On Wednesday 28th Nov 2007 www.bogofs.org the campaigning group along with council planners and the councilors managed to reject the planning application for a major supermarket in Bristol along the Gloucester Road.
That seems all well and good after eighteen months of campaigning, liaising, lobbying and so on. However, there's an underlying tension that StoreGap on behalf of Sainsbury's will be back with a revised application. Furthermore, they could appeal. I know that there are legal channels and market-based systems but is there any precedent whereby the public can be assured that for the time being they can be assured that the supermarket will not return to hassle and stress-out everyone? The councilors voted 10 to 1 against, the planners rejected four out of five technical details and the public overwhelmingly campaigned against it. Any comments please?
Nick
