CPO - Public Inquiry daily summaries

[Vince, Charlie and Sam]

Certainly Tescos will pull in bigger numbers than Dreamland. There is no doubt about that at all

Totally irrelevant. Any money spent at Tesco will simply be money which was previously spent at other local retail outlets, it will not be money brought into Thanet from elsewhere. If anything, it will cause unemployment and deprivation to increase as these smaller shops go out of business, and I will remind you that Margate already has the highest percentage of empty shops in the country- over a third of shops are vacant.

How on earth anybody so economically illiterate and unintelligent could have risen to become General Manager of Dreamland is quite beyond me.

[Jim Douglas Jr.]

It's not what you know, it's who you bl@w.
Figuratively, of course.

[barcrest]

Certainly Tescos will pull in bigger numbers than Dreamland. There is no doubt about that at all

Totally irrelevant. Any money spent at Tesco will simply be money which was previously spent at other local retail outlets, it will not be money brought into Thanet from elsewhere. If anything, it will cause unemployment and deprivation to increase as these smaller shops go out of business, and I will remind you that Margate already has the highest percentage of empty shops in the country- over a third of shops are vacant.

To be honest we have a simular amount of empty shops here in walsall, however the tesco redevelopment has actually brought more people into the town. Our old tesco store was scheduled to be come a co-op store and primark but these plans appear to have stalled. Tesco would have probably had an effect on HMV, Game, Woolworths or TJ Hughes if we still had them but the pound shops which have replaced them appear unaffected.

[woody]

has the report from the Planning Inspector appeared yet?

[timj]

as above: what's happening?

[Nick]

We are still waiting for the decision. We are advised that it will be "July/August".

[timj]

thanks Nick