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GREENS URGE HARROGATE TO KEEP TOWN FREE OF TESCOPOLY LAST POSTCODE ON UK MAINLAND NOT TO HAVE A TESCOS UNDER THREAT FROM SUPERMARKET GIANT
Tesco has applied to Harrogate Council for permission to build a 108,300 sq ft superstore with 530 parking spaces and a recycling centre on 8.6 acres at the junction of Ripon Road and Skipton Road.Harrogate Council intends to hold a special meeting of its planning committee on November 27 to consider Tesco's application.
Green Party Principal Speaker Derek Wall has thrown his weight behind the campaign to keep Tesco's out of Harrogate. He said: "Harrogate is a special part of Britain! It is one of only four places in the UK not to have been colonised by Tescos - the others are the Shetlands, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides. Tescopoly is destroying the diversity of our once beautiful high streets and locking us into unsustainable patterns of consumption. Local shops, owned and run by local people are vital to an economy that works for people and the environment. "I would urge people in Harrogate to keep their town free from Tescopoly. "The last fifty years have seen major changes in the way that people buy their food. People used to shop in food markets or specialist food shops, such as greengrocers, butchers and fishmongers. Now, more than 80 per cent of our grocery market goes to supermarkets - turning us into clone town Britain. "The contribution of the UK food chain to climate change is large - one study estimates that it could account for more than one fifth of total UK greenhouse gas emissions." ENDS Green Party Press Office020 7561 0282http://www.greenparty.org.uk Published and promoted by Jim Killock for the Green Party, both at1a Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ.
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2 comments:
"LAST POSTCODE ON UK MAINLAND NOT TO HAVE A TESCOS" - REALLY!
The last time I looked there were something like 35million postcodes in the UK each representing on average around 50 unique addresses. So do we literally have a Tescos on every street corner? - No.
Perhaps you really meant to say "Postal Area". There are only 124 of these and they are identified by the first one or two characters in the Postcode. HG meaning Harrogate is one.
Or Perhaps you meant Postal District? There are 3047 of these - they are the bit of the postcode before the space.
Do let me know. Or did you just copy it from somewhere else? Without question.
Whoops, even i make mistakes. I meant to say 35 million addresses with a postcode representing on average 50 unique adresses.
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