Hello. I live in HOP. I've followed this debate and still cannot begin to get my head round why anyone would want to preserve the right of the absolutely dreadful grocery stores on the parade to sell their yellowing, non-fresh, overpriced food. There is nowhere to buy any vegetables after 7pm! Or any proper bread! I've lived in four london boroughs. Every other high street from shepherds bush to wandsworth has a proper late night shop with ideally a free cash machine. It is a Good Thing. This is what the world can offer you now.

Mainly though the shops down there are empty. There are two empty curry houses here back to back - plus you haven't got any fresh fruit in the fridge! why would you not want someone to come in and solve both these problems in one go? Is there some kind of peculiar inverted snobbery I'm missing? Is it a blanket and unquestioning anti-corporation thing? It just seems totally self-defeating. Roll on Sainsbury's. Embrace the new world. Buy some fresh tomatoes at 9.30pm.