Pickering’s County Councillor, Greg White, has called for retailer Lidl, Ryedale District Council, and the Highways Authority to get together and sort out a workable solution, which gives the town both an improved junction and a new supermarket at Vivis Lane.
In a letter to the planning department, Cllr White says that a new supermarket is likely to have a significant beneficial effect for the local community, providing greater choice, lower prices and a reduced need to travel. However he also argues that the current proposal, which risks further congestion and a blight on future development in the town’s centre, is too much of a gamble.
Cllr White believes that the Highways Authority could use some of the additional eighteen million pounds it expects to receive for highway improvements, along with a contribution from Ryedale District Council, to straighten the junction. "The supermarket could then be built just fifty yards further down Vivis Lane, where there are two adjacent plots belonging to Ryedale and the County Council which, taken together, provide a larger area than is currently owned by Lidl and would surely make a better site for their supermarket."
In a letter to the planning department, Cllr White says that a new supermarket is likely to have a significant beneficial effect for the local community, providing greater choice, lower prices and a reduced need to travel. However he also argues that the current proposal, which risks further congestion and a blight on future development in the town’s centre, is too much of a gamble.
Cllr White believes that the Highways Authority could use some of the additional eighteen million pounds it expects to receive for highway improvements, along with a contribution from Ryedale District Council, to straighten the junction. "The supermarket could then be built just fifty yards further down Vivis Lane, where there are two adjacent plots belonging to Ryedale and the County Council which, taken together, provide a larger area than is currently owned by Lidl and would surely make a better site for their supermarket."
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