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WHITBY'S SUPERMARKET VERDICT (5.30pm): Sainsbury's and Co-op get the green light

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Published Date: 29 July 2010
By Jon Stokoe
SAINSBURY'S will build a new supermarket on the outskirts of Whitby after a controversial meeting at Whitby Community College this afternoon.
And the Co-op has also been granted approval for its expansion plans in the town centre.

Sainsbury's has got the go-ahead for a store of 30,000 sq ft net sales (2,787 sq m) but it has to adhere to 26 different conditions.

More than 300 people a
ttended the four-and-a-half hour meeting, as well as TV crews, to hear the verdict of Scarborough Borough Council's planning and development committee.

After the deliberations and adjournment, the final decision was met with jubilation by many in the packed hall.

The planners' move was not without controversy as last week, Whitby Town councillors recommended refusal of both the Sainsbury and Tesco sites.

Early in the meeting, Sainsbury's surprised everyone by announcing plans for a petrol station - which would be based at an alternative site in the town.

Dorothy Clegg, chairing the meeting, did well to keep control as tensions were running high and threatened to call a halt to the meeting if people did not calm down.

* More details online tomorrow as well reaction and full story with details of Sainsbury's planning conditions and why the Tesco application was turned down in Tuesday's Whitby Gazette.

* What do you think? Comment on this story below or write to the editor. Alternatively, email: editorial@whitbygazette.co.uk or have your say on our discussion board here at our Whitby Gazette Readers group on Facebook.





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whitbyite,

east side 29/07/2010 18:02:58
hurray, well done planning. for once you have listened to the people of whitby. we welcome you sainsburys.
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fairplayforwhitby,

east side 29/07/2010 18:12:40
Miracles do happen, and what a snub for SBC's planning officer. At lest the people of Whitby have made themselves heard loud enough to change a decision. Well done to the councillors who changed the rules and didn't follow the usual line of agreeing with the Planning Officer who in this case showed a definite bias towards Tesco despite recommending refusal.
Keep Whitby's green spaces green. Well done to everyone who fought for this decision.
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wendy simpson ,

29/07/2010 18:20:04
what a total surprise having thought that both sainsburys and tescos would get rejected sainsburys has been given the green light at long last something that is good and worth while is to be opened in whitby i congratulate sainsburys on their success and will welcome them to the town for once majority of the community have got what they wanted this is totally bizarre for whitby but obviously someone saw the light
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Andi.,

Whitby 29/07/2010 19:09:14
There's something strange about comment 2 saying "the Planning Officer who in this case showed a definite bias towards Tesco despite recommending refusal".

It's like saying "Father Christmas, showed that he didn't exist by climbing down the chimney and getting soot all over the carpet."
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Paul the octopus,

tank 29/07/2010 20:18:32
There is no mention of Tesco being rejected in the stort. poor.
Also sainsbury's mooted plans for a petrol station (on green land - wonder if people will protest like they did about Tesco) in previous gazette stories.

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Mrs Coulman,

Whitby 29/07/2010 20:32:38
As a wife of an SPC UK worker i am rather annoyed that because of this decision we are going to have to put our home on the market and leave Whitby for good. Its only three and a half years since we relocated here from the South Wales valleys to be nearer to our family in our home town of Hull. It's alright people saying SPC UK are going to move to their other site but this is about 250 miles away and most of the workers are Whitby born and bred and have their families here.
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Rodney Blemish,

WHITBY 29/07/2010 21:03:54
Why oh why have they given the go ahead to the Coop ? The most ill sited supermarket ever, how are they going to pay for the extension ? Ahh yes with the rip off price's they charge for everything. You cannot get into town in the summer anyway for traffic so how on earth are you going to get to a supermarket to shop because of where it is ?. But then again the councillers would have had to allow it just so it didnt show bias against the other two. Bring your prices down Coop and then i might go to the effort to shop with you. Then again theyve always had the monopoly of this town, just like the petrol stations, bring on the competition.
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missieren,

30/07/2010 00:05:41
Well what can i say... Again the so called councilors or Scarborough and Whitby have not listened to the people of this town...As this very gazette websites poll said 47% of Whitby wanted either a Tesco OR a Sainsburys.. It was not a majority!! And yet again as with the Co-op extension the councilors think that Whitby people are well paid enough to afford these over priced supermarkets ( Just look at how many Whitby people are on a minimum wage, thank god for Lidl, or are we looking after the holiday makers and the second home owners!!As for the SPC site... it was cut and dry.. thank god my husband got out from that company.. as that's what they wanted all along and that why he left.. Well all i can say is i hope that SBC have another piece of land that they plan to build affordable housing on as yes we need it, god knows i know but i hope that this time they don't intend in taking away a much loved children s play park to build it!!!
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Cuddy,

Whitby 30/07/2010 10:26:48
ANYTHING could happen now

Tesco could appeal, and if they do it would drag on for possibly another year, and at the end of it they would still probably be refused permission because the new government are extremely anti building on green land, and in the meantime Sainsburys could be half built.

Will the Co-op go ahead with their approved extention knowing they are going to have a major competitor. ?

With the planning permission granted along with permission for a cafeteria the Co op site is now worth a lot of money, will the Co op be tempted to sell. ?

You can bet your bottom dollar that the Co op will now be approached by other retailers, probably including Tesco.

Another point worth remembering is that the planning officers based their recomendations of refusal for Tesco and Sainsburys on real evidence, the retail survey did after all conclude that either development will have an adverse effect on town centre shops.

Personaly I am happy with the outcome, but I hope we dont lose the butcher, the baker, the green grocer and the chemist.
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fairplayforwhitby,

EAST SIDE 30/07/2010 16:07:57
re#8 maybe, but there was no check on how many times a person oculd vote on the gazette's website, or where they came from. At least the one held by WTC was checked that those voting actually lived here and that was a resounding no to tesco wherever it might have been built!
re #4 - if you've read the repot you will see that it's all in the wording, Stakesby is better served with buses - it isn't, It's a steep climb to the porposed Sainsbury's, it's equally as steep from teh town to Stakesby. In my mind that shows bias towards TEsco just in case the planning committee were torn between the two supermarkets, the impression was that Tesco would be better.
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