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    The Derwent Street Tesco Development:

    What all the fuss is about

    KEY

    A: The Triangle is replaced by a roundabout (or a large junction-Visitors to the "Community Update" were told both!). Also, Pym's Solicitors (an original Strutt building that once served as the Armoury for the Belper Militia) to be demolished!

    B: The new Feeder Road; cutting through the Meadows, demolishing the Cricket Pavillion and passing within a few metres of Meadow Court.

    C: A new petrol station.

    D: A 600-space car park.

    E: 24 hour Tesco! All 80,000 Square feet of it! Now with added light and noise pollution!

    F: Housing, Offices and Retail.

    G: More Retail : Tesco have talked with other companies like Argos and the usual suspects.

    H: Car parking.

    I: Morrisons' Roundabout.

    J/K: Focus and Morrisons. Tesco will be twice the size of Morrisons. Do you seriously think Belper can support that without closures?

    L: Possible new Retail unit.

    M: All the Sports Clubs to be rearranged (although no-one seemed at all sure how) and moved further down the Flood Plain towards the river... (Although the Environment Agency have had a thing or two to say about this already)

    Note: The much-promoted New Belper Library to be supposedly located off the A6, to the rear of the site. The County Council claim there is no other place for it. How about the Market Place (which most people in Belper want) or within Strutt's School?

    The Website of Belper Against Tesco Superstore
    This site is neither endorsed by, or anything to do with, Tesco PLC. As if you needed telling.