Telford Shopping Centre bosses lose Asda legal challenge

The owners of Telford Shopping Centre today lost their legal challenge to plans for a new ASDA superstore that they claim will take the retailer - and shoppers - out of the centre.

Telford Trustee No. 1 Ltd and Telford Trustee No. 2 Ltd, who own the Shopping Centre with the current ASDA as its foodstore "anchor" had challenged plans to plans to build the new, larger store on the site of Telford & Wrekin Council's Civic Offices, the other side of a busy main road from the centre.

But today, Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Richards backed the Council's decision to grant planning permission for the superstore, and ruled that its reasons for its decision had been adequate.