1,200 oppose Tesco's Whitchurch plans
Campaigners fighting Tesco's plans for a new out-of-town store in Whitchurch have collected about 1,200 names on a petition. Campaigners fighting Tesco's plans for a new out-of-town store in Whitchurch have collected about 1,200 names on a petition. Shoppers have been invited to sign the petition which calls on the retailer to expand its current town centre store at White Lion Meadow and scrap plans to create a new store at Edgeley Park, home of the town's rugby club. Traders' campaign group WH21 launched the petition and today said they hoped people's views wouldn't be ignored.
Campaigners fighting Tesco's plans for a new out-of-town store in Whitchurch have collected about 1,200 names on a petition.
Shoppers have been invited to sign the petition which calls on the retailer to expand its current town centre store at White Lion Meadow and scrap plans to create a new store at Edgeley Park, home of the town's rugby club.
Traders' campaign group WH21 launched the petition and today said they hoped people's views wouldn't be ignored.
Mike Bate, a property developer and founder member of WH21, said the petition was about preventing Whitchurch from becoming a "Tesco town".
He said: "We have been encouraged by a similar campaign in Crosby, Merseyside, where people fought Tesco plans for an out-of-town store and succeeded. I still believe they could expand their current store if they really looked closely at all the options, but I fear they want to create a Tesco town."
