POLL: Have your say on St Austell supermarket plans
COUNCIL chiefs will on Monday decide the fate of two controversial planning applications for supermarkets in St Austell.
Cornwall Council officers have made their recommendations – but we want to know what site you think is best, if any, for St Austell.
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A CGI of how the proposed supermarket at Penwinnick Road, St Austell could look
Register your vote in our poll on this page.
Terrace Hill's application for an as yet unknown store on the site of the current Cornwall Council One Stop Shop, on Penwinnick Road, has the backing of council officers.
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It would see the existing council offices demolished and a supermarket built on the land, with new office accommodation built alongside.
A Cornwall Council planning officer's report states that Penwinnick Road is the preferred site for a supermarket as it is closer to the town centre, giving more opportunity for linked trips.
Broadley Park Properties, however, has rubbished this claim. It has applied to build a Morrisons supermarket on land at Pentewan Road – but their application has been recommended for refusal by the council.
Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee meets on Monday and you can follow the debate live, here at www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
7 Comments
by jimjams2011
Friday, March 15 2013, 4:34PM
“We could do with a Waitrose but Coyte Farm was much better!
It would be great to have a shopping mall!”
by BoingBoing
Friday, March 15 2013, 12:40PM
“This is the same Council Planning people that was given £5million by a developer, to turn one of the most beautiful beaches in the world i.e. Crinnis into something that would have been ideal for Normandy circa 1944 for seven years and the colisseum into what now appears to be a permanent eyesore! The developer should be made to use it or lose it and not drekly, NOW!
fullscott, you have it spot on. Why improve traffic flow in an already congested area when there is money to be made?”
by Natheman
Friday, March 15 2013, 12:28PM
“The Penwinnick road one keeps 400 jobs in the town in the new council offices and another 300 in the new supermarket. (In my view its an absolute no-brainer!)
I think that is as many, if not more, than at Coyte Farm - Most of which would be low paid retail/service jobs.”
by fullscott
Friday, March 15 2013, 7:51AM
“Not much to choose between them - but at least both proposals are for sites that are already tarmacked and built on, thank goodness.
I suppose the councillors prefer the Penwinnick site because they own the land and need the money?
What happened to the one that made most sense - behind the council offices, linking Truro Road with Pentewan Road and fixing that awful roundabout?”
by coxy_ah
Thursday, March 14 2013, 10:46PM
“What happened to Coyte Farm then? That was a much better idea and desperately needed for St Austell.”
by MarjProops
Thursday, March 14 2013, 10:16PM
“Why can't we have both?.... the more the merrier!”
by josdave
Thursday, March 14 2013, 6:58PM
“We already have five supermarkets in St Austell so common sense would say we don't need any more but since when did councillors listen to common sense?”