It angers me to see how the face of our town can be defaced by the night of the giant retailers such as Sainsburys: I refer of course to the proposed removal of our roundabout so that we can have an alternative venue to purchase our baked beans and cat food.
Sainsburys know that the local council does not have the financial clout to stand up to the them and fight them in court and those massive companies steam roller over everything and anyone in their path who protests against what they are doing.
I have to ask do we need another supermarket? It seems to me that Sainsburys will have the same range as Morrisons- and its not as if we are as big as Manchester or Birmingham. It only takes a few minutes to get from Churnet Works to Morrisons. In addition we also have a large Coop, Aldi Asda and Farmfoods to do our shopping. The town is well served by national chainstores.
What about the independents? Small businesses will suffer, the argument that Sainsbury will bring in people, they will visit Sainsburys and that is all they might visit the cafe and get home before their frozen food defrosts
Leek is becoming a clone town and identical shopping experience duplicated all over the country. We are being colonised, walk through Leek and check it out.
We need a town with individuality to attract people here, small business need to be encouraged not squeezed out by the retail giants. Our roundabout is iconic of Leek. With the monument behind it it is a beautiful little bit of the town and to think it replaced by a drab faceless traffic lights is tragic
A public campaign to save an 80 year old roundabout in the Staffordshire Moorlands town of Leek
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