DEBATE THE FUTURE OF WADEBRIDGE

Monday 11 October 2010

300% increase in local superstore space

Firstly, I find an increase of 300% in the local supply of superstore space to be unnecessary verging on the ridiculous. Secondly, but more importantly, the proposed out of town location is my main objection.  This siting will kill the centre of Wadebridge and the many small shopping villages around Wadebridge as it has done for Bodmin and St. Austell. Further, as an example, in St Kew Highway (where I reside), we have the benefit of a Costcutter, Post Office, hairdresser, pasty shop, surgery, dispensary, and a vehicle workshop, all of which revolve around, and on the site of, a fuel service station.  If the plans proposed go ahead there is no way that the independently owned service station can compete with the loss leader fuel policies of the supermarkets, two of which will be within two miles of St Kew Highway.  Lose the service station and we will lose all the other facilities. Another dead Cornish Village! (Francis Healing).

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