Invitations to comment on 'clean slate' development plan.
Every aspect of the old plan, which included 600 flats, 6,000sqm megastore and a bridge over the A3, has been scrapped ahead of the first of its working group meetings today.
It has invited everyone who made a public comment on the old plan to be part of the working group, whose number includes members of Tolworth Residents Against Over-development (Trod).
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This sounds like disaster for the area as Tesco will happily sit on this land forever and talk to any number of well meaning folks until they achieve exactly what they want,thats why they are one of the most successful companies in the world.
The Broadway will stagnate as few new shops will open with the uncertainty of the site hanging over the area for the next 10/15 years.
RBK must negotiate with Tesco for a site that can be developed to satisfy every party and result in planning gain for the Borough an impasse is in no ones interest,sadly this is unlikely to happen and Tolworth will miss out on a chance to regenerate.
I think i moved back to Conservative Pimlico just in time.
So thats it then, just let Tesco steamroller over all planning laws & overwhelming local opposition? leaving the locals to suffer from increased traffic pollution and congestion?
With thinking like that, the tories in pimlico are welcome to you.
The land was sold to tesco with the explicit planning guidance that it was not suited to retail development.
If they fail for a third time, they will never get permission, and rightly so. Once this happens, the future of the broadway is as secure as it will ever be.
Tesco can then sit on their land for as long as they like - it will never be a hypermarket as they wish.
Ah the luddites are alive and well in Tolworth
"The land was sold to tesco with the explicit planning guidance that it was not suited to retail development"
That says it all really. Why the hell did they sell it to Tesco then.
I think the question should be why the hell did Tesco buy it then?
My guess? They must have thought that at some stage they could trample over planning guidelines and develop a hypermarket there anyway.
You can't stop somebody from buying any site really, all you can do is reiterate restrictions on its use at point of sale. Buyer beware,etc. Tesco's fault and problem if you ask me.
Much better to use it for Industrial development then?
The variety of shops in Tolworth is already in decline, only recently we saw the closure of the local hardware shop and now the only pub in Tolworth has closed and will be turned into flats so I cannot see Tesco being the cause.
The real issue with The Broadway is the central reservation and the fact that it looks nothing like a high street. Should we not be exploring alternative solutions to routing the traffic through th eBroadway so that it beomes more pedestrian friendly, we may then see an increase in local trade and traders.
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