Nowhere to hide!

The supermarket sites appear to have been deliberately located on high ground to maximize visual impact – the Sainsbury's store would be over 13m high, or equivalent to a 5 storey building.  It is felt that the visual impact alone would be unacceptable – there would not be many places in the town that you would not be able to see at least one of the stores from, especially at night as they tend to use a lot of outside lighting.  Planned tree lines stop short of the store frontages to ensure high visual impact (Mark Innes).