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Village fights off Waitrose
by Ed Beavan
A VILLAGE CHURCH in Cheshire has been in the forefront of a successful campaign against a new supermarket. Parishioners at All Saints’, Hale Barns, near Altrincham, celebrated this week after a plan for a large supermarket development was rejected. The plan would have brought a Waitrose supermarket, 14 shops, and 51 flats to the village, which has a population of 4500. “It was not a question of ‘not in my backyard’, but ‘my backyard isn’t big enough,’” said the Revd Robert Hinton, Vicar of All Saints’. He said the campaign had united the village, which has a large Jewish population. “The community came together — Christians, Jews, and Muslims — and between us we sent 900 letters of objection and raised £60,000 to employ a professional team, with a planning and traffic consultant and barrister to represent the village at the public inquiry.” Mr Hinton said people would still consider more modest development proposals. |
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