Braintree: Planners recommend refusal for Sainsbury's plans

9:00am Wednesday 13th March 2013 in News

A computer image of how the Broomhills store will look A computer image of how the Broomhills store will look

Sainsbury's is consulting a top lawyer after planners recommended its plans for a superstore be thrown out.

Town centre shops will suffer if the retailer is allowed to redevelop the Broomhills Industrial Estate store, off Rayne Road, Braintree, argue Braintree Council planning officers.

They feared it could force the closure of Morrisons - which hopes to expand its George Yard store - and said Sainsbury’s had not looked at alternative sites in Braintree and Halstead.

Councillors on the planning committee are due to discuss the plans on Tuesday.

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philip jinman says...
9:54am Wed 13 Mar 13

Sainsbury's say BDC have got errors in their planning report
Not surprised BDC are so incompetent
No planning permission to extend Morrison Witham
Why not get Tesco to sell one of their Braintree stores to foster competition
and lose the title of a Tesco Town
The government have done it to airports and banks
Their must be more to this than meets the eyes
Environmental gains must have been offered to BDC by Tesco to keep the virtual monopoly of the three tesco's
BDC is not transparent about the costs Tesco's have presented to the council over their pub application we the residents should know
BDC still scared of Tesco, central government are concerned about pubs becoming Tesco stores

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keith_l says...
3:18pm Wed 13 Mar 13

Of course it will get turned down. It has not been submitted by Tesco.

Tesco got planning permission to take 10 spaces out of the Grove car park (Witham) to build a car wash less than a quarter of a mile from an existing one, which will suffer a big loss in its business and probably lose jobs. You cna't find a space in the Grove on a Saturday even before they cut the number of spaces.

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Hunter Gatherer says...
4:25pm Wed 13 Mar 13

Tesco District Council in action again.
How much is this debarcle going to cost
tax payers?

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montygirl says...
8:07pm Wed 13 Mar 13

Maybe they should be renamed Tesco district council.Maybe all residents should boycott tesco .Are a variety of supermarkets in chelmsford and colchester but they all still survive.plus already a sainsbury in braintree anyway right near Morrison so how does that not currently affect business. I would rather drive to sainsbury boreham than shop in tesco and get online for stuff from asda .hopefully the fact 2 supermarkets are now complaining will strengthen Morrison's witham case.will go to court and BDC will fight it using the public purse !

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macutmore says...
2:26pm Tue 19 Mar 13

So who or what is going to invest &/or develop the decapitated Broomhills Industrial Estate? Who's going to buy the land from Sainsbury's? If it eventually ends up having houses built on it, fair enough. But I would bite Sainsbury's hand off in the current climate. Investment package of half a Million pounds for the town centre, creation of 400 jobs. This has to be the easiest decision on the face of the earth.

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