concerns.</b><br />
Commendations do have to be given though to those local Councillors who raised concerns about the plan - both in terms of potential traffic congestion, ill thought-through superstore parking arrangements and the fact that the Clrs possibly weren't paying full attention to the many concerns raised by locals that had been passed to them to consider.<br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All pigs are equal but some are more equal than others.</b><br />
What many in the audience couldn't square though was that during this debate some members of the audience <b>were</b> allowed their say and a right to reply when others who were on the public speaker list weren't. Pro Tesco Clrs asked if they could talk to the applicant as audience members and ask them further questions. The same facility to further detail and clarifiy wasn't extended to the rest of the audience or speakers though - many of whom who would have been able to clarify some of the claims put across as 'fact' in support of the Tesco application. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>So was the meeting conducted fairly?</b><br />
In the event, Tesco representatives then had the chance to both clarify and even expand upon points raised by mainly pro Tesco Clrs. No one else had the same facility offered. Was it conducted fairly? You'll have to draw your own conclusions.</span></div>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-65700868933108947812011-09-29T22:07:00.000+01:002011-09-30T15:13:34.492+01:00Tenbury Town Council Rejects Tesco Plans [Again]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaOQQQgD1PsWm7hgkNt5YiRkZUpQtKsnnGeS2bEZcq0Kp7EtlEH2m4M-j3SRGtftag8S_09tCxKO4Z9GHxQ8t_65ggxt0tjmzAp6-qlR2s48MR92V43xe5kvGOp43kY4iLVSgCTCrJk8/s1600/TTC-NO-VOTE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaOQQQgD1PsWm7hgkNt5YiRkZUpQtKsnnGeS2bEZcq0Kp7EtlEH2m4M-j3SRGtftag8S_09tCxKO4Z9GHxQ8t_65ggxt0tjmzAp6-qlR2s48MR92V43xe5kvGOp43kY4iLVSgCTCrJk8/s400/TTC-NO-VOTE.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A delighted public gallery rang with applause on monday night after Tenbury Town Council voted to reject Tesco's superstore plans for the town's cattle market site [again]. In addition, the Town Council revealed the results of a recent 'local businesses' survey related to the Tesco plans.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tesco Rejection.</b><br />
The Council voted to reject Tesco's latest plans after a vote of Councilors ended at 5-4 against the plans. There were mixed opinions voiced from the Councilors on the Tesco issue during debate with some citing the local business survey which appeared to show a majority support for a Tesco. One Councillor, an architect by trade, argued that the consequences of additional traffic from a store of the proposed size would cause substantial traffic congestion around the entrance to the site and the site itself - which would have clearances of only 50cm when Tesco delivery HGVs drove through the store's car park. Another Councilor countered that deliveries would only happen between key time windows. Sadly though, we know from the experiences of many staff at Tesco Ludlow that these delivery windows are routinely flouted by both Tesco and their 3rd party HGV deliveries. Also mentioned was that the bridge would now remain in it's present format so existing Teme bridge queues would be exacerbated substantially too by potential store traffic and deliveries.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Feedback from the local community on the decision.</b><br />
The decision by Tenbury Town Council was commended by many locals in later correspondence with our group. Examples of these include:</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div><span style="font-size: small;">"<i><b>Fantastic news – well done!</b></i>" <span style="font-size: x-small;">from Mrs H, Nash, Tenbury Wells.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">"<i><b>Was a pleasure to be there yesterday evening and see democracy in action. I had little experience of how these things work. Yes for sure the size is way over what is needed in tenbury and my main argument has always been why can't we get a sensible scaled down tender from a different superstore (eg, Sainsburys or Waitrose)..?</b></i>" <span style="font-size: x-small;">Brigid O'Hea-Eakins.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">"<i><b>Just wanted you to know how thrilled and delighted I am after reading your email. I know just how strongly you all feel about the 'Tesco issue' as my sister and nephew... live and work in Tenbury and it means so much to them to keep Tenbury unspoilt and the delightful place that it is.</b></i>" <span style="font-size: x-small;">Gail Cooke.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">"<i><b>This is a good result. I was interested at the meeting in the Mary Portas comment - when people were asked to describe their ideal small town they basically described Tenbury! Sometimes people don't recognise what they've got until they lose it - at which point it is too late and there is no going back.</b></i>" <span style="font-size: x-small;">Mrs Averil Opperman</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">"<i><b>Tenbury Town Council have clearly realised the scale of the threat from Tesco to the town's independent shops. I'm pleased that they've made an informed and considered decision on this issue..</b></i>". <span style="font-size: x-small;">Mrs S, mother with young family, Tenbury Wells.</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Local Businesses Survey.</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Regarding the local business vote, there has been much subsequent discussion about whether it accurately reflects the views of general businesses or local shopkeepers. If you were to think about how many shopkeepers there are - numbering in the region of 35, and focussed a poll just on them we believe that the results would have been very different and either much nearer a 50/50 vote or possibly majority against the Tesco plans. Consider too that the shopkeepers in the main feel directly threatened by Tesco and their plans as opposed to many of the other businesses such as the vets, the dentist and the pubs who won't feel the same threat to their livelyhoods from the plans. This was very much a perspective reflected by Clr Eric Hudson who claimed that the poll didn't really reflect the views of the local shops.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Kibbler's Cobblers.</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Having attended the TTC meet on monday 26th Sept ourselves, we have to take issue with Adrian Kibbler's 29th September Tenbury Wells Advertiser account of the proceedings in which he claims that the Lady Mayor '<i>told the audience ...to be quiet</i>'. We don't recall this at all, the mayor may have reminded all at the start that the audience couldn't speak as this was an extraordinary meeting but we recall no such overt reprimands once the meeting was underway.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Intimidation?</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Tenbury Advertiser's thu Sept 29th article seems to centre on alleged '<i>intimidation</i>' towards Councilors. If you read it through though - there is no actual evidence or details of '<i>intimidation</i>' discussed, it's purely only suggested or implied. In reality no one in that audience either: ran up to a Councilor during session and physically or verbally heckled them, stood over them while they voted in a secret ballot or cornered them outside the meet before the vote [or anything of that nature].. Indeed if anyone had acted in such a manner they would have been ejected from the chamber - but no-one was.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Instead of the so-called <i>'intimidation</i>' splashed across the Advertiser's front page, the audience merely clapped after Clrs pointed-out concerns about the plan themselves followed by clapping <i>and</i> cheers towards the meet's end when it became clear the the secret ballot was against Tesco's plans. Hardly the '<i>intimidation</i>' as painted by the Advertiser.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It strikes us that these claims are just tabloid <i>creative writing</i> though to try and beef-up a thinly-veiled pro Tesco article masquerading as (supposedly) impartial journalism.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>And finally.</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We'll end on the view of another Councilor who passionately aired his worries towards the end of the meet and said:</div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>...if they [Tesco] come here then it'll cripple this town</i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;">". </span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-79711723590794184722011-09-23T10:29:00.000+01:002011-09-25T00:30:22.660+01:00Dear Tenbury Town Council...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJtN5Y6gRQ_M9BNsjWfIfrAtndWwJ18tlNY8yYs78vMYQVyfUVl2xC1vvDoWDSbg_4JywdETUIFtK7tyJbNS4KCPxDipyPGNhqTIryKJ7dG09uaD24GZ9Ggd_D1SNrl9FyynNcCvU5gg/s1600/TTC-Letterpic02.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ayoSGTbRtPYirRI6uy5YB49vIny4CB9UUz_0BH-Bt14VhONcqqnPLM7Sra4LeQqLSz1yJID7Y2rTZPfY4I0uF5gmpABWZuWlVr6-NLRJ86XEKmAm7Qi6aKLV5u4pHo2QM3K2mb05pMQ/s400/TTC-Letterpic02.gif" width="480" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
On monday 26th September at 7pm in Tenbury's Pump Rooms Tenbury Town Council will debate whether to offer-up their support to the latest Tesco superstore plan on the cattle market site in the town. Tenbury Futures and a number of individuals have submitted a paper for the Councillors and Lady Mayor to consider during the session. The text from this paper is copied below. We'd urge any locals who share our concerns about Tesco supermarket development on the cattle market to come along on the night to offer up support to the many 100's who have already objected to this latest plan. Their concerns must not be swept under the carpet by either town, district or county councils..</span></b><br />
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</style> </div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF TENBURY TOWN COUNCIL, Fri, 23rd Sept, 2011<br />
</b>Tenbury Futures has clearly already explained its objections to the latest Tesco planning application with a widely-used pro forma planning objection letter. This letter has [and still is] being used by 100’s of people from across the local community – both parents with young families, residents and businesses from the town and adjacent settlements as well as many of the elderly in the community. We do however feel the need to additionally alert the Town Council to a number of other commonly voiced concerns about Tesco and their mode of business.<b><br />
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1. Supporters of the Tesco application say that the RBB building should be demolished as it is not worthy of retention.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is totally contrary to English Heritage’s views (and they presumably can be seen as knowing something about historic buildings), where they say that the RBB building contributes ‘positively to the character and appearance of the Tenbury Wells Conservation Area and that it should be retained’. In addition, the building is still in good order and could provide a new bespoke site to house a larger, more accessible Tenbury Museum via Heritage Lottery funded re-development.</span><b><br />
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2. Those in favour of the application state that it will open up the previously hidden river frontage.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again, English Heritage has specifically stated that the existing riverside frontage should remain intact and untouched. In fact English Heritage go so far as to reject the apparent widening of an opening celebrated in the new proposals – ie. the very issue that Tesco’s supporters believe is a benefit.</span><b><br />
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3. Tesco is said by its supporters to be offering one hundred free parking spaces. </b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is illusory: the spaces are already there and in use on the site. In reality the development offers no extra spaces and – worse – the spaces that are currently free all day will in future be restricted to two hours use. The true figure is then further reduced with Tesco staff using some of these spaces as well as the multiple existing on street spaces that Tesco wish to remove from in front of the Spar building on Teme St.</span><b><br />
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4. We are told that Tesco will bring back shoppers who currently go out of town.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no doubt that those who shop out of town may be drawn to the new store. Inevitably though, those who currently support the town’s existing traders will use it as well – meaning a loss of trade to those local businesses. <br />
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In its financial forecasts Tesco estimate a weekly income of £280,000. This simply cannot derive from the few more retained shoppers that Tesco believe they will attract back. The clear majority of this figure has to come from the tills of independent high street shops of the town – most of which the Tesco store will now compete directly with for custom. Unfortunately though few of the local shops have Tesco’s buying-power and as such will not be able to compete on a level playing field.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both the Conservative Think-Tank '<i>ResPublica</i>' run by Philip Blond and Labour Leader Ed Miliband have expressed concerns over the <i>'Tesco-isation'</i> of our highstreets, ResPublica says: </span></span><br />
<blockquote><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The rise of these vast supermarkets, with the infrastructure needed to sustain them, a bias in the planning system and their enormous purchasing power has crowded out competition. These developments have made it impossible for small retailers to grow. We now have a situation where it is unimaginable that a small family-owned shop could grow into a retailing powerhouse like Tesco, or Sainsbury."</span></span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>More on ResPublica can be found in the Guardian article '<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/01/ed-miliband-supermarket-policy">Ed Miliband Backs Greater Voice for Locals on Spread of Supermarkets</a>', 1 May, 2011</i></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> As with Tesco Ludlow, any large supermarket on the Cattle Market site will act as a ‘one stop shop’ which will start to polarize trade in the town to the Teme Bridge end. Once shoppers at Tesco Ludlow have bought all of their groceries, loaded them into their cars and eyed the limited remaining time left in their parking allotment the majority opt to get their goods home to fridges and freezers as quick as possible. Leaving chilled goods and groceries in their car and wandering-off up into town then becomes a very unlikely scenario. This scenario can only be replicated if a supermarket of this size is allowed to be built in Tenbury – independent town shops already unable to compete are unlikely to see much if any associated trade.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Margaret Edwards, of EJ Poyners in Broad Street, said: “... are terrible now. The trade is just finished up this [non Tesco] end of the town.”</b></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Details on trade polarizing to the Tesco/Aldi end of Ludlow and independent retailers losing profits up town can be found in the Shropshire Star Article: “<a href="http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/13/town-suffering-as-trade-evaporates/">Town Suffering as Trade Evaporates</a>”, Thu 13th May, 2010.</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Tesco is not a Tenbury business: it provides mainly unskilled low-paid jobs, and takes its profits out of the area. Whereas money spent with independent shops circulates within the local economy up to three times longer than when it’s spent with national chains, research by the New Economics Foundation has shown [Quote below].</span><br />
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<blockquote><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">"This means that every £1 spent with a local supplier is worth £1.76 to the local economy, and only 36 pence if it is spent out of the area. That makes £1 spent locally [in independent shops] worth almost 400 per cent more."</span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sourced from: "<a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/press-releases/buying-local-worth-400-cent-more">Buying local worth 400 per cent more</a>", 7 Mar, 2005 </i></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i>We can find many references to Tesco moving in to small towns and their high streets declining [sometimes swiftly] but we could only really find the one reference that suggested Tesco had ‘improved’ a town and this was in Beverley – strangely enough quoted from ex Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy. However scratch the surface and the town’s locals tell a different story:</span></span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> “<b>Beverley didn't need Tesco, it was already a prosperous town. Tesco came to plunder not regenerate. They came to take money out of the economy of an already thriving and wealthy market town.</b>”</span></span></i> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Richard Wilson, retired lecturer and Beverley resident [taken from ‘<a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2338">Checkout Chuckout</a>’ – Corporate Watch, 2006].</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this area you only need to look at Llandrindod Wells which is a larger market town with a wider range of shops. No-one there bothered to object when Tesco submitted plans for a supermarket – they all thought that it would ‘benefit’ the town. Within just a few months though the local traders realized their mistake culminating in emergency meetings of their Chamber of Trade trying to address the sharp downturn in both profits and footfall. One local trader and member of their chamber related the story as follows:</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><i> "In the first 3 months they [Tesco] have devastated the local high street to the tune of a 35% to 64% downturn... They are actively targeting the local Boots store [35% to 40% down] and the local Co-Op [formerly Somerfield 65% down]. Most other retail businesses are experiencing between 15% and 30% decline... some 4 months after Tesco opening. The biggest problem has been the reduction in footfall, people are using Tesco as a one-stop shop and not walking or even driving into the old town centre..."</i></b></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Further details can be found on this story in the Rhyll Journal article of 15th Oct 2010 “<a href="http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/94468/traders-hold-crisis-talks-as-tesco-hits-sales.aspx">Traders Hold Crisis Talks as Tesco Hits Sales</a>”.</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>5. It is claimed that the development will enhance the street scene – although this claim is without support.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact English Heritage specifically states that the development will have a detrimental effect on the character and distinctiveness of Tenbury Wells’ historic environment.<br />
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With the town’s constant desire to try to increase its tourism draw and related incomes from this sector - surely the town council ignores this advice at its peril?</span><b><br />
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6. Supporters of Tesco claim that it will provide healthy competition.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">There can be no rational person who believes that a multinational giant that is famous for its maltreatment of suppliers and that has been proven to operate predatory pricing is healthy competition for family-owned shops. What small enterprise is there that chooses to set up next to a Tesco?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">If the application is accepted, the supermarket’s aggressive discounting capabilities will soon start to affect local shops and supply chains in Tenbury. It won’t just be the shops that suffer but their network of local suppliers who will also start to lose out. Indeed Tesco has a very poor record on stocking local foods and simply just couldn’t offer-up local Tenbury apples from the supplier in the same valley as independent grocery shops could in the town. In fact, due to Tesco’s huge central distribution network, if they wished to stock Tenbury or Teme Valley apples the journey of these apples would be as follows: </span></span><br />
<blockquote><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Road transport from Teme Valley to UK port on the east coast.<br />
2. Transport by ship to Eastern Europe where they will be cleaned and packaged + misc transport by road on the continent.<br />
3. Transport back to the UK again by ship.<br />
4. Road transport to Coventry distribution hub.<br />
5. Road transport to cold storage at Avonmouth. </span></span></b></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only after travelling the final 80 miles from Avonmouth to Tenbury will these Teme Valley apples be ready to sit on a Tenbury Tesco shelf. Those apples will have travelled 1000’s of miles when they could have been brought from around the corner. This is food miles gone mad and a PR disaster for Tesco when the unsustainable methods they use are exposed yet again.</span></span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Further details on Tesco’s poor record on food miles can be found in articles: "<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/03/food-miles-environment-impact">From here to eternity: 340-mile journey for clotted cream made two miles away</a>". Guardian, 3rd Sep 2010 and "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7710409/Tesco-criticised-for-selling-Peruvian-asparagus-in-British-home-of-the-vegetable.html">Tesco criticised for selling Peruvian asparagus in British home of the vegetable</a>". Daily Telegraph, 11th May, 2010.</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>7. Tesco’s supporters have put forward the widening of the bridge as being a reason to accept the development.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact there is to be no widening – which presumably means that this is a reason for the application to be rejected. WCC said in their public meeting at the High School that they have their ‘hands tied’ by English Heritage whose duty it is to police the bridge in accordance with its status as a unique Scheduled Ancient Monument. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">We’ve all seen lorries and buses mounting pavements to get around the bend with just one car coming the other direction. This situation just gets amplified at peak times – times that will become much more frequent with the increase in road users and HGV traffic if Tesco are allowed to build on the Cattle Market site. The bridge can’t be improved – it is beyond help. Do not condemn the townspeople to traffic misery by inviting in Tesco and their massive potential traffic increases.</span><b><br />
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8. Supporters of the development also state that Tesco is to contribute to the public realm works.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">To date Tesco has made no such statement – and the simple hope that it might contribute money is just that – simple hope.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this context, <b>Planning Gain = Legitimate Bribery </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">For more information on Tesco and the pressure they levy on local council planning services and 'planning gain' please see the Corporate Watch article "<a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2357">Checkout Chuckout: Tesco and the planning system</a>".</span></i></span></span></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b> 9. Supporters of the development claim that the store is an ‘eco development’.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On analysis this PR claim clearly doesn’t ring true either. Commercial use of sustainable technologies such as Solar PV, Solar Water Heating, Wind Power, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Heat Exchangers, and Wood Chip Boilers utilising chipped waste or quick growing woods is now widespread in large developments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The furniture superstore Ikea runs 52 wind turbines in France and Germany, is presently building a wind farm to power 17 new Swedish stores and has an end goal of running their stores on 100% renewable energy. In contrast, Tesco’s proposal that they use ‘glass and wood’ on this build -utilising the simplest renewable technology, that of ‘solar gain’ - and that this will supposedly constitute an ‘eco build’ is both an example of gross tokenism, PR gloss as well as Tescos’ arrogance<span style="font-size: large;">. <span style="font-size: small;">Their plans are about as <i>'eco'</i> as a Saudi Prince's personal fleet of Hummers.</span></span></span></span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Ref: <a href="http://inhabitat.com/ikea-building-its-own-personal-wind-farm-to-power-17-swedish-stores/">http://inhabitat.com/ikea-building-its-own-personal-wind-farm-to-power-17-swedish-stores/</a></span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">We urge Tenbury Town Council to reject the advances of Tesco in the town and so help safeguard the independent shops in the town’s high street – especially in this time of difficult trading. We also urge you to consider the massive increases in both traffic and congestion that this development will generate now that the Teme Bridge is to remain in its current format. Surely the cattle market site should be sensitively and sustainably developed so that it provides a benefit right across the community <i>and</i> helps with the town's tourism draw? The Future is in your hands.</span><br />
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</b>On behalf of the Tenbury Futures Group.<b><br />
</b></span></span></span></span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-36652523470980817732011-09-14T14:11:00.000+01:002011-09-15T10:11:20.080+01:00Another Hundred Tesco Objections go to Malvern's Planners...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The latest tranche of Tesco planning objections.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">nother 100 Tesco planning objections is about to wing it's way to Malvern Hills.. Participating shops taking in objections in Tenbury have reported a steady flow of planning objections coming in - both bespoke hand-written, bespoke word-processed as well as completed pro-forma objections as offered-up by Tenbury Futures.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">One of the participating shops we spoke to today confirmed that in a just couple of weeks alone they had already received and passed-on <b>over 300 individual Tesco planning objections</b> to Malvern Hills planners. While we can't reveal individual names on the objections we can confirm that they are coming from all sections of local society - including parents of young families, the elderly and both residents and local businesses. Well here's another hundred for the pot [above] and there's still a number of weeks until the end of the consultancy period.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even as we were taking these pictures today additional planning objections were still flowing in to the participating shops we spoke to. Yet again this is very clear evidence of the unerring strength of feeling within the local community against a large supermarket of this type on Tenbury's cattle market site.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We'd just like to take this moment to thank all those 100's of local people who have already made their feelings against Tesco's plans very clear again in written objections. We'll be monitoring the rest of the objections coming in and will report on them again at the point that they're no longer accepted by Malvern Hills Planners.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Remember too that Malvern will be accepting objections for a number of weeks yet [we now believe the cut off is Nov 2nd 2011]. You can still download our pre-written pro-forma objection letters from this site using the buttons at the top left of the site or just click these below:</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-45854710237964413422011-09-12T19:30:00.000+01:002011-09-23T17:54:38.097+01:00Have WCC Done Their Bailey Bridge Homework?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist's impression of how a Bailey Bridge might look across the Teme.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tenbury Futures have been double-checking some sums offered-up by Richard Attwood, Worcester County Council's Engineering Project Manager in charge of the Teme Bridge closure and works. Mr Attwood recently confirmed that the idea of a temporary supporting Bailey Bridge for the duration of the Teme bridge closure [a period of months] was effectively more than WCC were prepared to pay. Adding salt to the wound though, WCC have provided a full report explaining their logic with new bridge works in Evesham but not for our town. It would seem on the surface that Tenbury doesn't warrant the same treatment or attention to detail with 6 months of Teme bridge closure visited upon us as a <i>fait accompli</i>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
Mr Richard Attwood said: </span></span></div><blockquote style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"I believe there is an assertion that a Bailey Bridge could be provided economically [across the River Teme] based upon the experiences of 2009 in Cumbria. The reality of this is that the Cumbrian site was more rural and the hinterland around was reasonably flat with a shallower river channel which made the provision much easier. Nevertheless, the cost I am led to believe was in the order of £4M..."</i></span></b></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Some Quick Homework...</b><br />
And yet a quick check on Bailey Bridge suppliers reveals the company '<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beaverbridges.co.uk%2F&rct=j&q=beaver%20bridges&ei=MlJuTuvsLMWY8QPz9-wn&usg=AFQjCNEy2p7K-h15iaUYK7fvXIBqGmUSVQ&sig2=0RiNITyonLueLu0JVkHfrg&cad=rja">Beaver Bridges</a>' based 40 minutes drive north of Tenbury in Church Stretton. We took the liberty of contacting Beaver Bridges and asked them for a quote on a temporary Bailey-type bridge of a length suitable for a Teme crossing. To our surprise, a Bailey Bridge of this scale cost a fraction of Mr Attwood's £4 million estimate. A bridge of this nature would not only provide vehicle access to the town while Teme bridge closure and works were ongoing but also provide full access to the town for fire engines based in Burford and alternatively full police cover for Burford.<br />
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In fact for a period of 7 months [much longer than Mr Attwood expects the Teme Bridge to be closed] the cost of installation, hire, maintenance and deconstruction was £210,000.<br />
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<b>Extract from Beaver Bridges Quote, Monday Sept 5th 2011:</b><br />
</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">Required on site:..................... December 2011</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Specifications</i></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">a) 45.8m long x 4.2m Wide x 40/44te capacity modular bridge</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">b) All steel construction c/w steel Durbar deck plate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">c) Simple (non-compliant) pedestrian parapet restraints.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">d) Bridge unit weighs (undecked) – 39 tonnes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">e) Bridge unit weighs (decked) – 65 tonnes</span></blockquote><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">2) <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Financials</i></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">a) Weekly Hire rate – £5,550+VAT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">b) Transport to site - £9,000 + VAT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">c) Erection on site – £12,000 + VAT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">d) Dismantle on site – £12,000 + VAT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">e) Return to depot – £9,000 + VAT</span></blockquote><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">3) <i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Client to provide</span></i></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">a) Suitable crane to unload and install the bridge and to carry out the reverse operation</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">b) Suitable access equipment – as necessary to carry out the bridge installation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">[We are awaiting an additional quote to cover these latter areas which we will add when one is sent].</span></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evesham's Temporary Bailey Bridge</b><br />
Evesham is currently having similar issues with one of their bridges (note that their bridge, although a major route for the town, does not provide the only crossing of the river in the way that the Teme Bridge does for Tenbury). There is a full report on the Worcestershire County Council website about the problems with the Evesham bridge, the options that have been considered, the pros and cons of each option, and information about consultation with the local community. <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/transport-and-highways/transport-schemes/evesham-abbey-bridge.aspx">http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/transport-and-highways/transport-schemes/evesham-abbey-bridge.aspx</a><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no such information concerning the Teme Bridge, and if any report exists it has not been made public. Indeed.. <i>could</i> it be said that there is <i>no</i> documentation for Tenbury because WCC hasn't really carried-out an effective consultation on this locally? Is there simply little or no content to create such a document? In terms of local shop keepers, all they have apparently had is questions and short conversations about deliveries <b>AFTER</b> the bridge closes. It would seem from the Tenbury Futures questionnaire in the previous post that discussion of what options are available to keep the high street as vibrant as possible during this closure - [or even whether the bridge needs to fully close as per the traffic lights and 7.5tonne weight limit on the 'A' road over the Holt Bridge] have clearly <b>not</b> been explored in consultation locally.<br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In summary:</b><br />
Evesham gets a Bailey Bridge to ensure full traffic flow during it's bridge works and a full report justifying this work. Tenbury to date has been told the bridge closure will last for 'a number of months'. No exact figures have been provided and no report has been made public.<br />
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<b>WCC claim: </b><br />
Temporary Teme Bailey Bridge for 3 or so months to cost in the region of:<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>£4 Million</b></span><br />
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<b>Tenbury Futures' Bailey Bridge Quote for 7 months:</b><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>£210,000</b></span><br />
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That's a difference of nearly £3.8 million pounds.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come on Mr Attwood, please give Tenbury the time of day, we're taking this seriously even if you're not..</span><br />
</span></div>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-63274079239755943672011-08-31T15:21:00.000+01:002011-09-01T13:58:49.473+01:00Tenbury Town Centre Shops Questionnaire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">There has been much discussion in the town about the merits of closing the Teme Bridge to traffic over the few weeks in which we've known about the plan. We thought we'd do a small questionnaire within the town's shops* to see what their opinions were about bridge closure and impending semi-closures due to potential public realm works. The majority results to the questions asked are shown above in the graphic.</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">[* 32 Shops polled, 2-3 shops didn't answer all questions].</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">QUESTIONS ASKED</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">1. Did the Council consult you before announcing that the bridge would close?</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- The majority answer was that they felt they had not been effectively consulted before bridge closure was announced. A survey ascertaining the delivery needs of shops was done however <span style="font-weight: bold;">after </span>WCC had already announced they were to close the bridge.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Would the bridge closing affect your business?</span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- 100% said it would affect their business.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Rather than close the bridge, should they keep it open with a weight limit, while discussing future plans?</span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- Nearly 100% said that the bridge should be kept open albeit with a weight limit while the full range of options available was discussed with them.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">4. [A] Should money be spent on strengthening the existing bridge so 44 tonne trucks can come through Tenbury, or [B] Should the money go towards a new bridge?</span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- The majority said that they would prefer the monies spent on the Teme Bridge to go towards a new bridge for the town.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Did the Council consult you before announcing that the pavements will be taken up?</span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- Nearly 100% said they had no consultation from the Council before this idea was announced.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">6. If the pavements are to be taken up, and if the bridge is to close, should all the work be done at once?</span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">- The majority felt that if various works were to be undertaken that these should be constrained so they worked together to cause minimum issues to Teme St traffic.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Do you support the loss of on street parking as part of the public realm works?</span></span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- Nearly 100% were not in favour of on street parking being removed from Teme St as part of any public realm scheme.</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">CONCLUSIONS & ACTIONS</span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There seems to be some pretty conclusive majorities of opinion demonstrated here. As such we believe that the Worcester County Council need to disclose and explain publicly: </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">1. What their exact figures, plans and timescales are for the Teme Bridge refurbishment scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">2. Explain exactly why alternatives to complete closure can't be actioned during any works. For example weight limits [as with the 'A' Road and bridge at Holt over the R.Severn] or traffic lights. </span> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">3. Fully explain why the combination of the monies set aside for both the public realm works in the town and the existing Teme Bridge refurbishment [which must amount to many millions of pounds] couldn't be better employed in the construction of a new, more efficient Teme Bridge that would help ensure the future viability of the town.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: red; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>WHO ARE TENBURY FUTURES?</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tenbury Futures’ sole objective is to help to ensure that Tenbury has a sustainable and vibrant future as a unique town in which people want to live and visit.</span><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The group is made up of supporters of a range of ages, from parents with young children, to the retired, and from many walks of life. We share a love of Tenbury and came together out of concern for a town that we value for its diversity and liveliness. Our primary aim is to make sure that all options for the careful and sustainable development of the Cattle Market site are considered by providing a voice for local people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We deliberately do not have leaders, spokesmen, committees, etc. We are not developers, civil engineers or surveyors, nor, as some have assumed, are we fronting the local traders. Like the traders, however, we are interested in the viability and success of Tenbury. A vibrant town will bring in more visitors, enable more activities and businesses to thrive, and benefit everyone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is our purpose?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have no fixed agenda of our own; instead our aim is to invite, collate and publicise options for the Cattle Market site by gathering together ideas from the people who should have the greatest say in these matters – the people of Tenbury. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our own influences are widespread, which tallies with our broad draw from the local community. Our supporters have interests in the idea of transition towns which can help rejuvenate town centres, green technology and greening business, increasing tourism, highlighting and supporting the heritage of the town, and many, many others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Where do our ideas come from?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">To avoid possible 'nimbyism' we began in March 2011 by asking anyone and everyone in the town to let us know what <i>they</i> thought should happen to the site, making a feedback questionnaire available to everyone and allowing all opinions to be expressed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The outcome of that survey was a very clear desire in our respondents, who were overwhelmingly local, for the Cattle Market site to be developed in a sustainable and blended manner that would benefit our local community. The ballot was held fairly, transparently and accountably, and the results were displayed in town and on our website, where they are still available for all to see. All of the returns were copied and sent in full to both Tenbury Town Council and Malvern Hills District Council.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have taken those ideas and explored and illustrated them. We have looked for precedents in other places, feasibility in Tenbury, and ways in which they might be funded. As always, the illustrations and ideas were displayed in town, and are available to see on our website.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those who support a Tesco in the town have yet to canvas opinion - indeed, Tesco themselves have provided absolutely no verifiable<i> </i>evidence of their claim that there is a demand for their store in Tenbury. Our feedback forms allowed and encouraged the expression of all ideas, and showed that about 11%<span style="color: red;"> </span>of respondents were in favour of a supermarket of some sort (including much more modest proposals), while around 75%<span style="color: red;"> </span>were strongly opposed to such a plan. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The new bridge concept is one of a number of ideas sent to us by concerned locals and our role has been to highlight this and other ideas locally via whatever means we could muster. Despite some local pessimism, the concept is sufficiently viable to have received consideration at local authority level, indeed the costings are based directly on Herefordshire Council's and those of their bridge construction specialist, Halcrow. No local body or council has admitted to the full repair costs of the current bridge, and it may well be that these are so great (and English Heritage's views on the resulting effects on a Scheduled Ancient Monument so strong) that the new bridge idea becomes a viable proposition.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Our Dearest Wish</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our dearest wish is to see Tenbury kept vibrant and independent and to show that, contrary to the words of one of MHDC's district councillors, there is indeed a considered 'Plan B' for the site. Tenbury can do far better than allowing a Tesco supermarket to be built on the cattle market site. Tenbury is worth the effort.</span></div>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-11771648715314116352011-08-19T12:49:00.000+01:002011-08-20T10:40:18.143+01:00Please Object to The Latest Tesco Supermarket Plan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0uY9Xxj-imLUTLn2aoyh0QSFCZe77ebTv-vGReLv4Qx5471RPUKO3SXwj99AqtP0or2aSSh6-VteESUc0zpIn_CNNy_Va-YZBCAsBduoOILz-8RX2iSht7fbfVpGNLpbk9RP-iSX4hqI/s1600/tesco-out-blog-pic.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0uY9Xxj-imLUTLn2aoyh0QSFCZe77ebTv-vGReLv4Qx5471RPUKO3SXwj99AqtP0or2aSSh6-VteESUc0zpIn_CNNy_Va-YZBCAsBduoOILz-8RX2iSht7fbfVpGNLpbk9RP-iSX4hqI/s320/tesco-out-blog-pic.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642534185776319426" border="0" /></a>
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<br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">• <span style="font-weight: bold;">Closures of highstreet shops and businesses</span> & overall loss of local jobs*.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">[* National Retailer Planning Forum [NRPF] 1998 study].</span></span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Want to object against the new Tesco application but don’t understand all the planning criteria and wording? If ‘yes’ then get our pre-formatted objection letter for free:</span></span>
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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >5. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We’ll do the rest!</span></span></span></span>Tenbury Futureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577858615988411115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-80215983102064025132011-08-16T22:08:00.000+01:002011-08-16T22:35:24.236+01:00New Tesco Superstore Planning Documents Now 'Live' For Scrutiny<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >To alert you to the fact that the latest application by Tesco to build a superstore on the cattle market site in Tenbury is now 'live' online for your scrutiny. The store is an 'A1' class superstore - which means that it could easily include [or add at a future date without great issue] a pharmacy, post office and hardware/homewares on top of the large range of discounted food goods it will stock. This of course could potentially affect a large percentage of the remaining embattled shops in the town instead of just the food shops which we feared on the last application. If you wish to look available documents over then you can do so by undertaking the following: </span> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> 1. Firstly go online and copy-in the following address to your browser: </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"> <a href="http://e-access.malvernhills.gov.uk/eaccess/Applicationsearch.asp"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>http://e-access.malvernhills.gov.uk/eaccess/Applicationsearch.asp</strong></span></a> </p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> This should take you to Malvern's Planning Application seach page. </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> 2. The tap in the following reference for the new application in the 'Application Number' box: <strong>11/00887/FUL </strong>
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is defined as: "<em>Erection of Class A1 Food Store, Associated Car Parking, Open Space and Landscaping and Access Improvement Works</em>" [They will have to apply separately again to try to demolish the Old Infirmary Building - which we'd expect at the 11th hour so that as few people could digest it and offer-up objections as possible]. </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> This should then display a page titled: "<strong>Planning Application Summary"</strong>, to look through documentation look on the left hand side of the page where you should see a set of blue links to follow-up/review. </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> 3. These documents are also available at Tenbury Library for review as hardcopies too (where you can take photocopies for more in depth scrutiny if you wish). When we spoke with the duty planner there today she assured us that as she was posting the 'Planning Application' signs around and near the site today and that this will allow the required 21 days from today's date [16th August] for individuals and organisations to formally object in writing or e-mails to them. The likelyhood though as this is such a massive development that the process will be open more like 13 weeks.
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<br />We're presently pouring through the documents ourselves in order that we get a full picture of the new application. In the first instance we'd encourage individuals to write to MHDC's planners themselves explaining their concerns and objections. We must be clear though in that only letters dealing with planning-related issues will be taken forward to formal objections [i.e. emotive or passionate requests that Tenbury be left alone will not be counted as a formal 'planning objection' (although we'd understand the temptation).
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">If this all seems a bit of a minefield of documents and forms then we'll soon upload a pro-forma objection letter addressing the salient concerns on the Tenbury Futures blog site [and we'll alert you that we've done so] that you can simply just print, sign and send or drop in to a local highstreet shop. This proved a very effective method of getting a large number [apparently over 800 people locally] to object formally in writing which had a very definite sway from such a small community on the last occasion. </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> 5. <strong>And Finally</strong>
<br />There is much discussion in the town about this potential Tesco taking over from Tesco's home delivery van operation that currently operates out of the Ludlow store. This may account for the fact that the proposed new Tenbury store [pop 3,500] is even bigger than the last. Needless to say, if this happens then the additional strain on town and bridge traffic would be tremendous on top of that we already forcast.
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Tesco's are more than happy to change the use of their stores once they've been built and indeed did just that at Tetbury in the Cotswolds. They'd sold their plan to the town as creating a large number of shop floor retail jobs. Within months of opening though the Tetbury store closed much of it's floorspace and turned the rest over to warehousing which supported it's Tesco Home online catalog business. The consequence of course was that less staff were required on site and the staff were thinned-down to a small fraction of the original number with most of the remainder put on to short term or part time contracts. It does make one look at the new site's massive floorspace in an entirely new way.. </span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>References:</strong>
<br />You may like to follow-up these references too if you're keen to learn a little more about the company who wishes to parachute in a superstore in the town [these just a sample - there are many, many more out there]: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/john-harris-fight-against-supermarkets">
<br /></a></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/john-harris-fight-against-supermarkets">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/john-harris-fight-against-supermarkets
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<br /></a><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/john-harris-fight-against-supermarkets"> </a><a href="http://www.tescopoly.org/">http://www.tescopoly.org/ </a></span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> <a href="http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/super_markets_corporate_bullies.pdf">http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/super_markets_corporate_bullies.pdf </a></span></p> <p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html
<br /></a></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html">http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/94468/traders-hold-crisis-talks-as-tesco-hits-sales.aspx</a></span></p><p face="georgia"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/03/food-miles-environment-impact</a></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1277180/Tesco-selling-asparagus-Peru--town-famous-producing-vegetable.html</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Proposed New Bridge - Views: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clr Pollock and WCC have issued a statement that responds to Tenbury Futures' suggestions for an additional new, modern alternate bridge which would help secure the town's vitality well into the future... Having given consideration to this our response as a group reads as follows:</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Much speculation is developing about the prospect for a new second bridge for Tenbury, apparently to save a million pounds expenditure on restoring the existing bridge. However, there are a number of key considerations that bring a reality to the approach being proposed by the County Council.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The key reason for a new bridge is simply that Tenbury needs a bridge that is fit for 21st Century conditions; a bridge that is wide enough and straight enough for today's traffic, allowing two trucks to pass without driving on the pavement, causing traffic chaos and endangering pedestrians. A second bridge would obviate the need to strengthen the existing bridge, avoid needless interference with a Scheduled Ancient Monument and allow some funds to be transferred to the new bridge programme - although this saving is not the key factor.</span></b></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Worcestershire County Council as custodian of a Scheduled Monument is obliged to keep the structure in good order and along with other structures included Teme Bridge in the five year major maintenance programme of strategic river crossings which will be drawing to a close next year.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It is one thing '"to keep the structure in good order", it is a different matter to alter a Scheduled Ancient Monument so that thousands of heavy lorries can pour across it each year.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Furthermore, as Highway Authority the County Council is bound by the national code of practice for the management of highway structures and compliance therewith ensures that important infrastructure remains available and safe to use.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tenbury Futures has never proposed that highway infrastructure should be unavailable or unsafe. It is the Council that is proposing to make the bridge unavailable while strengthening it for 44 tonne trucks – and it is the Council that is proposing removing one of the footways, forcing pedestrians to cross moving traffic. Proposals for a new bridge will ensure that the County Council abide by the national code of practice – as opposed to making do with the current bridge where the safety of pedestrians is endangered.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">County Councillor Ken Pollock – Local Member for Tenbury said; "Refurbishing the existing bridge is not only an obligation, in terms of both heritage and good housekeeping, but is also the most cost effective and will give the best return on expenditure in these difficult financial times"</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Can Cllr Pollock provide evidence that the Council's plan is, overall, the most cost-effective? How much trade would Tenbury lose while the bridge is closed? Driving round the diversion routes would add a substantial mileage and every mile costs money. What is the Council's proposed total cost to people and businesses affected by the closure: not just loss of business and extra mileage, but also including a reasonable allowance for the extra time and extra accidents?</span></b></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Knightwick and Stanford Bridges, both of which have been bypassed were literally single lane roads. Engineers are looking to ease the pinch-point at Tenbury as part of the refurbishment which will improve traffic flows."</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">For large trucks the Teme Bridge is effectively a single lane road. When two large trucks pass, one or both drives on the pavement. This is unsafe and unacceptable. If the Council is improving traffic flows elsewhere in Tenbury, a new bridge will become even more appropriate.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The concern about the proposed temporary closure of the existing bridge to vehicular traffic at the start of 2012 and the effect that this might have on the businesses in the town is recognised by the County Council who are working hard to put measures in place to keep the town as vibrant as it can throughout the essential works. There will always be access for disability scooters, pedestrians, and cyclists throughout the works.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">We do not believe that it will be possible to keep Tenbury vibrant while Teme Bridge is closed. Will the Council please provide details of the measures it will introduce to keep the town vibrant – and the costs involved (for use in comparing the overall costs of building a new bridge against repairing the old one).</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Richard Attwood – Worcestershire's Engineering Project Manager said; "We are working hard to ensure that the essential repairs to the bridge are undertaken in the most efficient way possible to reduce the impact on the town. The invasive structural investigations undertaken in May this year have provided valuable data from the fabric of the bridge which is being used to design the refurbishment.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The bridge works are not mere "essential repairs". The works are partly to strengthen the bridge, to make it able to bear 44 tonne trucks on an ongoing basis. We do not think 44 tonne trucks should be encouraged to drive over a Scheduled Ancient Monument – and we note that no reference of the views of English Heritage on the matter have been sought by the Council.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The costs of providing a second bridge need to be put into perspective and refurbishment costs will pale into relative insignificance when the cost of a new construction over a river enjoying SSSI [Site of Special Scientific Interest] status and land purchase costs are taken into account.</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The costs of a new bridge do need to be put in perspective; that is to say, they need to be compared to other major capital projects in Worcestershire. A new bridge would cost more than the planned work on Teme Bridge, but a 'solution' should not be selected simply because it is the cheapest. The Council's plan would not provide Tenbury with a bridge that is fit for today's traffic; Futures' plan would. As Mr Attwood knows, our cost investigation specifically used the example of a recently-constructed bridge across a river that is an SSSI. Mr Attwood has been provided with the costs of a comparable bridge; we challenge him to disclose the overall costs of the proposed work on the existing bridge so that the public can decide which is the cheaper option overall.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The diagrammatic plan accompanying the Tenbury Futures proposals is simply that and it is unlikely that highway standards could be achieved without the demolition of at least one building to provide an acceptable junction with Teme Street.</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The launderette is not shown on the visualisation because the proposal allows for its demolition, providing an easy turn and wide clearance, for traffic to flow from the existing Teme Street onto the link route to the new bridge. We are concerned that Mr Attwood may have dismissed the details of the proposal without even understanding it.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The cost of the bridge and the approaches will run into several millions of pounds.</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Mr Attwood needs to provide details of the costs of the current proposals for the existing bridge, the measures being taken to support the town during its closure, the costs to businesses in the town and the costs to residents and visitors in terms of additional travel time and costs. He also needs to quantify the costs for the communities on the proposed alternative routes during the closure – and the costs of resulting road repairs to those routes – including routes paid for by other Councils. Overall we believe that a new bridge is a relatively cheap scheme with huge benefits. The cost has been considered and detailed; details of how the money can be found from within the budgets of both the County Councils affected, as well as the District Council, will be released in due course.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The final consideration is whether the County Council can justify adding a further bridge to its structural maintenance obligations for years to come."</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Maintaining a medieval bridge in modern traffic conditions is costly; adding one purpose-built may actually reduce the overall future maintenance obligations – not increase them. Again, Mr Attwood needs to provide the figures so that Council Tax payers can judge his statement here on the basis of facts.</span></b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It is the Council's duty to provide a highways network that is fit for the 21st century. The Council cannot shirk its responsibilities simply by claiming that meeting them costs money – particularly when they have provided no support for that claim. There have been many major investments elsewhere in the County and it is time that the Council invested in Tenbury.</span></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-55652567597224580092011-07-01T15:20:00.000+01:002011-07-17T19:35:16.177+01:00Tenbury Futures' PLAN B<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMyLLprdQq4HZDMZ3lp36VYzDPUxkSaQSg1tug_ZWOlColllfUo7V-3lm3wwAL5FY5uic6lCy3kNP4ZTQ9reC4ciQzPtCRacP00PzCTG3H90hc_q-Bc44P1-7-7ukDwVS59hriFL9b8No/s1600/Plan-B-cover-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Thanks to all those who sent back People's Plan/Cattle Market development ideas for consideration & discussion on the Tenbury Futures blog. There were some great ideas returned and we didn't publish all of them on here but selected a few that we felt we could visualise and which would prompt further discussion. On the back of these ideas and along with the earlier 'Community Questionnaire' results, we've produced our vision of how we'd like to persue re-development of the Cattle Market site with our 'Plan B'.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Central to this plan are the range of values that we possess within the Futures group - these include those of developing and enhancing facilities for the local community, improving Tenbury's tourism appeal and creating a sustainable, healthy and vibrant environment in the town for people to live, work and visit.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Download "Plan B" as a multi-page .pdf file by clicking on the link below]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">[<a href="http://www.thebumblebee.co.uk/futures/Futures-Plan-B.pdf"><b>Click to download PLAN B</b></a>] </span><br />
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<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Mary Portas' New Review of High Streets</span></b></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mary has been asked by central government to do a review of our highstreets and look into what makes them vibrant places for people to shop and on the flip side the challenges to them [such as out of town and large supermarket competition].</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can see her website and the initial discussions on this [<a href="http://www.maryportas.com/news/2011/05/17/the-future-of-the-high-street/" style="color: #4c1130;"><b>here</b></a>].</span></span></div><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Channel 4 Documentary on Tesco's Working Methods:</span></b></div><br />
<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.co.uk/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1381639014893922585&hl=en-GB&fs=true" style="height: 426px; width: 500px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-37621564655794316842011-05-22T22:02:00.000+01:002011-07-05T17:49:16.796+01:00Tenbury Futures: The People's Plan - Your Designs Wanted..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last month we successfully balloted the local community and visitors to the town on what they would like to see happen with Tenbury’s old Cattle Market site. Now via the People's Plan we’re inviting everyone to contribute to design ideas for the site [See 'Download' links top right of this site].</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The initial Tenbury Futures survey* returned nearly 300 replies with some definite wants, some conclusive not-wants, and some ideas on which there were mixed views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>* You wanted:</b></span><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those in the survey's 300 replies mainly wanted the re-use of the old infirmary as a museum and tourist information centre, the construction of a riverside walk and café. Then came additional parking and an area to accommodate Tenbury’s many events, popular with locals and visitors – such as the unique mistletoe market, the apple fest, the food festival, the fair and the popular car boot sales. Also rated highly was improved and enlarged recycling facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">* You didn't want:</span> </b></span><br />
There was very little support in the 300 replies for a single large retail supermarket development and the majority opted for ideas that would benefit the wider community. There were mixed views on small-scale retail or commercial development and on a hydro-electric micro-generation plant for the town. </div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The People's Plan:</b></span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Drawing skills:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">There’s no need to be good at drawing though; what we want to see is your ideas and rough designs. Once the survey is complete (there is a closing date of 30 Jun 2011) we will collate the responses and look into having plans drawn up based on the most popular site layouts.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Community-wide feedback:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We’d like as many people to participate as possible and are hoping for feedback from individuals, schools, community groups, churches etc – in fact anyone who is interested in the future of Tenbury's Cattle Market site.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The plan:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We have drawn up a simple site plan [not to scale] for participants to complete [below] to get the ball rolling, the information is accompanied by some sketches of possible options – although these are only ideas to stimulate debate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These ideas also potentially help generate a set of facilities that compliment Tenbury's existing ongoing developments [Regal Cinema etc] while helping to enhance both local community facilities and local tourism further.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Particularly significant could be a new or supporting venue for our unique mistletoe market, food fair or applefest while also providing a new outdoor performance space, riverside cafe and market site or designer-maker units/shops. The site may also provide a space for a new bespoke Community Centre too.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tenbury Cattle Market: Artist's Impression - Angle 01</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Community Trust:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The development could potentially be created by a community-driven trust in the same way as Ludlow's successful <a href="http://www.ludlowmillonthegreen.co.uk/about.aspx">Millenium Green re-development</a>. Their trust has a long list of local members who both help raise monies and help with the running. In addition, they've raised thousands of pounds to assist with the re-development and secured grant monies to help fund ongoing work.</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Returned Ideas:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are some of the returned visual ideas that have been passed to the Futures group.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Mr K, Tenbury Wells</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr K whose points include that the RBB Building should be refurbished as the new location for the Tenbury Museum. Additionally, Mr K believes that the site could be used for a new social centre and large festival site.</span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Mr R, St Michaels, Tenbury Wells</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr R suggests that nr Durban in South Africa they created a riverside esplanade with a beautifully designed complex which housed all kinds of craft industries such as jewellers, artists, potters, booksellers, bars and restaurants - all selling cheap/reasonably priced services/products.</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Click image to enlarge]</span></span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr S, Tenbury Wells</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote><b>Community boating on a raised pool</b><br />
Mr S wanted to follow-up comments on the Tenbury Blog by creating a quick visual of an idea that had been raised some years back about a possible raised slow-moving stretch of water for a community boating area. The idea was apparently dismissed at the time [and this really is just an additional bolt-on idea - no formal funding ideas offered-up] when it was raised. But in the light of attracting additional tourism and monies to the town's local shops - this sort of idea could potentially assist. Much like Ludlow where [despite the Teme being SSSI] town council-run boats have been hired-out on the river by the popular car park underneath the castle. Not only could this be open to the public but it could be used by local clubs and societies for kayaking etc - for example, the local scouts, maybe Bockleton Hall outdoor persuits centre and Tenbury High School's outdoor club. In these days of uber health and safety though and people litigating at the drop of a hat this sort of an idea might be a hard sell - but it's an idea and ideas are the currency here.<br />
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<b>Combined with micro hydro power generation</b><br />
As a postscript though it could also be made to combine with micro hydro power generation at the weir end. This incorporation of micro hydro has already been given planning permission at an existing weir further down the River Teme as well as the weir re-build ongoing upstream on the Teme at Bromfield - specifically to incorporate micro hydro electricity so there are clear precedents for this. The power generated [one of the areas where govt devt grants haven't been totally pulled] could power some or all of the Cattle Market development maybe. It could even generate some spare capacity to feed in to the national grid - at which point it could also help pay for itself too by receiving <a href="http://www.icax.co.uk/Feed-In_Tariffs.html">hydro electric feed-in tariffs</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The weir being rebuilt at Bromfield on the River Teme <br />
for hydro electric power generation [taken May 2011].</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The public information board placed next to the weir re build. <br />
It claims it will create enough consistent power to supply the equivalent <br />
of 420 average homes.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<i>Your plan is very good</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Mr J, Tenbury Wells</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[from returned forms]</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr S, Orleton ~ Solar PV Panel Shadeports</td></tr>
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<blockquote><b>Solar PV Shadeports</b><br />
Mr S explains that the US has been using <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/solar-electrical-systems-installs-las-largest-solar-shadeport-at-los-angeles-air-force-base-93000914.html">'solar shadeports'</a> for car parking since 2009 and that this sort of power generation scenario could be applied to the Cattle Market site [and/or any open car parks in the town] too. Although this is only a rough visual, solar arrays of the scale above could generate up 124272 kWhrs.per annum. There is a chance that finance towards development of this sort of scenario may be possible too. Using <a href="http://www.enecsys.com/products/overview.php">new technology</a> it's even possible to get 240v 50Hz direct from these sorts of panels. With <a href="http://solarfeedintariff.co.uk/">solar feed-in tariffs</a> this sort of scenario could also either help additionally pay for itself or maybe even earn the site monies if a surplus to the local requirements were generated.</blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">G.A. suggests a blend of 'Futures' ideas with a Superstore.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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G.A. suggests keeping the RBB Building but allowing Tesco to build on the site - creating a mix of refs which may appeal to a broad range of Tenbury's residents. They suggest that the car park be made available by the supermarket to assist with local festivals, Mistletoe Sales and Carnivals etc too.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>An Alternate Teme Bridge and Relief Rd.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suggested replacement bridge and relief road - Tenbury.<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>Possible Semi-Pedestrianised Teme St<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Possible Teme St One Way Scheme and Semi-Pedestrianised Area<br />
Allied to the New Relief Rd Idea</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>Possible Traffic Light Array: Crow Turning</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Possible Traffic Light Array for Option A [Above] </td></tr>
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<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As discussed on the <a href="http://tenburywells.blogspot.com/">Tenbury blog</a> recently, the old Teme Bridge in Tenbury has been identified as needing substantial repair work to the tune of millions of pounds just to make it safe. The discussion suggested that as the old bridge was the 'lifeline of the town' and that we should really think about securing easy future access to the town as opposed to short term sticking plasters on the old bridge. To do so could be to divert the majority of those millions and put them towards a plan that better allowed Tenbury to flourish and grow into the future instead of constantly dealing with the bottleneck that is the old bridge. The idea being that the old Teme Bridge [which is a unique Scheduled Ancient Monument] would then have the stresses of increasing HGV usage, increasingly regular traffic jams due to the 'bend' in it and the resultant increases in structural problems on it removed as traffic transferred to an alternate modern crossing of the Teme.</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such a crossing and relief road would cost many more millions - that's clear. But maybe there comes a time when the local authorities need to take the long view and invest accordingly to secure the long term future of the town.</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a spin-off, the old bridge's use could be scaled-back so that it accommodates pedestrians, cyclists and emergency vehicles only. This would make this end of the town much quieter and the combination of this, the picturesque river location and the unique bridge architecture could have a dramatic effect on local tourism. In fact it was mentioned on the blog that there might be similarities to the situation at 'Ironbridge' in terms of tourist draw [not that the Teme Bridge in Tenbury is quite in the same league but we understand it's one of only 2x SAM's which are bridges with curves in them in the UK].</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The points on the rough drawing refer to: </b></span></div><blockquote style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. <b>Burford Hospital</b>. Pulling out of this blind corner can often mean risking an accident or worse at peak times with vehicles speeding towards the hospital largely out of view. Hence adding a roundabout here and a [raised] relief rd across the fields to a new bridge could serve a number of purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">2. <b>The Old Teme Bridge</b>. This could be 'retired' and actively help increase the town's tourism draw if a new bridge and relief rd were put in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. <b>The Crow Hotel Turning</b>. All traffic that passes over the present Teme bridge passes this way around the tight corner - often creating jams with longer HGVs. If the relief rd were plumbed-into the B4204 that comes into the back of the town from Rochford then it could [<i>option A</i>] be diverted to this junction where minor works and a traffic light system could enable a suitable traffic flow. The idea illustrated above using traffic lights may actually allow a wider swing/turning circle for HGV's than the present two way corner at the Crow Hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alternatively [<i>option B</i>], the traffic could initially come onto the B4204 and then via a new relied rd to the south join up to the Bromyard Rd near the 'S bends' near the business park. With the addition of minor works and a new mini roundabout at the junction of the Bromyard Rd this would take away from the town centre the mainstay of HGV traffic. On the theme of tourist attraction, Teme St could then potentially be semi-pedestrianised too [while still allowing access to the Cattle Market etc] - thus creating an airy and attractive public realm space or more overt 'tourist zone'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. <b>A New More Accessible Teme Bridge</b>. This could be in one of various modern formats - cantilever etc or strictly just governed by cost and utilitarian needs. </span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Some Videos For Your Consideration:</b></span><br />
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<b>BBC Whistleblowers: Supermarkets </b></div><br />
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Channel 4: Supermarket Secrets</b></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/68hapDEQEj0" width="425"></iframe></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>The End of Suburbia [Documentary Film]</b></span><br />
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<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Story of Stuff</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Transition Movement</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2011-uk"><img alt="Transition Conference 2011" border="0" src="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u7/tn_conf_468x60.jpg" title="Transition Conference 2011" /></a> </div><br />
<b style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A New Town Square</span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr L, Burford, Tenbury</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr L suggests a combination of new Town Square with central monument, space for market stalls, training allotments for local schools, parking and a new orchard.</span></span></blockquote><br />
<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">New Central Plaza Celebrating Tenbury's History</span></b></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms P, Burford Suggests a Central Plaza area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Key to above concept.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><blockquote> <span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ms P from Burford says that the Tenbury has become very traffic orientated with no central focal point and increasingly busy routes through the town centre. The redevelopment of the former old cattle market provides a key focal area to encourage this and make the most of the River Teme and it's historic bridge.</span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A central walkway through the area linking all the components and river wlakway/plaza containing seating areas, uplighting and architectural plants would provide a mixture of hard and soft landscaping highlighting and creating key focal points within the site. Planting could compromise of raised timber planters containing Phormiums, Pampas Grass and other architectural species such as Yucca's and Stipa species [grasses].</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Low lighting could be used to highlight key paths with surfacing compromising a mixture of slab paving, timber and gravel creating unique character to the the courtyards and site identity. </span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within the centre either a central water feature or monument/sculpture or art piece could be incorporated to reflect Tenbury's history or the site's former uses.</span></div><div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The site could almost become a gateway leading the tourist to some of the highlights and history of Tenbury such as the Pump Rooms, Regal Theatre and the Butter Market.</span></span></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6142805769945842853.post-2662832276855649652011-03-02T21:32:00.000+00:002011-03-04T22:55:11.618+00:00Final Tenbury Futures Community Feedback Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Based on a total of 289 Respondents.<br />
Including the final 49 additional returns - final week of February 2011:</span></b><br />
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Boraston, Kyrewood, Oldwood, St Michaels, Stoke Bliss, Rochford, Bickley, Nash, Leysters, Eardiston, Little Hereford, Brimfield, Hanley Broadheath, Clifton-upon Teme, Upper Sapey, Clee Hill and Ludlow.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Additional to the individual graphs we will also be giving an overview of where ALL respondents are based - be it Tenbury or surrounding settlements or visitors to the town etc.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Tenbury Futures Team</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3