“Good point about the Sea Mills, Lawrence W and Avonmouth areas being neglected. There is the Costco store in avonmouth, which, provided you have a car and want to buy toilet roll in boxes of 80 at a time is good value for money. But if you live in Lawrence W., don't have a car, you are stuffed. You have that Lidl in southmead to aspire too -it may not be as shiny as Tescos, but its closer and better value.

Tesco are probably neglecting those areas as they arent the right customers -either the people who would go Waitrose, or people without enough money to spend much as a Tesco megastore. Whereas the proposed Ashton Gate megastore would serve all the people in the new sprawl, who might just by a 50" plasma TV while driving in for their week's shop. Those are the customers Tesco wants.

Presumably the”

“I think you got the score wrong, its really:

Sensible planning decision based on facts Utd.........1

Reckless and desperate community destroying cheapo supermarket meglomaniacs...........0”

“Some sense brought to the debate, well done Suzanne. Tesco is a fantastic supermarket, will bring healthy competition to Sainsburys and will benefit the silent majority, if the vocal minority can't handle that, then don't shop there.”

“Go West...

Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Lawrence Weston, Sea Mills, Coombe Dingle, Stoke Bishop

A huge area, no major retailer, between Cribbs and Ashton. Why put 2 in Cribbs, and 3 in Ashton, and nothing in between?”

“Personally i can't wait to get my shopping on a Saturday morning at Ashton Gate Tesco and then watch Bristol City play at there brand new stadium.”

“Seems to me these BEHATE people can't stand a bit of competition!”

“correction to correction -

"Now Berate (Bedminster Residents Against Tesco Expansion) has brought things level, following the recent publication of a consultants' report which concluded there is no need for a Tesco supermarket at Ashton Gate"

This initially suggests some involvement from Berate, and people may not have bothered to search as far through the article as you did.
Many thanks”

“Hiya Mikeeee!!
I've just copied and pasted some of Tescos list of Bedminster retailers, which go towards their statistics of the large proportion of shops in their "unaffected" by Tescos catagory.
You can see that very few of them perform a genuine retail activity.
Take all of the non retailers out of Tescos list, and the proportion affected rises to 82% of stores potentially threatened by Tescos -

Zone 4 The Windmill ,Public House
Zone 4 Compton Cars ,Car sales
Zone 4 Michaels Antiques, Antique goods
Zone 4 Three Lions, Public House
Zone 4 Victoria Motorcycles, Motorcycle repairs
Zone 4 Best Takeaway
Zone 4 Lis Chinese ,Takeaway Takeaway
Zone 4 Imports Direct ,Car Sales
Zone 4 McDonalds, Drive Through restaurant
Zone 4 Albert Inn, Public House
Zone 4 CR Bowden Locksmiths
Zone 4 Motor Repairs Motor Repairs
Zone 4 Curry Centre Restaurant and Takeaway
Zone 4 Jolley Colliers Public House
Zone 4 Mezzaluna Café and Bar
Zone 4 Made to Measure Sewing services
Zone 4 Bristol South Funeral Services Funeral services
Zone 4 Victoria Office Equipment Office Equipment
Zone 4 West Kebab Takeaway
Zone 4 Avon Autoglass Windshield repairs and replacement
Zone 4 GRC Electronic Systems Design and manufacture of electronic systems
Zone 4 Paramount Motor sales
Zone 4 G Williams Carpets Carpet and flooring sales
Zone 4 Mayos Beauty salon
Zone 4 AA Nationwide Car repairs

Go to the city council planning website and see the list on Tescos application under "TOWN CENTRE AND RETAIL STATEMENT"

Multi millionaire Steve Lansdown, Multi millionaire Colin Sexstone, cash rich Bristol City Club and Tescos, the worlds largest retailer with a gross income well in excess of some countries on this planet, are so lucky to have you argue for them on their behalf.
Top Man”

“For christ's sake, none of your precious little rich white, middle class community will get shaken up. No-one will go out of business, and you can continue leading your closed minded little life.
Let other people get on with theirs rather than shoving your views down everyone else's throats. The pointless, biased, irrelevant report in question, that goes on at length about the fictional 'Bedminster Town Centre' states there will only be a "moderate" impact to traders. And that's in Bedminster which is 3 miles away from the site where Tesco will be.”

“There are two relevant points to remember here:

The first is that the City Wide Retail Analysis commissioned by BCC in Oct 2007, DID take into account the RSS growth figures for South Bristol, and looked at a scenario where all the expected allocation of extra houses were in place. In 2007, people were spending alot more then, but it still concluded that only by 2026 was there likely to be capacity and need for new supermarkets in South Bristol. The recent independent report on the application (lets remember, its from BCFC not Tesco) found fault with the methodology used to calculate both need and impact of the new store, concluding that BCFC had underestimated the impacts to Bedminster.

The second point is that unless the Labour party get re-elected (which looks unlikely at the monute) the RSS is dead in the water. The tories have a pledge to tear them up.

Funnily, the BCFC application talks about the potential of the new shoppers from new houses to promote the arguement for the store, but somehow forgets to take them into account when calculating traffic impacts.

So the only thing left to justify the store is as enabling development for the new stadium. If we think the independent report is accurate, this will mean providing a massive subsidy to one of the richest men in Bristol at the expense of putting small traders in Bedminster out of business, further degradation of Bedminster centre, and an increase in air pollution.

Trebles all round in Ashton Gate!”