Store plan traffic fears
Martin "by Ben Hewes RESIDENTS are angry at plans to build a new discount store in the centre of Leyland. Discount chain Aldi is hoping to buy land in Westgate and transform it into their latest shop. Representatives from the company called a public meeting for locals to reveal their plans." [url="http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/leyland/news/LEYNEWS0.html"]Citizen article[/url]
MartinDoes anyone know which bit of Westgate this is?
noelWonder if it's the hinterland behind the old library? It's very close to Tesco if it is. Then Morrisons are said to be planning a store. I'm going to be broke going from one shop to another ( sorry even more broke). Still with all these assylum seekers coming in we need more shops.
MartinIt could be where the old Labour Club is situated. I thought Aldi had quite large shops and there is a bit of land there at the bottom end of Westgate. Talk about the English being a nation of shopkeepers. Or how about a nation of shoppers? All Leyland needs now is a Claires shop for people like Hayley.
anacortesdampMy sister said that the new ALDI shop is planned for where Leyland Garage had its repair and service facilities right at the top of Westgate and behind the building that used to be the Ford showroom. Frank Damp
noel
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Originally posted by anacortesdamp
My sister said that the new ALDI shop is planned for where Leyland Garage had its repair and service facilities right at the top of Westgate and behind the building that used to be the Ford showroom. Frank Damp
You beat me by 5 seconds there Frank, but yes your sister appears to be correct, her's the bit I snipped. At the meeting Aldi chiefs said they had yet to apply for planning permission from South Ribble Borough Council, and do not own the land, at the junction of Westgate and Towngate -- currently used by a number of businesses including a former petrol station. But they say the landlord is keen to sell and a planning application is likely to be submitted within the next few weeks. If the application is passed, the food chain is hoping to develop the one-acre site into a store employing 14 people, with an 86-space car park. But residents of Westgate say the proposed store -- just yards from a Tesco Extra supermarket built last year -- will result in traffic chaos. And they fear delivery lorries will be unable to get into the store.
MartinOh, that place. I suppose the people who currently work there won't be getting a new lease this time around.
LDunlop76
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Originally posted by noel
But residents of Westgate say the proposed store -- just yards from a Tesco Extra supermarket built last year -- will result in traffic chaos.
There's an Aldi in Wigan just by Asda (is this deliberate policy to hijack the bigger supermarkets' customers?) and, yes, the traffic is chaos! Wigan Asda is being expanded yet again... though goodness knows why. I avoid that area like the plague most of the time as the traffic jams are awful.
dedwardsaD,you know, I was only saying the other day that what Leyland needs is a new cut-price supermarket... On the bright side, we desperately need another taxi-rank, too, and if we're really honest about it, a pit-stop between Tesco and McDonalds will be very useful for the pimply youths teara*sing round in beaten up old Novas with blue pin-point lights on them! Sounds like a grreat idea :(
CarolineOh dear, my aged parents live just off Westgate....... I've wondered several times if all this construction of what are essentially out-of-town complexes is leading up to some sort of massive new road system through the centre of town, needed to feed the commerces?? And might this mean that there'll be more destruction of what little remains of 'older Leyland' ? Let us not forget, also, that there will be profit to be made by those with vested interests - landowners, demolition and construction companies.........or just call me cynical.
dedwardsaThe last I heard from one of the traders, Chapel Brow was being considered for one-way traffic... I think there was also a half-baked scheme to turn Hough Lane and King St into a one-way system, but that might have died a death. I think the next stage will have to be a "Towngate relief route" - a dual carriage way along Balcarres Rd from the Eagle to Turpin Green.
noelI had a phone call today, a market research study. Would I be prepared to use Morrison's if and when they build a new store on Golden Hill Lane. They could well be coming by the sounds of it. I presume it's on the old L&B site.
MartinDid they offer you any freebies Noel?
noel
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Did they offer you any freebies Noel?
Nah, anyway I get all my freebies from Sainsburys B.O.G.O.F .[:)]
RobboForget a taxi rank! We need a bus station like in the new one in Chorley! It would certianly be useful! Ideal location... the waste land next to Tescos on St Andrews Way across from the fitness centre. Leyland should definately have a proper bus station! Hundreds of buses travel to and from Leyland every day! The bus station should be used by all the bus companies. Also Leyland Train Station needs a complete refurbishment! It's got to be the worst railway station in Lancashire!... Even Pleasington, Cherry Tree and Mill Hill stations are better! Look at Euxton Train Station as an example. Also I think they should re-open Midge Hall and make it into a proper station. Call it Leyland Midge Hall. It would be useful for all of those West Leyland towns like Moss Side, Bretherton, Wymott, Ulnes Walton, even Longton and New Longton... Not only that, there is a big industrial estate nearby who's work force would nodoubt use. Also the benefits of a new train station at Hidge Hall wold re-open links with the rest of West Lancashire. Going back to the original topic... Chapel Brow should be made busses only and that should be down the hill leading to the round about only! Chapel Brow/Golden Hill Lane has to be the worst junction/road surface in South Ribble! The poposed changes are long over due!!
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