Tesco plans new store in Shoreham (From The Argus)
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Tesco plans new store in Shoreham
3:00pm Friday 3rd February 2012 in News By John Keenan
Up to 25 jobs could be created at a new store.
Tesco plans to open an Express convenience food store on the site of the former Green Jacket pub in Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham.
A Tesco spokeswoman said: “Not only is this an excellent opportunity to regenerate this former pub site and bring it back to use but we look forward to investing in the area, creating new jobs, serving local people and becoming part of the community.”
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fred clause
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3:25pm Fri 3 Feb 12
clubrob6
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3:44pm Fri 3 Feb 12
sandalman
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3:50pm Fri 3 Feb 12
Thermo
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3:50pm Fri 3 Feb 12
SO theres a bloody great tescos store along the road, but it needs to put another store in to compete with the smaller stores along that road, with a car park right by a busy junction with two schools nearby as well. Theyre not regenerating the pub site and bringing it back to use it was a working pub till they took the site over. The company has already taken the heart out of the local shopping community and they think theyre doing us a favour?
Thermo
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3:52pm Fri 3 Feb 12
sandalman wrote:which shops in the area do that at the moment then, none to my knowledge. this is the same company with such a glowing reputation thats its had its licence taken away in various areas of sussex for selling booze to children under age on a regular basis
I would shop there, they have a good standard of food and service and they dont take out of date eggs and put them in boxes with longer expiry dates,also they dont sell fake booze,and it will create more local jobs,also you get a receipt for the money you have spent,also they pay their staff fairly,and they do not employ illegals.
sandalman
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3:59pm Fri 3 Feb 12
hennynanny
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5:42pm Fri 3 Feb 12
What the owner of the pub needs to do is to sell to a good quality "chain" of pub/restaurants, so it can become a place for families to go, especially being so close to the park.
If planning has not been granted and I cannot see any on the Adur Council Planning web site, then it needs to be challenged by all local residents!!!!!
Sheil C.B.
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5:43pm Fri 3 Feb 12
PaulOckenden
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5:54pm Fri 3 Feb 12
It'll be interesting to see if it works as a shop. Shame it's a Tesco, what with it being very close to Holmbush. Perhaps one of the other chains might have provided a bit of much needed competition.
Traffic is going to be the biggest issue. Huge lorries deliver to these sites, and there's a school very close by. Hopefully restrictions will be put on the store to prevent deliveries happening around school start/lunch/close times. That is, assuming Tesco takes any notice of the rules placed upon it - that's not an area where it has a great record.
Sevensisters
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8:42pm Fri 3 Feb 12
sussexram40
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8:47pm Fri 3 Feb 12
chilliman
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8:31am Sat 4 Feb 12
The Green Jacket, like many pubs, does seem to have been struggling for some years and, yes, it does seem rather close to Holmbush for another Tesco, but I would rather something was there than just a boarded up site. Where one boarded up site exists it usually isn't long before more businesses close because people don't go to the area.
Ted-Kelly1
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2:33pm Sat 4 Feb 12
kentan
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11:00am Sun 5 Feb 12
J Noble Daggett
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11:56am Sun 5 Feb 12
pebble counter
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12:07pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Ted-Kelly1 wrote:I'm afraid you are being paranoid, the chains aren't making it difficult so they can sell the property once the tenants have failed. I didn't know the Greenjackets had gone, it must have only just gone i'm sure there were people in it last week. Drinking is being driven out of fashion by cost, health advice and cheap booze in supermarkets. Who is going to sit in a large pub on their own spending £5 on a crap sandwich when you can get 4 cans for £3 and sit in the comfort of your own home. It's very sad but the pubs of yesteryear have got no chance in todays spendthrift times. I'd suggest to the locals if you don't want the Tesco there protest, and if they still open, don't shop there. They are losing ground to Sainsbury all the time.
Am I being paranoid, or do I see a pattern here? Pub chains making life difficult, so that successive managers quit, and then the asset-stripping owners say that the pubs are obviously not viable. Oh dear; the next step is for the supermarket owners to wait until there are not enough pubs, and start opening new ones in their large car-parks. Bring on the men in white coats!
Wooton Basset
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7:42pm Sun 5 Feb 12
chris elmes
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9:49am Mon 6 Feb 12
hennynanny wrote:The truth is that(in my opinion) once Punch Taverns gain control of a pub one of two things happens,it turns into a grotty Chav watering hole or gets sold off to developers after being bought fo a song in the first place.
Disgusting idea, if they get away with it. What a waste of space and how awful opposite such a lovely park.
What the owner of the pub needs to do is to sell to a good quality "chain" of pub/restaurants, so it can become a place for families to go, especially being so close to the park.
If planning has not been granted and I cannot see any on the Adur Council Planning web site, then it needs to be challenged by all local residents!!!!!
stephendivers
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4:40pm Sun 26 Feb 12
Thermo wrote:here-here Thermo !
sandalman wrote:which shops in the area do that at the moment then, none to my knowledge. this is the same company with such a glowing reputation thats its had its licence taken away in various areas of sussex for selling booze to children under age on a regular basis
I would shop there, they have a good standard of food and service and they dont take out of date eggs and put them in boxes with longer expiry dates,also they dont sell fake booze,and it will create more local jobs,also you get a receipt for the money you have spent,also they pay their staff fairly,and they do not employ illegals.
I agree with you.
Tesco are a complete bunch of money grabbing and unscroupulous arseholes.
I have friends who deal with them and supply to Tescos. They are not nice people to supply to and I personally know people that work there on the floor and as managers. They ARE NOT a nice firm to work for!
http://planning.adur
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Were is the planning permission!!!!!!
GO AWAY TESCOS - We not need OR want you. Bugger off !!
stephendivers
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4:52pm Sun 26 Feb 12
There are too many people on here that don’t know what they are talking about.
Mick and Marion ran that place really well and it had a good reputation.
Unfortunately when Marion moved out to the new landlord some 4ish years ago it went downhill due to Paul the new landlord.
Since then it has never re-gained it reputation due to a string of useless and inept landlords and managers.
"here ends the story thus far"
TESCOS please go away, we do not want your low-grade products, poor customer service and the chavy customers you seem to attract!
Regards
Slightly peeed off Stephen from Shoreham.
http://planning.adur
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ine-applications/sea
rchResultsBack.do?ac
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Were is the planning permission!!!!!!
GO AWAY TESCOS - We not need OR want you. Bugger off !!
ChrisDS says...
3:23pm Fri 3 Feb 12