tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361164100274855187.post604857229128908235..comments2024-03-02T10:10:38.629+00:00Comments on Birmingham Central: Every little helps people power stop Moseley Tesco ... for nowSimon Feltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03838092423309566519noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361164100274855187.post-35141853247917023612011-03-15T15:36:30.296+00:002011-03-15T15:36:30.296+00:00Thank God this development has been approved.
Fac...Thank God this development has been approved.<br /><br />Fact - Moseley 'Village' is not a village. It is a suburb of a major conurbation. <br /><br />Fact - Moseley during the day is a dying area. ANYTHING which brings people into the area is therefore of benefit.<br /><br />Fact - Many of the local shopkeepers, of which I am one, are crying out for more retail in the area. Currently, there is little, or no passing trade to speak of.<br /><br />It amazes me that the archaic moseley forum should so vehemently oppose this development. The site has stood empty for many years now attracting local drunks, drug users and other unsavouries. The best Moseley forum did was to waste public money planting runner beans around the site to, 'pretty it up.'<br /><br />Lets face facts, If this were a Waitrose or M & S retail unit, there would have been little, if any, opposition to the development. The main problem here is Tesco's involvement, and a few peoples snobbery attempting to evoke the masses.<br /><br />Well get over yourselves! We are in a time of major economic crisis and no other major retailer is interested in the site. Forget your notions of a gated parkway to Oxford Road, or large and thriving community centre. If this development had not gone ahead, the only use it may have seen would have been a sad decline into a derelict skatepark over the coming years. <br /><br />So think on, and campaign in areas where you can make a difference. Like a light in the alleyway linking St Marys Row to the public car park. Where a 60 year old woman was mugged and badly beaten two weeks ago. <br /><br />Do something about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361164100274855187.post-87210369513437648062011-02-25T12:33:51.808+00:002011-02-25T12:33:51.808+00:00Regardless of whether it's Tesco or not, it...Regardless of whether it's Tesco or not, it's sad that any development which could benefit local residents should have to be refused because of fears over traffic. Surely we're not still stuck in such a stone-age mentality that the car is the only way to get around? Why didn't the planning application include proposals to improve public transport?<br /><br />Now, if Tesco had offered to fund the building of a Metro extension from New Street down the Moseley Road, that'd be something worth considering...Mark Rowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065798700890744332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361164100274855187.post-70641609924539171922011-02-25T00:28:12.178+00:002011-02-25T00:28:12.178+00:00The so called parking survey is flawed new survey ...The so called parking survey is flawed new survey conducted by the applicant’s transportation consultants who conducted around the store on a Friday between the hours of 10am and 2pm and claims that was plenty of on street parking within 300m of the site.<br /><br />This is flawed as it was done well before the rush hour started when the area is jammed packed with traffic and local residents had not yet return from work to park outside their own homes and the schools were not yet out. <br /><br />If anything the lunch period must be the quietest time they could have picked to carry out the so called survey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com