Cast your Vote on Morrison's store proposals in Tunstall. As a shopper are they good or bad news for the town?
With objections being raised over the new proposed Morrisions store on the former Johnson Tiles site on Brownhills Road, Tunstall from Newcastle Borough Council, and local traders, I'd like to know what do people who live in and around Tunstall think?
Good or bad for the town's people.
Comments
Great news for Tunstall at
Great news for Tunstall at last an investment that will bring people and jobs into Tunstall not like the Blue Planet building that has done nothing but gather dust.
I think it will be good for
I think it will be good for Tunstall. Asda has too much monopoly. It shouldn't affect the high street any more than it is already affected. Maybe their parking will be free and people will then take a walk up to the high street. The state of some of the shop fronts is more likely to detere people from a) bringing their business to Tunstall and B) deter people from shopping on the high street. Really dont know why Newcastle should be objecting.
It was ok to move the
It was ok to move the sainsburys to outside the ring road, people could park at the old newcastle sainsburys walk into town come back shop at sainsburys and home, Did NBC not see that....surely that has taken business away!
Biggest mistake ever for
Biggest mistake ever for Newcastle . We used to always go to newcastle, pay our pound, go into town, then return to buy £5 worth of shopping to get my pound back. Now we just don't bother.
By-Pass The traffic on
By-Pass The traffic on Brownhills Road concerns me- what are they doing about the by-pass?
Great but they need to
Great but they need to include the Southern Link road which the council have been asking them to incorporate, but Morrisons have declined
http://www.planning.stoke.gov.uk/Documents/18275_65.pdf
I don't remember all this
I don't remember all this fuss when they built ASDA?
I guess from the towns
I guess from the towns traders point of view, they've had a decade of ASDA trading to content with, crappy parking (by that I mean not free/or rip off), the emergance of the internet and so on.
Having traded in Tunstall for
Having traded in Tunstall for twenty years, I must say that somehow – goodness knows how, some people still shop in the town, thank you for this. As far as supermarkets go, many years ago, the time when the indoor market was on a temporary site, when all we had was Netto, Kwik save and Aldi, there were tongue in cheek assurances made from the council. They promised the town traders that no more of the same would be allowed in. True to form, shortly afterwards we got Asda to add to the list followed by Argos, Matalan and Next... all to constructively kill the old town.
Morrisons? Biggest fool them with Asda just up the road; the available custom will only be divided out (if they’re lucky). Anyway, we all know who are the cheapest, don’t we?
Bill C
Having traded in Tunstall for
Having traded in Tunstall for twenty years, I must say that somehow – goodness knows how, some people still shop in the town, thank you for this. As far as supermarkets go, many years ago, the time when the indoor market was on a temporary site, when all we had was Netto, Kwik save and Aldi, there were tongue in cheek assurances made from the council. They promised the town traders that no more of the same would be allowed in. True to form, shortly afterwards we got Asda to add to the list followed by Argos, Matalan and Next... all to constructively kill the old town.
Morrisons? Biggest fool them with Asda just up the road; the available custom will only be divided out (if they’re lucky). Anyway, we all know who are the cheapest, don’t we?
Bill C
Since we have had asda and
Since we have had asda and the other shops like Argos and next and matalan in tunstall trade in tunstall has gone up I think , you see a lot more people up an down in the town I still shop in the market for my meat and my veg and other things a lot of people do I only go asda when I have got to many people I speak to do the same, so I think that morrisons would proberly just be the Same .
so I don't think that this proposal would do much damage I fact that damage was done years ago when these large enterprise shops were allowed to open in the first place small traders will never come back and be how they were those days have gone and as for asda it needs some competition the breads shocking stale most of the time .
Sue, bit off topic. Loved all
Sue, bit off topic. Loved all your posts this morning, they reallt add to the topic of morrisons coming to town.
Just one thing though, because your a guest posting your comments go into a holding queue until I have a chance to check them.
It would be easier for both of us, if you signed up for an account so that way, once it's approved, your posts will go straight onto the site.
Also guests don't see the latest version of the site, they see the site form about 15 minutes ago.
Maybe it isn't an ideal use
Maybe it isn't an ideal use of the land. But it will be still be better than leaving it in its current state. Walking across the junction with Williamson Street and Connaught Street every morning to take my son to school is very depressing, when you see all the run down buildings on the bottom of the High Street. They all need buldozing.
Give morrisons to Burslem
Give morrisons to Burslem they need it more than Tunstall, four supermarkets in the area are enough (2 Asda, Aldi and Lidl) surely we don't need another.
Supermarkets are multi
Supermarkets are multi million pound businesses, they do strategic analysis on all areas. So why are they fighting to get their feet planted firmly in Burslem? Theres plenty of brown fields land there, what's stopping them coming?
morrisons would be great for
morrisons would be great for tunstall,1 for creating new jobs.2 for the economy. 3 it would give th people of tunstall and surrounding areas more choice, as for spoiling trade in tunstall there is none it can only bring more trade,i am sure the many fast food shops we have in tunstall would be glad of more trade coming in to tunstall. The land is an eye sore as it stands has been for many years .more shops means more people and that can't be a bad thing now can it for everyone concerned in tunstall so let's see morrisons and more .sue b tunstall.
I live in tunstall and
I live in tunstall and welcome morrisons and the petrol station very much ,I think it would be of great benefit for our community ,it would also do something with the land that is just an eyesore to every one. It can't really take trade of the town neither ther is not really much trade in the town I would imagine it would bring more trade in to the town, as for asda objecting they have no right they have got a big enough piece of the market as it is .i don't think people all of a sudden are going to say iam not going in to asda any more nor am I not going in to the market or town centre iam just going to go to morrisons won't happpen people like a choice of different things and shopping around is one of them. Sue b tunstall.
new plans have been put into
new plans have been put into place for the morrisons store and the new shops must be none food and also a family pub something else which would be good instead of always travelling out of the area to places like the cauldwell for instance and china gardens to name a couple and well known stores already showed interest in the site once the plans were revealed so jobs would by very very welcome maybe even having a cinema bk in tunstall would be fantastic for the north of the city too , the days of the high st are long long gone i am afraid just look all round the u.k to see that but limiting the damage by incorperating the old and new is maybe the best way forward
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