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Background: Tesco in Milngavie In 1992 a foodstore was built alongside the river in the public park south of the town centre. The development was required to blend with the surrounding conservation area and parkland. It was later taken over and expanded by Tesco. Although the traditional town centre suffered, a fragile balance was achieved. Tesco's first proposal In 2009, Tesco lodged an application for a massive Tesco Extra. This would have more than doubled the sales floor area of the current store - only one Extra in Scotland would have been larger - COMPLETELY DISPROPORTIONATE to the size of our small town. It would have affected our traditional shopping centre » and had serious implications for traffic. Besides its size, the relocation of the store would have further dislocated the two sides of the town centre and detrimentally affected its heritage - its listed buildings, the river and one of the main long distance walkways. WLM's views of the 2009 proposal » Tesco's first application was refused and their appeal dismissed |
WLM AND THE FIRST APPLICATION Archive of original website concerning Tesco's first application. » Over 700 individually written objections were submitted to East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC), mainly from local residents and businesses. There were only 25 letters of support. EDC refused the application in April 2010. A Planning Appeal was lodged by Tesco in July 2010 which was heard at a Hearing and Inquiry in February 2011. WLM acted jointly with Milngavie Community Council (MCC) as a third party opposing the appeal alongside East Dunbartonshire Council. WLM raised about £10,000 from over 220 contributors to employ consultants at the Planning Appeal. WLM-MCC led six witnesses at the Planning Appeal. The WLM-MCC joint statements of case » The Scottish Government Reporter dismissed the appeal on grounds of impact on the setting of a Listed building (Gavin's Mill) and the conservation area The Reporter's decision letter »
Tesco lost little time before letting it be known they would return with a second application»
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