Supermarket contract for airfield plan scrapped (From Daily Echo)
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Supermarket contract for airfield plan scrapped
7:14am Wednesday 5th November 2008 in
Campaigners fighting plans for a giant Tesco site in Hampshire are celebrating today after the scheme was ditched.
The deveoloper of Andover Airfield developer Goodman has announced that it has terminated its contract with the supermarket firm for the airfield site.
The ‘Megashed’ project, which would have brought in £120 million of investment and more than 1,000 jobs, was fiercely opposed.
Campaigners were anxious about the impact the huge building would have on its area and the increase in the number of lorries.
Another faction was in support – those particularly anxious to attract jobs in a time of looming recession.
A spokesman for Goodman said: "This decision further demonstrates Goodman's commitment to the routing agreement and restrictions which are considered necessary by Test Valley Borough Council to protect local roads.
"We are absolutely committed to delivering a high quality business park on our site and trust that the council will soon be able to grant a planning permission - a prerequisite to enable us to market the site and bring forward a development which has been waiting to happen for the last 20 years.
"Tesco, or any other prospective tenant that seeks to come to our site, will still have the opportunity to take up occupation if they are willing to comply with the planning conditions and legally binding section 106 agreement linked to a planning consent."
Comments(13)
Big Boy
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8:19am Wed 5 Nov 08
Bartonian
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9:15am Wed 5 Nov 08
"Every little helps!"
Ted Rogers
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9:18am Wed 5 Nov 08
Big Boy wrote:That's the purpose of the 106 agreement.
Sounds like the developer will have to upgrade the access on his own. It would appear that the council can't be arsed.
Andy Locks Heath
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9:51am Wed 5 Nov 08
yasinfarr
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10:02am Wed 5 Nov 08
birdman
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10:38am Wed 5 Nov 08
Georgem
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10:54am Wed 5 Nov 08
yasinfarr wrote:You mean they expect a certain degree of literacy and everything? Shocking!
even when it is build still wont be able to get the job as the aplications are realy studid. more lickly to get job as a pilot than retail
security word: land-doze
stay local
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11:03am Wed 5 Nov 08
Bartonian
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11:55am Wed 5 Nov 08
Andy Locks Heath wrote:Good on the Nimby groups. It stops yet another part of the country being buried under a sea of retail sheds. As manufacturing has gine to the dogs, that is all we are - just nothing but retail sheds. Do school leavers want to go and work for Tesco when they really want to be on reality TV shows? As the government are trying their best being anti-family, it's no good suggesting that it is hitting hard-working families, as politicians always like to argue.
We should all play "Guess the name of the Nimby group". How about "Selfish Elderly residents with time to shop during the week against working families and young school leavers hoping to find a job" or just the sameoldtwats for short.
jobsforeastleigh
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12:40pm Wed 5 Nov 08
yasinfarr wrote:Or they could use the old railway engineering works. We need some works in Eastleigh.
even when it is build still wont be able to get the job as the aplications are realy studid. more lickly to get job as a pilot than retail
Andy Locks Heath
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2:18pm Wed 5 Nov 08
Bartonian
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2:27pm Wed 5 Nov 08
Andy Locks Heath wrote:I said country, not countryside.
I'd hardly call Andover Aerodrome the countryside Bartonian. It is already tarmacced and shedded.
Kate, Andover
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8:51am Thu 6 Nov 08
I'm on the fence with this one - my other half is in the building trade and would generate some good work for him and other colleagues for the next couple of years (especially through these tough times). And it's
not just a Tesco store (or would have been), it's a depot and hotels, other factory/office outlets, which I think would be good for the area.
What I don't agree with is the extra traffic on the A303 - that needs to be sorted before any building can start.
I live on the other side of Andover to where this is situated so I don't think I'll be too badly affected by it but anything that brings employment to local people is a good thing. I just hope it's not going to be full of immigrantsor standing half-empty as nobody wants to buy/lease the area.
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