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just been reading this in E & E nothing new there then, how much longer are they going to get away with this incompetance and arrogance

Sainsburys
11 Jan 2011

dont forget the greengrocers, 2 bakers,beauty shop, toy shop

11 Jan 2011

@wondering i actually like shopping in the coop and the smaller shops and want to continue doing so, but also agree that we need something bigger nearby to stop the footfall to newton abbot and exeter. its also good for the holiday season as coop cant cope its not big enough, incidently nobody had a good word about somerfield neither. as regards housing we do need new housing but the right type ...

11 Jan 2011

Forget the supermarket and look at the bigger picture and the hidden agenda behind it all. Several years ago Somerfield were refused permission to build where Sainsburys is going, different councillors then and Alan Connett was not in charge

11 Jan 2011

fronterman, I agree with 99% of what you say, Ive felt for a long time this was the agenda.Been saying to my family for a long time that we would at some point in the future become a suburb of Exeter, where I escaped from!!!! Ive also realised over the last few years with the supermarket debate that the plan was to close the town to traffic and therefore close local traders down and become a part ...

8 Jan 2011

I meant we only need one !!!!

8 Jan 2011

If one has pulled out can only be good news

6 Jan 2011

Logistically Newton Abbot and Teignmouth are different to Dawlish. We have one main shopping street, if you pedestrianise where are people going to park to walk down the strand to shop? Dont say leave cars at home because in Dawlish its not everybody that can walk everywhere, where are the disabled going to park and shop. I could understand Brunswick being pedestrianised but not the Strand, will ...

6 Jan 2011

Work starts on the new Sainsburys next week, due to finish in September. Could this coincide with the death of the town centre when the Strand is pedestrianised

Laffin Pig
5 Jan 2011

I agree!!!!! Im not homophobic but we are made out as such if we do not embrace the gay culture wholeheartedly, I had to put my sexuallity on an application form recently and felt affronted by this, and put straight. Also Im fed up with it being rammed down my throat on tv