It's all change on the superstore front! Last night the council announced that the special meeting to consider Tesco's planning application on 5 November was cancelled without an explanation given. This was followed up today with the Evening Post suggesting that Bristol City has now struck a deal with rivals Sainsbury's. It wants to relocate it's Winterstoke Road store to Ashton Gate. Struth what a 24 hours! So did $teve Lansdown know that the Tesco proposal was likely to fail because the area already has enough supermarkets?
So for the immediate future its good news that the Tesco proposal looks to be dead and buried. But we will have to wait to see what Sainsbury's want with the site. It looks likely that any planning proposal from Sainsbury's won't materialise until spring next year.
You can read the full story on the
Evening Post website.
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The existing planning application for the foodstore has NOT been withdrawn. Nor has any agreement been concluded with Sainsburys according to EP report. All we are told is that BCFC are in discussion with Sainsburys. So what one might ask.
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