In March 2010 a Government planning inspector rejected a  scheme to transform Kendal Rugby Club's Shap Road ground into a supermarket and non-food retail units. Planning Inspector George Baird said in his report that the development would create an additional 180 vehicles an hour in both directions at the Station Road junction at Longpool. Local residents opposed the application.

However, Cheshire-based developers Morbaine - who have a deal with the rugby club to build a new stadium on land adjacent to Oxenholme Road in exchange for the current ground - say they will address the traffic issues and resubmit another application. Please see an article in the Westmorland Gazette, 10th March 2010.

At the end of August 2010 Sainsbury’s announced plans to build a 50,000 sq ft store on the site of Kendal Cricket Club. Following a public consultation on the 3rd and 4th September Sainsbury's will then submit an application to South Lakeland District Council. Please see an article in the Westmorland Gazette, 27th August 2010. However, Kendal Cricket Club is opposed to the move from its Shap Road site.

Residents have set up a blog with information and a link to an online
petition: http://nomoresupermarkets.blogspot.com/. Anyone wanting to get involved can email notosainsbury@gmail.com.

Sainsbury’s in Crosby Village is planning to build a new store more than 3 times bigger than the existing one and villagers feel this will damage the village beyond repair.

In May 2010 Sainsbury's submitted a planning application to Sefton Council for the new 50,000 sq ft store at Moor Lane. The plans include seven retail units which could be used to house shops, restaurants, cafes, bars and takeaways, as well as financial and professional services. Full planning permission is also being sought for Sainsbury’s to change the use and alteration of its existing foodstore.

Villagers have formed a campaign group, ABetterCrosby and set up a  Facebook group. For further information please contact abettercrosby@googlemail.com and an article in the Crosby Herald, 6th May 2010.

A music festival has been organised on Saturday 31st July to support the Better Crosby campaign. Please see http://www.thelaststandfestival.com/ for more details.

Residents in Layton have launched a campaign to halt plans to build a new 10,000 sq ft (1,363 sq m ) Tesco store and 50 car park spaces on the site of the Windmill pub.

The Layton Traders Association organised a public meeting as traders are concerned their businesses could be devastated if the plans go ahead. Please see an article in the Gazette, 7th August 2009. More than 3,500 people signed a petition against the proposal.

In November, Blackpool Council's development control committee voted unanimously to reject the application. Officers recommended the application be turned down as it would be damaging to nearby shops and go against policies aimed at protecting district shopping centres, stating that there was "no overriding need for the Tesco store in this location". For further information please see an article in the Blackpool Gazette, 10th November 2009.

However, in May 2010, Tesco lodged an appeal against the decision. Please see an article in the Blackpool Gazette, 4th June 2010. However, this was subsequently withdrawn.

Tesco submitted a further applications which attracted 337 letters to the council, but planning officers are recommending councillors approve the conversion, the addition of a cash machine and the installation of air conditioning units, when the planning applications go before Blackpool's Development Control Committee on Monday September 6. Please see an article in Blackpool Gazette, 27th August 2010.

In January 2010 Wyre planning committee gave the go ahead for a Tesco Express to be built on the Marsh Mill Village car park on Fleetwood Road North. The chair cast his vote in favour after voting was split 5-5 with two abstentions.

Local residents were outraged at the decision and stormed out of the meeting. Objections centred around possible problems with parking, flooding and noise and the fact that another convenience store was not needed, with four others within a 10-minute walk. Residents had got a petition of 270 signatures opposing the scheme in just 10 minutes.

Planning officers pointed to an over-provision of parking at the site and stated that the committee could not make a decision based on assumptions about what might happen. For further information please see an article in the Blackpool Gazette, 8th January 2010.

In June 2010 residents and shopkeepers launched a campaign to stop Tesco building a store on the site of the Plough Inn pub in Hoylake Road, Moreton.

A petition of 2,496 signatures was handed in to the Council. A planning committee meeting was held on 6th July but Councillors deferred making a decision "to give planning officers time to find further information on some of the issues surrounding the application".  For further information please see an article at the Wirral Globe, 14th June 2010 and an article at Wirral News, 7th July 2010.

The planning officer recommended approval - please read the report here. A site visit took place on 9th August and at a committee meeting on 10th August Councillors voted to approve the plans.

Tesco wants to double the size of its existing store in Douglas by raising the roof height to provide the extra space for a 2,000 sq m mezzanine floor. However, independent businesses have raised concerns, with some fearing town centre businesses could lose so much trade they would be forced to shut. Ramsey commissioners have passed a resolution for the Tesco planning application to be 'called in' by CoMin. For further information please see an article at Manxradio.com, 22nd April 2009 and an article in iomtoday.co.im, 14th August 2009.

The appeal started on 9th February 2010 and lasted 10 days. Please see iomtoday.co.uk, 8th February 2010 and iomtoday.co.uk, 20th February 2010.

In July 2010, the plans were rejected by the Manx Council of Ministers. The Council agreed with an independent planning inspector following a public inquiry and rejected the extension on increased traffic grounds. A copy of the letter to parties explaining the Council of Ministers’ decision, a summary of the inspector’s conclusions, and his full report can all be found on the Isle of Man Government website at www.gov.im/cso/ministers.

Traders in Padiham are opposing plans for a 30,000 square feet Tesco store. There is already a smaller Tesco and a Co-op in Padiham. For further information please see an article in the Citizen, 20th August 2009.

Following Tesco's indication that it intended to submit a planning application in August, Burnley Borough Council brought forward a 'Retail and Business Study' they were intending to do as part of their Local Plan development. 
 
The local traders association, Padiham Town Centre Partnership, has set up a campaign to canvass the support of local residents.They designed a poster which was put in shops throughout the town, and produced a flyer which invited locals to support the objection to the store.

On 4th March 2010, the Development Control committee rejected the plans by 6-2 votes on traffic grounds and on the impact to other traders in the town centre.  For further information please see an article in the Burnley Citizen, 6th March 2010.

However, Tesco has appealed against the decision and a public inquiry will be held in July. Please see an article in the Lancashire Telegraph, 1st June 2010.

In July 2009, Lancashire County Cricket Club ran a series of consultation events about plans to redevelop the "cricket ground and environs", which include a new 168,000 sq ft Tesco store. A group " No Mega Tesco" organised a public meeting on the 28th September to discuss the plans. Please see the Trafford Mega Tesco poster.doc publicising the meeting and the MegaTesco leaflet and an article in the Messenger, 1st October 2009.

On the 21st October, members of the group gathered at the Town Hall to have an "exchange of views" with Councillors arriving for a full Council meeting. Please see the Manchester Evening News, 22nd October 2009.

On the 19th November the planning application was formally registered. View the planning application here. Trafford Council was due to consider the application on the 11th February 2010 but has postponed the meeting until March.

Manchester City Council has written to Trafford Council stating that the proposed Tesco store could be hugely damaging to Chorlton businesses. It has requested it reduce the size of the Tesco supermarket included in the bid. Please see South Manchester Reporter, 22nd February 2010.

Planning officers have recommended planning permission be granted for the Tesco store but recommends refusal of the 90,000 sq ft Sainsbury's application. Please see an article in Crain's Business News, 4th March 2010.

Trafford council approved the Tesco application on the 11th March.

No Mega Tesco called on local residents and businesses to write to both Government Office North West and the secretary of state for planning to call for a public inquiry. Please see an article in the Manchester Evening News, 19th March 2010.

However, on 23rd June the group received news that the Secretary of State has decided not to call-in the application to build a 168,000 sq ft Tesco store as part of the LCCC redevelopment.

For more information please contact nomegatesco@googlemail.com and visit the campaign website at http://www.nomegatesco.org.uk/

In December 2009 plans for a 80,000 sq ft free-standing Tesco superstore at Great Homer Street, Liverpool were rejected. The proposal was in competition with a 45-acre regeneration scheme by Liverpool City Council and development partner St Modwen. They had argued the standalone Tesco store would have prejudiced their plans for a new district centre.

The Tesco application also included a petrol station, car parking and landscaping, an indoor market and outdoor market area in Great Homer Street. But following a public inquiry earlier this year Tesco's application has been rejected by planning inspector Phillip Ware. For further information please see an article at placenorthwest.co.uk, 1st December 2009.

In January 2010 Tesco announced it will seek a judicial review over the decision to turn down its application. Tesco will seek a review of the decision which favoured Sainsbury's to open a supermarket as part of the project in the Great Homer Street area. Sainsbury’s was chosen to be the retail partner of the £150m Project Jennifer which is seen as central to improve the Everton and Kirkdale areas. Please see an article in the Liverpool Echo, 9th January 2010.

In March the City Council wrote to Tesco asking to buy it's land in north Liverpool needed for the Project Jennifer regeneration. Please see an article in the Liverpool Daily Post, 11th March 2010. This followed calls from Sainsbury's in February for Tesco to "step aside" and let the regeneration project begin.

On 1st July High Court judges rejected an appeal from supermarket giant Tesco over a planning inspector's decision to refuse permission for a store on a contested site in Liverpool.

Tesco has announced plans to build a 140,000 sqft Tesco Extra store on the site of St James RC Primary opposite Salford Shopping City in Pendleton.

The owners of Salford Shopping City say it is facing 'decimation' if a vast stand-alone Tesco is built next to it. Previous plans had ensured that both the shopping centre and the proposed Tesco store would be developed in partnership to guarantee the two sites were fully integrated. For further information please see an article in the Manchester Evening News, 7th July 2009.

Tesco has confirmed that it is planning to take over the old Brunshaw Inn, Burnley, and open an Express store. Local traders and newsagents are worried about the proposal and one local trader plans to seek planning permission for a £50,000 extension to his newsagents so he can “take the fight” to Tesco.

Councillors had already granted Manchester-based planning consultancy GL Hearn permission for a full shop refit and the installation of an ATM before it was confirmed that Tesco would be leasing the premises. Tesco has said it had only recently been offered the site by an agent. For further information please see an article at thisislancashire.co.uk, 12th June 2009.

In August 2009 residents, businesses and councillors mounted a strong campaign to stop Tesco opening an Express store in Hope Street.  Please see an article in the Liverpool Daily Post, 20th August 2009.

In the face of growing public concern that it was not in keeping with the historic street and conservation area, Tesco withdrew its application in early September 2009. It has confirmed that it will not submit any further planning applications on Hope Street, after talks with businesses, residents and councillors of the area revealed the strength of feeling. Tesco said “Our designs needed amending to be more in keeping with the conservation area, so we have decided to look for an alternative site.”

For further information please see an article in the Liverpool Daily Post, 4th September 2009.

The owners of the Trafford Centre, Peel Holdings, have submitted an application to build a 7,000 sq m supermarket on land at the Trafford Retail Park. The proposed supermarket would be one and a half times bigger than a new Sainsbury's that is due to open this summer and is less than one mile away from the proposed site.

Local traders fear another new supermarket will "kill-off" the town centre and would be in direct competition with the redeveloped Urmston town centre. They also fear the new supermarket will cause further congestion on Lostock Circle, the site where Peel is already planning to build a four-star hotel. 

Residents had until April 14 to write to the council over the plans. For more information please see an article in the Trafford Metro News, 10th April 2009 and an article in the Messenger, 17th April 2009.

Sainsbury's submitted an application for a supermarket on Middlewich Road in Nantwich in March 2009. Nantwich town councillors voiced concerns and urged planners to refuse the development because of the detrimental effect it could have on Nantwich businesses.

In July planning offcials from Cheshire East Council recommended the application be refused but at the planning committee meeting on July 7th the committee agreed to defer the application for further talks and a site visit by the planning committee. For further information please see an article in the Crewe and Nantwich Guardian, 29th July 2009.

However, in November 2009. Cheshire East Council's Strategic Planning committee unanimously granted approval. Please see the Crewe and Nantwich Guardian, 18th Nvoember 2009.

In January 2009 Tesco submitted plans for a new store on the site of Hope's auction mart in Wigton. In March 2009 around 200 people lobbied members of Wigton town council and Allerdale Council over proposals for the 30,000sq ft store, café and 300 car parking spaces in Wigton’s conservation area. 

Residents and traders are particularly concerned that a new Tesco supermarket would force town's independent traders out of business, spelling the destruction of community spirit in the town. Traders feel the Town Council has let them down after it announced its support for the new Tesco plans - see an article in the Cumberland News, 20th March 2009, an article in the Cumberland News, 6th March 2009 and an article from the 10th April 2009.

The Co-op has also objected to the plans and Cumbria County Council has voiced concerns about traffic issues. Please see an article in the Cumberland News, 3rd July 2009.

In mid-July Tesco withdrew it's original application for the site and re-submitted revised plans which include a new design with the store front facing the street. Please see an article in the Cumberland News, 17th July 2009.

In October 2007 Tesco lost its appeal to build a supermarket on stilts in Viaduct Estate, Carlisle. Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears, ruled against the scheme for a 71,000sq ft store with parking underneath.

In January 2010 Tesco submitted revised plans to open yet another Carlisle store – this time on the western side of the city a the Horse and Farrier in Wigton Road. It has already tried once to secure planning permission for the former Horse & Farrier pub site but withdrew its application in July last year after local concerns. For more information please see the News and Star, 28th January 2010.

Meanwhile in March, the City Council is staging an exhibition of its plans for a 88,0000 sq ft supermarket on agricultural land off Wigton Road.The council owns the land and is consulting residents before it applies to itself for outline planning consent. It well then sell the site to a supermarket chain. Please see an article in the News and Star, 4th March 2010.

Sainsbury's is proposing to enlarge the sales area of its Chester store from 3,133 sq m to 5,400 sq m, including a new mezzanine floor. The application is opposed by parish councillors and neighbours who are concerned about the extra traffic and its effect on Sainsbury's roundabout at the junction of the A41.

The application was recommended for approval to December's meeting of the city's planning board but councillors decided to defer the matter for more information about access arrangements. For more information please see an article in the Chester Chronicle, 5th January 2009.

On 12th January 2009 Councillors unanimously voted to approve the extention despite ongoing concerns about traffic and access. Please see an article in the Chester Chronicle, 12th January 2009.

In January 2008 Tesco submitted an application to Sefton Council to expand its Town Lane store by a third - taking it to  80,000 sq ft. In August West Lancs Council turned down the proposal to increase the store.

And on the 14th January 2009 Tesco withdrew its plans to expand its Town Lane store ahead of the planning committee meeting that night. Councillors were expected to reject the supermarket giant’s plans to increase its Kew superstore from 7,000 square metres to 11,000 square metres, create a new petrol station on the site and add extra parking.

More than 3,300 people signed a petition against the expansion bid, with Sefton’s planning officers warning that green-lighting the plans would “be detrimental to the vitality and viability of Southport town centre”. For further information please see an article in the Southport Visiter, 14th Janaury 2009.

Tesco in Stalybridge is submitting an application to increase the size of its store by adding a new mezzanine floor and more parking space.  A new campaign group,  SayNO2Tesco campaign, has been set up and is fighting against the plans, as are the residents.  Over 300 people attended a public meeting at Stalybridge Civic Hall in August 2008 to discuss the plans. Tesco failed to send a representative. Please see an article in the Tameside Reporter.

Those interested in joining the campaign against the proposed expansion are asked to contact the SayNO2Tesco campaign, telephone (0161) 338 8894 or email SayNO2Tesco@yahoo.com

In March 2008 Waitrose submitted a planning application for a 16,000 sq ft store. A new group, Poynton Against Large Supermarkets organised a gathering on Saturday 12th April adjacent to the proposed site to raise awareness and share information. A Parish planning meeting considered the Waitrose application on 16th April, and the full application was considered and approved by the Borough Council on the 6th May 2008. For further information please see the Manchester Evening News, 8th May 2008 or contact the group at palsofpoynton@hotmail.co.uk.

March 2008 - Campaigners in Poynton celebrated as Macclesfield Borough Council rejected Tesco's plans for a new store. A campaign group Poynton Against Tesco had opposed Tesco's plans for a new 17,000 sq ft store, which included 110 parking spaces. The proposed site was a Texaco garage, car showroom and former cinema on London Road South.

In November 2009, Secretary of State John Denham upheld the planning inspectorate's decision to refuse permission to Everton Football Club and Tesco to build a new stadium and retail park in Kirkby. Read his decision here.

On 20th August 2010 Tesco submitted new plans Knowsley Council to overhaul the town centre. Tesco’s regeneration subsidiary, Spenhill, is pursuing a more modest scheme which includes a scaled down superstore, shops, a new library and green spaces. Please see an article in the Liverpool Daily Post, 21st August 2010.

Keep Chorlton Interesting was born out of the No Tesco campaign during 2007-08. The group is now working on a new project.

Revelopment of Chorlton’s shopping precinct has been on the cards for many years. Built in the 1970’s, it is fairly typical of its time, and perhaps a bit neglected. But it is well-used, home to a mixture of independents, smallish chains, and a Boots and a Quality Save. Recently, plans for redevelopment have become definite, and the owners of the precinct are soon to sign an agreement with Ask Developments for a large-scale redevelopment of the precinct and much of the district centre itself. Although plans have not yet been formally submitted to the council, if rumour is to be believed, the developers intend to include in their plans a large (possibly very large) new supermarket. There is also talk of several high street chains such as ‘Next’ being approached.

In 2010 campaigners learnt that Tesco plans to open another store in Chorlton in the vacant Feathers pub. It is able to redevelop the site without needing planning permission for change of use. Tesco already has a Metro store in Chorlton, on Manchester Road – around one kilometre from the Feathers site. Please see an article in the Manchester Evening News, 5th July 2010.

Please get in touch with keepchorltoninteresting@gmail.com if you'd like to be involved. See www.keepchorltoninteresting.org for lots more info.

In 2007 plans were submitted to Hyndburn Council for a 45,000 sq. ft Tesco store in Great Harwood Lancashire. Local retailers started a campaign to oppose the development. For further information please see the local media coverage.

However, an article in the Lancashire Telegraph, 15th January 2008, reported that Tesco's planning application had been approved. According to the article section 106 monies included £170,000 to upgrade bus stops in the area, a contribution of £25,000 to footpath improvements along the north side of Queen Street and a contribution of £65,000 towards environmental improvements in the town. But despite this the Local Government Office in Manchester ordered a 4-day public inquiry which started on July 7th 2008.  On 5th December an article in the Blackburn Citizen reported that Government Inspector, Philip Ware, has refused Tesco permission to open a new store in Great Harwood. He concluded there was no longer a need for the store in the town after a £32million Tesco store off Eagle Street, Accrington, was approved following a seperate planning enquiry. 

On the 23rd June 2009  Hyndburn planning committee approved a 4,900 sq m Tesco store on Queen Street, Great Harwood. For more information please see an article in the Lancashire Telegraph, 24th  June 2009.

In 2009 Tesco submitted two planning applications for a 20,000 sqm (1.25 hectare store), bounded by Wheelock Street, Darlington Street and Southway. 

The plans were rejected by the Council in May 2009 but Tesco submitted new plans which were approved in August 2009.

In August 2007 residents in Grappenhall, Warrington celebrated after Tesco withdrew its application for a Tesco Express store on the site of a car showroom situated on Knutsford Road. The site is opposite a primary school and adjacent to a residential street which has had parking problems for many years. Residents believe Tesco withdrew its application after being informed the application would likely be refused on the grounds of increased street traffic and insufficient off-road parking (the application had only included 8 off-street car parking spaces).

However, in November 2007 Tesco submitted a revised application, and in January 2008 the Council approved the application.

Residents and parents in Failsworth opposed plans by a developer for a Tesco superstore, petrol station, retail, office and accommodation units and a community centre.  For further information, see local press coverage. However, despite the opposition the store has been built and opened. In May 2008 Tesco submitted a new planning application for a proposed extension to the store, which was approved by the Council's planning committee in September 2008.

When Tesco recently won planning permission for a new 24 hour store in Burnage only a mile from the large 24 hr Didsbury Tesco so Manchester Friends of the Earth decided this was the perfect opportunity to find out just what impact the ever growing number of supermarkets is having.

The Save Our Cloffocks campaign fought a long and hard campaign to oppose Tesco plans to build a Tesco Extra, 92,900 sq ft store with 700 car parking spaces on the Cloffocks. The Cloffocks is an area of local importance and residents believe historically belonged to the people of Workington for sports and recreation and should not be sold by the Council. However, following three years of negotiations over the application, it was finally approved by Allerdale Council's Development Panel on January 15th 2008.

However, in 2010 local landowner, the Countess of Lonsdale, invoked her family's ancient rights to mine on the land in a move that could block the store plan. In March Tesco filed papers in the Chancery Division of the High Court responding to the Countess's assertions and asking that she and the council present their case to clarify the issue before a judge. Tesco still has to complete a Section 106 agreement as part of the process that requires it to invest in infrastructure before it can build a store. Asda has been granted permission for a store close by. For more information please see an article in the Daily Mail, 29th March 2010.

In Stockport, Tesco built a large hypermarket they had billed as a ‘regeneration store’ 20% larger than they had been granted planning permission for by Stockport Council. The store, 120,000 square feet rather than 100,000 square feet as allowed by the council, opened and started trading in November 2004 at the larger size. Tesco first applied to the Council to allow them the extra space two months before the store’s opening, in September 2004, though the store had been in construction since January 2004. The Council had imposed the size limit for road safety and to protect other shops, and local residents and traders felt the extra space would be damaging to the town and were angry that Tesco could get away with this. The campaign was a response to events that had happened, urging the Council to take enforcement action against Tesco.

Following pressure from 200 local businesses as well as concerned residents, the Council that Tesco reapply for full planning permission for the store. The Council stated that the store in its current state illegal, as it was not constructed in line with its planning permission. Since then Tesco have submitted a number of retrospective applications, the latest of which was rejected by Tame Valley Area Committee in September 2006 but approved by the full Planning Committee later the same month. The application approves the store as stands, with the additional retail space standing but unused. Campaigners wrote to the Secretary of State suggesting she call-in the application because it departs from the Development Plan, but she decided not to.

For further information, contact local resident Sheila Oliver at sheila.oliver@tiscali.co.uk or local trader Steve Parfett at steve.parfett@parfetts.co.uk, and read the latest local media coverage on the Area Committee and Planning Committee decisions.

We have been campaigning to stop Tesco in Mather Ave, Liverpool L18 from extending their store onto a children's hockey pitch for 2 years. There were two main applications in question, Scheme 2 & Scheme 4. Both were recommended for approval by the planning officer, but turned down by the Local Council. Tesco appealed against Scheme 2 and we attended a Public Inquiry against this in November 2005. However, we were surprised that the appellant (Tesco) and the barrister for the City Council had asked the Inspector on the first day of the Inquiry to consider both applications. This took us by surprise as we had not had sight of the papers for Scheme 4 and had thus not prepared any evidence. Disappointingly, to the vast majority of residents and small businesses who will be affected, the costs to challenge the decision were prohibitive.