Tesco is planning a 1,440 sqm store at the rear of existing shops on Teme Street in Tenbury Wells.

Following the submission of further reports including a Flood Risk Assessment, Ecological, Heritage, Sustainability and Landscape Statements, Tesco Stores Ltd has been informed by Malvern Hills District Council that their application for a supermarket on the Former Cattle Market site, Teme Street, Tenbury Wells is now valid.

A copy of the planning application is available to view at the public library in Tenbury and on the Malvern Hills District Council web-site http://www.malvernhills.gov.uk/. Tenbury Wells town Council discussed the application on the 7th June. Please see the Tenbury Blog.

At the end of July Malvern District Council turned down Tesco's application to demolish the Russell Baldwin & Bright building as they decided demolition would harm the town's conservation Area. As a result Tesco withdrew its planning application, but has indicated it will resubmit plans at a later date. Please see an article in the Shropshire Star, 22nd July 2010.

A campaign group called OS21 has been set up to campaign against four current planning applications for another supermarket in Oswestry. The group is in a coalition with CPRE and Civic Society. OS21 has had a website running for the last 2 years - www.oswestry21.com.

The four supermarket applications were considered at a meeting of Shropshire Council’s Strategic Planning Committee on the afternoon of 29th July 2010. Shropshire Council planning officers recommended that the town centre scheme should be approved but the Committee did not agree and it was turned down. Decisions on the other three schemes have been deferred because councillors felt they did not have enough information. Please see an article at BBC News, 29th July 2010.

In September the developers, J Ross Developments, announced they would appeal against the decision to reject their plans for the town-centre car-park. Please see an article in the Shropshire Star, 4th September 2010.

A new campaign group, Dorridge Residents Opposed to Village Superstore, was set up to oppose plans for a new Sainsbury's supermarket in the 1960's Forest Court precinct in Dorridge. The group has raised fears over levels of traffic, parking, the impact of service yard deliveries on nearby households and the loss of dozens of mature trees.

The proposal was recommended for approval by Borough planners but in March around 150 residents turned out to see Solihull Council’s planning committee reject the Sainsbury's application. The committee unanimously ruled out the design and scale as threatening to the “village” atmosphere. For further information please see an article in the Birmingham Mail, 12th March 2010.

On the 8th July 2010 the Silhillian reported that Sainsbury's held a workshop on the 17th July for residents to help it develop a new plan. Sainsbury's has also sent a questionnaire to village homes.

In August 2010 a public inquiry was held on the grounds that Telford & Wrekin Council had not dealt with the application within 12 weeks. Developer Growing Enterprises want to build a 16,749 sq ft giant retail unit – primed for Lidl – as the latest development at Mere Park on the fringes of Newport.

Telford & Wrekin Council’s legal team argued at the inquiry that a new supermarket would detract trade from Waitrose and Co-op, which are already in the town centre. The plans received objections from Newport Civic Society and Newport Town Council, amongst others amid concerns the proposals would damage existing trade.

For more information please see an article in the Shropshire Star, 11th August 2010.

Developers Exmax  have withdrawn plans for a Tesco store as part of a development to include sheltered housing and a medical centre. Residents in Moseley opposed the plans because of the impact on surrounding independent businesses and increased traffic congestion. However, the developers have indicated that they do intend to resubmit new plans at a later date. For further information please see an article in the Birmingham Mail, 28th February 2009.

In March 2010 more than 100 protesters unanimously rejected a Exmax's latest proposals to turn the derelict Meteor Ford site on the corner of St Mary’s Row and Oxford Road in Moseley into a mixed use complex. The new proposalsare scaled-down new plans, consisting of a Tesco supermarket, with 14 apartments, three-storey medical practice and 103 car parking spaces.

In June the Birmingham Post reported that city planners are calling for a complete review of traffic and transport in and around Moseley village before they give the new store the go ahead ahead, and have pledged to hold a full public meeting to allow residents to air their views once a final planning application is submitted.

A new campaign group has been set up in Bromsgrove to object to plans by Sainsburys to build a new 50,000 sq ft store on the Bromsgrove Retail Park on Birmingham Road. Please see an article in the Bromsgrove Advertiser, 14th October 2008

A planning application was submitted in May 2009 but a year later no decision has been made. Please see the application here.  For more information please see the campaign website.

In 2006 Tesco announced plans for a new store on an ex-industrial site with listed buildings. Local residents and traders, worried about the impact a new store would have on the town centre and traffic, started a campaign to oppose the plans. In August 2009 a new application by Tesco was given outline planning permission for a store, car park and petrol station at the former Carpets of Worth factory site in Severn Road.

In October 2009, the Co-op won the go-ahead to bring a new legal challenge to the grant of planning permission to Tesco. Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Dyson ruled that Midcounties Co-op has an arguable case, justifying a full appeal hearing on a date yet to be scheduled. Please see an article in the Kidderminster Shuttle, 27th October 2009.

In April 2010 the Co-op took their battle to stop Tesco opening in the town to London’s Court of Appeal. The Midcounties Co-operative Limited is asking Lord Justice Laws, Lady Justice Smith and Lord Justice Rimer to quash the planning permission granted by Wyre Forest District Council in May 2008 for a Tesco at the former Carpets of Worth site, in Severn Road, on the grounds that a condition limiting the retail floorspace is unclear.

At the end of July the three judges ruled that the condition was "sufficiently clear and certain" and that the permission should stand. Please see an article in the Kidderminster Shuttle, 29th July 2010.

Residents and traders in Stirchley are concerned about plans by Tesco to develop a major food development on Hazelwell Lane. In October 2007 Birmingham City Council confirmed that it is its intention, in principle, to select Tesco as the preferred developer. Birmingham City Council approved Tesco's application. Campaigners were fighting to get the application called in for considering by the Secretary of State. For further information see coverage in the Birmingham Mail from 26th July 2008.

Over 2,000 signatures were collected on a petition opposing the sale of the Walnut Tree pub to Tesco. Pub owner Punch Taverns agreed to sell the land to Tesco who plan to open a Tesco Express store on the site.  On the 1st April Tesco submitted four separate applications to Warwick District Council for changes to the building. On the 29th July 2009, Warwickshire District Council planning committee granted permission but deferred permission to extend the building by 42 square metres. Please see an article in the Warwick Courier, 30th July 2009.

On 27th September 2009 Warwick District Council agreed to allow the 40 square metre extension to the pub thus allowing Tesco to open an Express store.

For further information please see press coverage:
- Success for Tesco and Lidl, disappointment for residents, Leamington Observer, 28th September 2009
- Tesco pushes ahead with plans, The Courier, 7th April 2009
 - United We Stand - Against Tesco, Leamington Courier, 27th March 2009
- Resist Tesco, Leamington Courier, 6th March 2009
- Leamington pub regular's petition to keep Tesco out gathers momentum, Leamington Courier, 20th February 2009
- Protestors resist Tesco plans Lillington's Walnut Tree Pub, 24th July 2009

Or visit the campaign website at http://www.savethewalnuttreepub.com and sign the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/WalnutTreePub/

In April 2008 Tesco submitted two new applications to Worcester City Council that both contained plans for a new Tesco Express on the site of a former petrol station on Barbourne Road. Local shopkeepers are opposing the plans which also include proposals to create flats.

In June 2008 Worcester City Council turned down the two applications to build the store and flats but Tesco appealed.

After a three day planning inquiry in January 2009 the Planning Insepctor ruled that Tesco could go ahead and build the store and flats. Campaigners against the new store attended the inquiry. The store will be the fifth in the city, with the company already planning to open another Tesco Express half-a-mile away in the former post office building by Foregate Street railway station. Please see an article in the Worcester News, 17th February 2009.

On 22nd March 2010, the Worcester Standard reported that the plans for an Express store in Barbourne have been shelved.

Plans for a new Tesco Express store as part of an application by Esso to develop the petrol station on Cheltenham Road, Evesham were withdrawn in June 2007. Over 700 residents and local shopkeepers signed a petition to oppose the plans.

However, in autumn 2007 Esso submitted a new proposal and on the 12th November, Councillor's voted unanimously to oppose the plans for the Tesco Express store (see the Evesham Journal, 13.11.07) despite planning officers having recommended approval. Please see an article in the Evesham Journal 6.12.07.

On 12th November 2009, District Councillors "reluctantly" approved new plans after it was revealed that critical objections had been withdrawn since it was last submitted by the current occupier, Esso. These plans were initially turned down twice, once by the District Council and once on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate. For more information please see an article in the Evesham Journal, 17th November 2009.

Residents campaigned against plans by Tesco to sell alcohol at a store on the edge of Bournville, an alcohol-free village in Birmingham. The area was built by the Quaker George Cadbury in the 1890s and has been alcohol-free since then. In March 2007 Birmingham City Council's licensing committee refused the application to sell alcohol at the store. A particular concern was the impact this could have on anti-social behaviour in the area. For further information and local reaction, see coverage in the Birmingham Post, The Times, and BBC.

A major Tesco development on Bristol Street, near Birmingham city centre, was opposed by Attwood Green Residents Organisation (AGRO). Residents had serious concerns about the impact of a Tesco store and in particular the lack of supermarket choice in the area. The group organised a joint demonstration with campaigners from Hodge Hill on 14th December 2006.

The group was granted Rule 6 status and participated in the Public Inquiry to determine the application which opened on 12th March 2007 and closed at the end of April 2007. 

The "Keep Shirley Alive" group has led a campaign since the 1980s against an unpopular development of a large ASDA superstore initially on an old office site and then on a former TA site, extending onto parkland. We take our remit from numerous public meetings and a referendum which we organised which showed that local residents do not want another large superstore. Reasons include: the number of supermarkets we already have, anticipated additional traffic to an already busy area, damage to local retail businesses due to the one-stop nature of large superstores, amongst others.

Bridgnorth has faced an ongoing battle with Tesco, which signed a confidential commercial agreement in 2003 with Bridgnorth District Council restricting the use of other council land for supermarket development. The agreement impacted on alternative development proposals for the area even after the Tesco application was quashed by the High Court in 2005. Tesco reapplied and residents formed a campaign group to oppose the development, which produced posters, a petition, objection letters and a planning report. In July 2006 the Council voted to refuse Tesco's latest application and in October 2006 voted to abandon the legal agreement.

The CHRISS campaign group in Worcestor has worked since 2000 to oppose an alliance of Tesco and Worcestershire County Council. Campaigners believe that Tesco and WCC are trying to move the Christopher Whitehead High School to a farmer's field, outside its current catchment area, in order to clear a site that is more central in the community for a huge new supermarket. The community and parents' wishes are against the scheme.

In 2005 Tesco submitted plans for a 55,000 sq ft store to be built on open space – the store would take up nearly a fifth of Brockhurst Road playing fields. Many residents and groups including the local MP, Liam Byrne, joined the campaign against the loss of the playing fields to the supermarket, and in April 2005 the MP presented a petition opposing development to Parliament. 80% of residents polled by the MP were against the plans. 

In December 2006 the City Council's planning committee recommended approval for the application. In January 2007 campaigners submitted a 45 page document setting out their objections to the Government Office of the West Midlands. For further information please see the latest local media coverage.

For more information, please contact Richard Moore of the anti Tesco campaign on 0121 783 3114, read a debate in the House of Commons on the application, and read local media coverage. Follow the link below to read a report about Hodge Hill from Richard Moore of the anti-Tesco campaign in Hodge Hill.

HASSLE is a cross-party coalition of local groups, businesses and individuals opposed to further expansion of supermarkets in Hereford. We are in favour of a more exciting and viable development of the Edgar Street grid, rather than another supermarket, as we are not aware of any research indicating that Hereford could actually support this increase in retail capacity.