Legal battle starts over Padiham Tesco store (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)

I can't think of one town centre business that would be worth saving.
I get the impression that the main opponents are the businesses in Padiham who have taken advantage of local people for so many years.
Try shopping in Padiham on a Saturday afternoon or on a Tuesday. The place is closed!
Traffic problems would be no greater than they were when Main Gas etc were on the site with HGV and staff coming and going all day.
Let's have this store to benifit the people.

The retailers in Padiham should be ashamed of themselves!! They want to keep Tesco away, a store which would really benefit the town for their own purely selfish reasons. For too long these retailers have offered little choice at inflated prices because there wasn't a cheap alternative. People in Padiham have to come all the way into Burnley to do their main shop which for many can mean lugging it all back on the bus or paying an arm and a leg for a taxi. Why shouldn't Padiham folk be able to shop in Padiham?

people vote with there feet. if they like it they will go, if they don't, they won't. there are plenty of examples of little shops doing well, next to big supermarkets. value the customer, make your shops nicer to be in. at the moment there are quite a few scruffy shops in padiham. be unique like whalley or clitheroe or howarth.

Living in Padiham I go all the way to Burnley to shop, I do not use the town centre shops at all, and neither I presume do a lot of other people. I would use the new Tesco store however so the town centre shops are not losing out as they claim.

Tesco claim "much needed retail support" A multiple of this size supports no-one only itself. Wake up Padiham residents look around you at high streets throughout North, they are nothing but clones full of Charity shops, others peddling cheap tat and worse MANY MORE boarded up just to become targets for vandals, dossers and drop outs. Do you want to see the main street through Padiham looking like this?? The so called 150 jobs created won't be proper ones simply time sharing, part-timers and all paid within the lowest range possible. It may sound good on paper and in people's wishes - In reality dreams turn into nightmares where supermarket conglomerates are concerned in respect of locals. All they want is your cash not your aspirations. Burnley a prime example, there isn't a major road through that is not severely affected by Supermarkets e.g Colne Rd Lidl and then Sainsburys, Active Way Sainsbury, Asda, Aldi then Netto. All create massive traffic delays because traffic lights have been installed to accommodate these businesses. Try moving through Burnley between 13:00 & 17:00hrs Fridays, Saturdays 09:30 to 16:30hrs (make sure your well stocked with petrol) When you shop at these places who will you ask perhaps "How do you cook this fish/meat or Those potatoes last week weren't good have you anything different" You'll soon find out anonymous plastic trays where the food (in respect of the meat/fish/chicken) has been pumped up to as much as 7.5% with water, just lift the trays and tilt them.

person++++ wrote:
people vote with there feet. if they like it they will go, if they don't, they won't. there are plenty of examples of little shops doing well, next to big supermarkets. value the customer, make your shops nicer to be in. at the moment there are quite a few scruffy shops in padiham. be unique like whalley or clitheroe or howarth.

very well said, there is nothing worse than a shop that looks unloved or smells odd or old. it doesn't have to be supermodern, in fact quite the opposite. if the staff or owner are friendly and knowledgable about thier stock there will usually be a steady trade available, treasuring the customer is an art that, though you may scoff, folk are still willing to pay a little more for.

notchuffed wrote:
Tesco claim "much needed retail support" A multiple of this size supports no-one only itself. Wake up Padiham residents look around you at high streets throughout North, they are nothing but clones full of Charity shops, others peddling cheap tat and worse MANY MORE boarded up just to become targets for vandals, dossers and drop outs. Do you want to see the main street through Padiham looking like this?? The so called 150 jobs created won't be proper ones simply time sharing, part-timers and all paid within the lowest range possible. It may sound good on paper and in people's wishes - In reality dreams turn into nightmares where supermarket conglomerates are concerned in respect of locals. All they want is your cash not your aspirations. Burnley a prime example, there isn't a major road through that is not severely affected by Supermarkets e.g Colne Rd Lidl and then Sainsburys, Active Way Sainsbury, Asda, Aldi then Netto. All create massive traffic delays because traffic lights have been installed to accommodate these businesses. Try moving through Burnley between 13:00 & 17:00hrs Fridays, Saturdays 09:30 to 16:30hrs (make sure your well stocked with petrol) When you shop at these places who will you ask perhaps "How do you cook this fish/meat or Those potatoes last week weren't good have you anything different" You'll soon find out anonymous plastic trays where the food (in respect of the meat/fish/chicken) has been pumped up to as much as 7.5% with water, just lift the trays and tilt them.

couldnt have put it better myself.

The last time I looked Padiham's main street was full of boarded up shops. From the Calder bridge to Victoria Rd the town aint bad but fom the bridge up to the top of town it's a really sad bleak area that would really benefit from this development. Get the footfall back into Padiham with this Tesco store and I'm sure not only will existing shops benefit but some of the empty shops might even get a new lease of life. By the way, does anyone know if there's still a market in Padiham?

does anybody know why there is no further information on this??? Everything seems to have gone quiet, I thought the enquiry was only going to take 4 days????!!!