Stop the supermarket in Bishopbriggs Town Centre Redevelopment
- Target:
- Chief Executive East Dunbartonshire Council
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- cleddensresidents.blogspot.com
Cleddens Residents Group was formed in November 2009 as a direct result of plans for redevelopment of the former Bishopbriggs High School site and the potential impact on our doorstep. We are residents who want to protect the area we live in and represent the views of the community in the area.
East Dunbartonshire council have passed outline planning permission for this development but we believe that most people in Bishopbriggs are unaware of the size of the supermarket and car park in the development.
Audit Scotland recently identified Bishopbriggs Cross as one out of twenty one pollution ‘hotspots’ for bad air quality in Scotland and this is before a new supermarket is to be built. The presence of a large supermarket in the town centre will seriously impact the ability of small, individual retailers to do business there, thus limiting our choice of where to shop. There is likely to be an increase in the number of empty retail units in our town centre. These will become targets for vandals, making the town centre less attractive and less safe for the residents.
The ' village feel' of Bishopbriggs Town Centre, already much reduced in recent years, is in danger of disappearing altogether.
We, the undersigned, strongly object to the inclusion of a large Supermarket and car park in the Bishopbriggs Town centre Redevelopment. The proposed Supermarket, almost double the size of the existing Morrisons and with a 60% increase in car parking spaces, will result in a substantial increase in traffic on the already overloaded, pollution blackspot of Kirkintilloch Road.
In addition, traffic will also increase on the adjacent residential streets which at present serve two Primary Schools, a Childrens Nursery and Sheltered Housing. We believe that Bishopbriggs does not need a larger retail food facility and the consequential increase in traffic and pollution must be avoided.
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The Stop the supermarket in Bishopbriggs Town Centre Redevelopment petition to Chief Executive East Dunbartonshire Council was written by Cleddens Residents Group and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.