Tesco - here we go again.

Yep another application with 52 accompanying documents featuring 14 drawings, 3 site plans, and 33 Supporting Documentation. Seems to be a case of if at first you don't succeed drown 'em in paperwork.

Looks like they've switched companies (presumably having shot the previous ones for failure) and now all the artists renditions and site plans are in full glorious colour. At first glance they don't actually look any different from the previous ones, actually at second glance they don't seem that different. The sop of a bridge over the Stour extending the by-pass by a fraction (which will only coincidentally benefit the store) is still there; as is the hilarious Severn Road splitter allowing pedestrian access into town via Mitton Street and to Lichfield Street.

Let's recap Mitton Street's pavement at it's widest point.
Lichfield Street the other pedestrian route the pavement is not shown here, but runs down the left.
The current state of Severn Road

So still no resolution as to how traffic will be getting out of Severn Road (not their problem), how people are expected to negotiate the narrow pavements from the town to store or vice versa (not their problem) or the fact that this store is physically separated from the main town stores rather then adjoined directly to it thus possibly leading to people simply stopping straight at the new store (entering from the store side) or driving past the town to get to it (from the town side); not their problem.

From the Shuttle we seem to get that this is "to prevent people driving out of Stourport", which is a fine sentiment except for the bit where they'll be driving into the new store instead past all of the established stores.

Now what I'd like to see is figures that show transfer rate for Kidderminster, how many people shopping at that Tesco's have just or are about to do some shopping in the town itself. The distances and hassles of driving and walking are on a par so itll be a good comparision. Does that store bring people into the town, if it does it's a good argument for Tesco. Hmm do I fancy scouring 33 PDF documents; no not right now, maybe later.