Give residents what they need
Further to your article “Supermarket approved but saga will continue” (January 26), I’ve noted that several Desborough residents have written to regarding the Sainsbury/ Tesco fiasco.
I can understand the annoyance and bewilderment of the townspeople at what, to them, seems a totally illogical decision by the planning committee at Kettering Borough Council, at granting Tesco’s approval to build on the Lawrence Site knowing it has a covenant on it, and the Co-op’s
refusal to remove it, and that it could be three years at least before it can be removed – if then!
Most people in our town actually did want a Sainsbury, did want a petrol station.
Also a multi-use shopping centre, plus local amenities on the Lawrence site.
As the covenant, according to Kettering Borough Council, could take up to three years to remove, we the people who actually live here are now left with nothing once again.
Well done Kettering planning committee. That means we are an expanding town, with more houses to come with less shopping choice and we will still have to go to Market Harborough or Kettering to get our petrol, plus our weekly shopping for the forseeable future!
It’s about time KBC gave the residents of Desborough what they need, and what they want, and stop telling us what they think we want.
Mrs J M Hollinshead
Harborough Road
Desborough
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harbowight
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 08:08 PMA letter and comment that I fully agree with! Wake up Kettering Borough Council and get with the policy of listening to and ACTING in accordance with LOCALISM brought in by the central government in late 2011.
DennyC
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 02:43 PMWell said Mrs Hollinshead. Perhaps if our local politicians were more representative of the town's views we would be getting what we wanted. Instead they seem all too content to stick to the Conservative party line dictated from within KBC. That line is that Desborough's assets can be milked as a cash cow for KBC, the Hawthorns being sold to housing developers and the Lawrences site being sold to Tesco all for millions that Desborough folks will never see. If you want to see the regeneration of Desborough you willl have to go to Kettering to get a look at it - the Market Square, the so called "Quarters" etc are all being funded out of our pockets and with our assets.
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