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Monday 25 May 2009

Tesco's Broken Cross

When planning permission was originally given for the Tesco's store at Broken Cross the original conditions specified that:
Deliveries to the site and collection of waste shall be limited to 7.30 to 18.00
hours on Monday to Saturday, excluding school drop off/collection times i.e. 8.30-
9.30 and 15.00 – 16.00 Monday to Friday. No deliveries / collections shall be
made on Sundays and Public Holidays.
Tesco's - never being happy with just owning most of Macclesfield - weren't happy with that, and they asked for deliveries to be possible between 6am and 11pm. I didn't think this was a good idea because there are a fair number of houses behind the site which would get rather riled by deliveries early in the morning or late at night.

I was therefore horrified when I read that permission had been "granted" - although in fact they've just extended the hours slightly. The condition now reads:
Deliveries to the site and collection of waste shall be limited to 7.30 to 20.00
hours on Monday to Saturday, and 10.00 to 16.00 hours on Sundays and
Public Holidays, excluding school drop off/collection times i.e. 8.30-9.30 and
15.00 – 16.00 Monday to Friday.
On balance, a good compromise.

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