Two sensible letters from the the Solihull News, April 28 2011. Please, if you’d like to see a smaller Sainsbury’s , do email your comments in solihull_news@mrn.co.uk or editor@solihullobserver.co.uk
Sense, please
Over the last few weeks I have read with interest the letters coming in concerning the opening of two potential supermarkets in Knowle and Dorridge.
I have to say my biggest concern is about the local council - how and why has it got to this stage? Surely common sense would say that the roads surrounding these two villages are insufficient to cater for two large supermarkets.
Someone from the local council should have spent some time in the surrounding area on a Saturday to witness the traffic without these two large retailers, and then I doubt very much if the debate would have gone on for this long! Please could common sense prevail?
Alternatives
The new proposals by Sainsbury’s is for a store far bigger than will be sustainable by the patronage oif the residents of Dorridge alone.
This size of store will need to attract customers from a far wider area.
As a residential community, do we want an unnecessary large increase in traffic, noise and pollution, which this will lead to.
I can see the only benefit to our community will be a large doctors surgery, which may well be needed to treat the health problems, that arise.
Where are the discussions about alternatives, say using the site for affordable housing, swimming baths, a gym, parking for the station and others.
It does not have to be all about supermarkets.
Simon Johnson, Dorridge
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