Look Mom we're on the telly

Stouport on the TV last night. Central Tonight had a feature as part of the destruction of the generic High Street. I actually got a heads-up on this from a source I won't name at this moment.

The direct link is here though it doesn't want to work in my copy of Firefox. You'll get an advert followed by the news, the report starts at 04:00-06:45 with a teaser at 00:45

There's a few interviews Cllr Jim Perry standing next to the Swan (05:00) and Cllr. Stephen Clee (05:54) outside Kiddy town hall.

As Cllr Clee states there is an overall plan, which is good especially compared to the mess that is Weavers Wharf; except it doesn't quite add up.

We get the Basin Link from Bridge Street across to the new development. Except it's really a link from the Houses behind York Street to Bridge Street, you've still got the basin in the way. So down to Engine Lane (or up to York Street which is just cutting off the corner) and along that, then down the already existing path along the river to Mart Lane or you carry on along the river to Severnside and on to the Severn Road you then walk back up that way to get to the proposed supermarket.
Green shows the existing stores, blue the new/proposed houses, yellow the proposed Tesco, and red a possible route from Bridge Street down. The top block in green is the Co-op, Lidl and existing Tesco, for anyone pointing out that the distance from this point to the proposed Tesco isn't that great I'll counter with "You've never walked down Mitton Street have you?"

It's a trek, moreover from the town it's a trek with only a single destination in mind; there are no shops along the river-side path or basin so you're only purpose in using it would be to get to Tesco. From the other side with the housing developments it does indeed provide a nice link into Bridge Street, but why bother when you've a Tesco on your doorstep?