I HAVE just been passed an article about another “village” being besieged by a proposed Tesco development.
It is Cheddar, in the Mendips, with a population of 5,500. Like Little Lever, it already has a Tesco Express and another supermarket, plus the usual spattering of small shops.
Also, like Little Lever, they have been promised jobs and that among the 150 created, 50 will be for the existing Tesco Express in the village.
I wonder just how many of the remaining jobs will be filled by the staff who will lose their jobs when the smaller shops in the village start closing because they cannot compete with Tesco’s aggressive pricing policies. I can only hope that the people of Little Lever wake up to just how much damage to the village life and the roads of our estates the Tesco development will cause.
Mr J O’Connor Bolton
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