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Well done, thank you and what’s next? I was delighted to hear the news that ‘Tesco respect the democratic planning process and have decided not to appeal against the planning decision’ and that they have stated that ‘they are currently considering alternative options for the site and look forward to discussing this with the council and community’. My WELL DONE is to all of the hundreds of you in Hadleigh and the villages for supporting us throughout this long campaign. You have repeatedly responded to the call to write yet again to Babergh and your Councillors identifying your concerns and all of the very practical reasons why a supermarket was not suitable on that site, and you turned out and enjoyed the demonstrations. All of our local work held Tesco off from the first application in 1998 and the following government Inspectorate Inquiry, until the 2011 application, and as you know we then felt after that we had been put into the position where Babergh took no notice of the electorate and we could no longer fight the campaign on our own. For this last application we had to resort to using the professionals. We were very fortunate in receiving some extremely large donations from a local business and a local resident, plus other donations to the Hadleigh Society Campaign Fund that enabled us to fund the campaign. I am particularly thankful to Andrew Cann of Cicero Communications who organised the
speakers, wrote much of the final documentation, arranged all of the meetings and kept Hands Off Hadleigh totally involved so that it was still our campaign. I am well aware that it is dangerous to pick out one individual to thank but Andrew led us to this outcome. I will add another personal thank you to Bryan Haylock of the Idler who always managed to come up with our posters. Thanks Bryan, and thanks again to you all. And so to WHAT’S NEXT? Firstly in whatever we think would be right for the site we need to remember that Tesco only own two and a bit acres that were the grounds of what was the Manor of Hadleigh Hall and has been in Industrial use for some 700 years. The rest of the land involved in the Tesco application is in five parts, the Babergh Car Park, Town Council Allotments and three private individuals, and, all of it has limited access. ...Continued on page 5
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