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Lessons to be learnt?
Saltburn-by-the-Sea publishes a monthly self-funding community magazine.
They have had a town centre supermarket for well over 10 years in the same building, most recent being a Somerfield supermarket now to become a Sainsbury’s.
The supermarket building is to be chopped and changed.
For a short period of time Saltburn found themselves supermarket-less.
Are there any lessons to be learnt from their experiences?
Could a Sainsbury’s supermarket only attract traffic to the very outskirts of Whitby town?
Would a Tesco in a more centrally positioned location in Whitby attract more footfall and vehicles once in the town continuing to also park and use shops in the town centre?
Or park in the town centre and then shop at Tesco on their way out of town, especially those visitors from Teesside?
Interestingly chatting to an ex-Whitby Town councillor, he came up with the train of thought that due to the new Tesco’s position it would still be in walking distance of Whitby town centre.
Have any of Whitby’s councillors ever looked at other town’s experiences of having a new Tesco built on their doorstep?
Surely they have contacted other fellow councillors of these towns and discussed how their town has benefitted or otherwise from a new supermarket, obviously.
Surely SBC and WTC have done a little homework for the 13,000 great unwashed.
Surely they have not been acting on a gut feeling, or supermarket preference, or supermarket location.
I can assure you the supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Tesco will have been doing their homework for the past 18 months, perhaps even longer.
Are our councillors telling us that a decision being discussed that could make or possibly break or somewhere in between Whitby Town Centre has not been studied?
Or can our councillors give us their opinion followed by their train of thought?
After all, we vote councillors to think for us.
Or call a parish poll so the great unwashed make the decision.
Tom Brodrick, Whitby
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