Deluge of complaints over Tesco Tolworth plans at council meeting
Tesco’s latest plans to redevelop the old Toby Jug site in Tolworth have been met with more opposition.
Residents and councillors were virtually unanimous in their opposition to a supermarket, hotel, and three blocks of flats plus parking spaces being built. The exhaustive list of objections raised at a south of the borough neighbourhood meeting on Wednesday night included greater pollution, unbearable extra traffic, and that the proposed flats were too tall.
Ann Brown from the Kingston Society called the proposed blocks of flats “quite alien” to the area. A lone voice in support said the development would provide jobs for the area’s unemployed.
Edward Davey, Kingston and Surbiton MP, has also relaunched his Every Little Hurts campaign, based on Tesco’s slogan.
No one representing Tesco spoke during the meeting. The issue is up for discussion again next Wednesday evening at a meeting in Dysart School, ahead of Kingston Council's development control committee’s final decision on Friday, February 7.
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So,what do the people of Tolworth/Sunray etc actually want to see on this site?
Are there any alternative proposals?
How can this site have been undeveloped for 8 or more years when housing is so short and the priority is given to brown land for development?
Because tesco own it and keep on trying to put a totally inappropriate on a site already suffering from traffic convestion and pollution
What do local people want,whatever is built will add to traffic increases,how about allotments?
tram depot
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