Of course, I use supermarkets like everyone else, like this one up the road at Green Lanes in north London, but a minor war has waged closer to home where there a planning application has been made to build one in a street of small, quirky independent shops that give our locality its distinct flavour.
The campaign has already won concessions - there will now be no customer car park, for instance - but the planned store would still be out of scale and out of place. The big supermarkets seem to get whatever they want, and we the people shouldn't be steamrollered. But I can't help thinking that perhaps I'm just turning into a middle-aged, grumpy, Nimby.
Which part of Green Lanes is this - it's one heck of a long road!
ReplyDeleteYou're right. It's the Sainsbury's near Finsbury Park.
ReplyDeleteI miss the small stores we have in the UK. I am looking forward to walking down Rochester High Street in April when I visit as you just don't get small stores in TX.
ReplyDeleteLovely drawing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rene.
ReplyDeleteVery inspiring.
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