Chamber Chatter
Supermarket Objections
Our response submitted to Wiltshire Council in respect of both planning applications was as follows:
The Malmesbury Chamber of Commerce has carried out careful, and detailed, consultation with our members regarding the above applications. We set out here our response.
In respect of both applications we formally object.
Our reasons are:
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Malmesbury for Portas 'pilot' status
Following the Mary Portas’s report on Britain’s High Streets, the Department for Communities and Local Government are looking for 12 ‘pilot’ towns to test the ideas contained within the report. We believe that Malmesbury should apply for ‘pilot’ status. This is not purely because of the threats of the supermarkets, although the findings should assist the town centre in combating any impact should they gain approval, but because the town centre needs a vision and plan for the future – to make it sustainable, vibrant and successful.
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