And your point is? Personally I couldn't care less if the traffic on the south circular is disturbed by Morrisons deliveries - as opposed to any other shop getting deliveries.

Sorry, but this suggestion as I said before is laughable. There is no way in the world that Morrisons opening a convenience store is going to add to any supposed alcohol problems in the area.

What right does an independent store have to my business that they can't stand a bit of competition. Maybe by being better. The butchers will continue to exist as it offers a superior product that's worth paying the extra for but if you are referring to one of the current 'convenience' stores along Dartmouth Road, well I don't frequent them at the moment as they are pokey little shops that don't attract me in at all.

I agree with you entirely. If you don't want to use the store don't. It's your money, spend it where you like.

I personally would prefer something other than Morrisons here. I certainly won't be using it. I think it's a pretty shabby supermarket and I'll continue to buy my meat at the butchers, get my fruit & veg delivered by Abel & Cole and probably will continue to use Sainsburys.

However, I'm not willing to put my own capital into opening the sort of shop that I would like to see so if someone else is (privately or corporately) then best of luck to them.

My complaints in this thread are about the pretense that this is about planning and other issues when it's probably about Morrisons not fitting in with peoples ideas as to what they would like to see in the area. Especially if they then claim to represent all the people of the area as opposed to a few individuals chatting on a forum and put together a petition on in my view very shaky grounds.