To the Editors of @ SHERINGHAM
Elizabeth Harvey puts neatly in a nutshell the best argument I have yet seen for the Tesco
store, but I would like, with respect, to make a few points please in reply. Opinions both
for and against by "locals" and "newcomers" alike. It is not a matter
of all on one side, or the other. Some "newcomers" knew Sheringham when it still
had the International, long before Safeway was built. Those from other parts of the
country have personal experience of the downside of big supermarket. Developments and do
not want them repeated irreversibly in this town, which is Relatively small, even though
they themselves have added to the population.
Why should these "newcomers" seek to deprive their neighbours, AND ALSO
THEMSELVES, of bulk buying convenience or saving on petrol? At least give them credit for
decency and common sense.
Why should residents who already find it "asking to much" to use our town shops
bother to do so anyway if they can get everything they want in a huge one-stop store, not
only food but non-food products- which is Tesco's stated future policy? Why does Tesco's
admit to the Council, but not the people of Sheringham, that they will close down other
shops in town?
As Mr Oldstock in frank, if unwise, language in the same issue, a "balance"
exists between our local "cluster of diverse shops" and three already existing
supermarkets not very far away. Not perfect, but then nothing is perfect in life. To
distort this arrangement on the huge scale demanded by Tesco goes to far.
Tesco supporters ignore several obvious "negatives" - traffic problems, for
example. If the council had to reject the Budgens car-park plan because of highway
objections, what about Tesco's horrendous vehicles access facing Cremer's Drift? I hope
people living together in Sheringham can resolve their disagreement over this by reference
to Tesco's ACTUAL plans and past record, rather than by anger and blind hatred.
Yours sincerely, Marianna Robinson, Holway Rd, Sheringham |
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| I wholeheartedly agree with Elizabeth Harvery (Issue 19) that newcomers should not
tell Shannocks what is best for Sheringham. But unlike M/s Harvey I am not content
to 'lie back and think of England', while the most predatory type of newcomer
(Tesco) run amok and ruin another beautiful town (Sheringham). Many people
(Shannocks and newcomers) recognise the need for a larger FOOD only supermarket in
Sheringham, so Tesco have there the basis for positive negotiations to become that
provider. They do not need to take their present confrontational, overbearing
approach to the problem. C. Nickerson, Sheringham |
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