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Towns hit or under supermarket threat




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Towns hit or under supermarket threat:



  • Hexham, Castle Douglas, St Neots

  • Warminster, Exeter, Dumfries

  • Fakenham, Stafford, Winchester

  • Market Rasen, Dorchester, Barnsley

  • Hertford, Halesowen, Newport

  • Driffield, Newbury, Kendal

  • Withernsea, Guildford, Falkirk

  • Uttoxeter, Devizes, Stourbridge

  • Nantwich, Haywards Heath, Northwich

  • Diss, Maidstone, Lancaster

  • Wantage, Maidenhead, Scarborough

  • Weston-Super-Mare, Woking, Doncaster

  • Wokingham, Hitchin, Cheltenham,

  • Bury St.Edmunds, Burgess Hill,

  • Brigg, Bathgate, Kircaldy

  • Northampton, Torquay, Pontefract

  • Market Harborough, Asford

  • Gainsborough

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    What we are about

     

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    		East Lindsey District Council has invited offers for the cattle market site, and has received dozens of applications from supermarket groups keen to open a giant new store on the five acre site.
       

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    Not only would this mean the loss of the livestock market, the last in Lincolnshire, but because it is too far from the centre it would threaten Louth’s unique collection of small independent shops and its open market.
       

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    		A new supermarket on that site would mean lost jobs, lost skills, empty shops, noisy night-time deliveries and a loss of character. The town centre would die. Property values would sink.
       

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    		Louth IS worth saving. While most of the country’s clone towns are dull replicas of each other, Louth is unique. Where else do the local retail names outnumber the national chains?
       

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    		Louth’s historic connection with local farm produce means low food miles and the ultimate in sustainability and traceability. This is perfect for a Fairtrade town, and good for local jobs too.
       

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    		Architectural and retail heritage go hand in hand. Louth’s wonderful Georgian and Victorian shops would look sad if all they housed were charity shops, mobile phone outlets and burger bars.  
       

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    		Market Rasen has already lost its covered food market since Tesco arrived in 2005 and local food and convenience stores have seen 20-50% falls in sales. If ELDC decides to sell the cattle market site for a giant new  supermarket, exactly the same will happen to Louth.
       

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    		ELDC is following a flawed retail policy based the Farrell Bass Pritchard report 2006. This report is factually inaccurate, illogical and contradictory. It is high time ELDC recognised this and ditched the policy. Now is the time for it to nurture Louth, not undermine it.
       

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    		 Make your voice heard. We need everyone in Louth and the surrounding villages to write to their councillors and their MP to demand that no new supermarkets be built
       

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    		 Use them or lose them. Above all, it is up to us to use the small shops to keep the town healthy and thriving.

     
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