Improved plans for Walton supermarket (From Gazette)

Just what is needed and it will look great also bringing more people to the area.

spot on.

The best improvement plan would be not to build another bloody Tesco anywhere.

cavillas wrote:
Just what is needed and it will look great also bringing more people to the area.

Surely if it is built on half the Martello camp there will be less people coming into the area. Then they will built houses on the rest of the camp and there will be even less people coming into the area.
Then there is the proposed Sainsbury's supermarket at the Mere to come.

Sometimes, building a "supermarket" destroys small towns/villages, yes the job creation is good, but the actual shops in town suffer as a result....Look at Clacton, full of 99p and charity shops, where has all the "high end" branded shops gone..Maybe the powers to be should concentrate on improving the town, making it easier for small businesses which are struggling at the moment...instead of filling up tesco's ceo with more money/profit...

happyinjaywick wrote:

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Sometimes, building a "supermarket" destroys small towns/villages, yes the job creation is good, but the actual shops in town suffer as a result....Look at Clacton, full of 99p and charity shops, where has all the "high end" branded shops gone..Maybe the powers to be should concentrate on improving the town, making it easier for small businesses which are struggling at the moment...instead of filling up tesco's ceo with more money/profit...

Sorry CRV,
I cannot agree with you on this.
Clacton had a town centre Tescos BEFORE the 99p shops,
and before most of the charity cr@p shops.
Clacton had Morissons before Lidles, or before tesco moved out into green space/open lands oposite a huge holiday camp.
Clacton until last year or so had a large intown Co-op store, but as history tells us, that failed, but failed before 99% of the charity shops, or 99p shop will ever do.
Just look at the visitor numbers going through the tills at the 99p store,
outnumbering clactons "traditional" thrift store Thingamebobs 10 to 1.
Clacton DOES have high end shops,
in the open environment, where you CAN park by the hundreds,
in waterglades, where they have been since I can remember.
Shoppers like to be able to park & shop,
our town centre has lost faith in its self due to its hate of cars!
You can either re route the buses out of town centre, roof it over and turn it into a "welcoming" town centre,
or leave it as it is and watch in slow motion its self destruction.
To see growth you need visiting shoppers.
But first you need to build a huge multi story car park to enable the shoppers with £££`s in there pockets to be "welcomed" into our failing town centre!
Get customers in, and better shops will flock back in,
then leave the weekly shopping buyers to go to store of choice, either Lidles. morissons X 2, or tescos.

Fair point, perhaps Clacton was not the best example, although the super market version of tesco's do cover a much wider range of products,jeans, phones, but see your view, ive been clacton for a long time, and just watching it "self destruct", whilst powers to be, papers over the cracks, drives me mad...I chat to a couple of business owners in Clacton town, they are saying very similar to your comment, especially about the car phobia, but what will actually attract more paying visitors in...?

By the way, not knocking the 99p shop, i get me cheap shampoo there, lol