Do we need another supermarket?
Hands up who likes standing in queues, being barged by trolleys never finding anywhere to park and always trying to find where the sugar has been moved to. I don’t see many hands up. So maybe we could do with another supermarket? We are the largest population centre in Cornwall so there are a fair few of us all using the two major supermarkets at any one time. When summer comes round and Cornwall swells up then trying to go shopping is an even worse nightmare, so I certainly think we could do with another supermarket and I have to say I’m pretty glad that it’s Sainsburys; I just find its location a bit odd. Surely we have enough old industrial land to be able to house a shopping village the size of the one they’re proposing rather than tearing up those lovely fields on the drive out of St Austell? I’m also not certain why anyone thinks the west of St Austell, where very few people live, is a good idea. To compound the issue, they are going to build a Waitrose to the east of Truro, again on lovely rolling fields where no one lives. I’m really not sure how all the people traveling from Threemilestone across Truro or from Par along the bypass to get to these new supermarkets will help alleviate traffic congestion. In fact you’d be hard pressed to think of two worse bottle necks in Cornwall.