Keep Ulverston Special

Latest: You have until 31 MARCH 2013 to say no to a Brewery superstore!

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Ulverston’s local economy and independent character are threatened by two new superstores. We need your help!

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Sainsbury’s have put in a planning application to build a superstore with a garage, cafe and car wash, on green fields next to the A590. The proposed store would be twice as big as the Council’s recent retail assessment said the town could cope with. At the same time, Robinsons Brewery want to build a supermarket on their site near the town centre.

If this is allowed to happen, the impact on our local traders and suppliers, on local jobs and on our town centre could be devastating. Please help stop it by writing to the council now to object.

Neither of these stores would benefit our town. Instead, they would:

  • Threaten the existence of over half of the town’s independent retailers
  • Destroy good quality local jobs as local retailers and suppliers close
  • Divert money from the local economy into the tills of a big chain store which will not support local suppliers
  • Fly in the face of our Local Plan, and national planning guidance

Visit the facts page to find out more about what’s happening and what these developments will do to our community. If you want to help us oppose this attack on our town, please act now to help Keep Ulverston Special.

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