The takeaway from this article is that Sainsbury’s hasn’t taken off in Ludlow. It is only trading at 60% of the company benchmark for that size of store. M&S Food will be a head to head competitor. If M&S opens, Sainsbury’s will lose more trade. If the analysts are correct, it will then be trading […]
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A Movement Strategy for Ludlow: Gazetteer of recommendations
This article is a list of the recommendations made by Shropshire Council’s Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan for Ludlow (LCWIP) along with my additional proposals. For most LCWIP proposals, I comment on whether I support them or not. For some, I make no comment in this gazetteer because my opinion doesn’t boil down to […]
Introducing a Movement Strategy for Ludlow
Over the last couple of months, we have been discussing proposals put forward by Shropshire Council for walking and cycling in Ludlow. This was an uneasy process based on a technical report known as LCWIP. We saw a lot of controversy, even anger, about proposals for improving walking and cycling around Ludlow. Proposals to reduce […]
Plans for M&S Food and for 200 homes in Ludlow withdrawn – they’ll be back
Shropshire Council has changed the way it deals with planning applications that become long in the tooth before being decided. Last Friday, two applications of significance to Ludlow looked to have been scrapped. That’s not the case. A planning application for 215 homes squeezed between the A49 and Bromfield Road has been in the planning […]
National Highways put the brake on M&S Food store application
National Highways, the body that owns the major routes across England including the A49, has said that a decision on planning permission for the proposed M&S Food store alongside the A49 should be delayed by at least three months (22/05682/FUL). The objection is a legal brake on the development plans, which cannot progress until National […]