Tesco hope to move into Mill Road, Cambridge. The over whelming majority of residents and local traders absolutely do not want this to happen.
The campaign against Tesco has well and truly begun
The campaign against Tesco has well and truly begun
Tesco want to move in here
Tesco. On MILL ROAD??!
The rumours that supermarket giant Tesco are planning to open a store on Mill Road are now confirmed with Tesco putting in planning applications for a plant, atm and signage at the old Wilco site.
The applications were submitted by Tesco in July but are currently "invalid" - that is to say, there was some problem with the application (possibly some essential information missing). The City council informed Tesco on the 31st July that the application was invalid and invited them to resubmit. They have heard nothing from Tesco since.
Mill Road is an extraordinary street on which it is possible to drink Arabic coffee or fine wines; where you can worship in a Mosque, a Hindu shrine or a Baptist church; where you can eat foie gras or fish and chips, tom yum or chicken tikka lababda; where you can stock up on herbs and spices from aam to zedoary.
Alternatively, the mega-chains create a one size fits all version of the world. Suffocating creativity and diversity where ever they go. Britain’s biggest supermarkets present a united front to ensure they’ve stitched up farmers, their workers and customers.
Tesco already controls over 30% of the UK’s grocery market, they don’t need to come here, and we don’t want them. We need to stop Mill Road becoming like every other street in the country.
Please consider joining the campaign, and come along to the open organising meeting. Let’s keep Tesco off Mill Road.
Thursday 27th Sept: 7 pm: Libra Aries bookshop (9 The Broadway, Mill Road)
Resources:
Leaflet for the meeting
Front:
http://www.mediafire.com/?emvabzz9gi0
Back (doubles as poster): http://www.mediafire.com/?4x9dnkiqdfm
http://www.tescopoly.org
http://www.mill-road.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tescopoly-How-Shop-Came-Matters/dp/1845295110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tescopoly
How to Oppose a Supermarket Planning Application
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/campaigning_against_supermarkets.pdf
Face book groups
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5958441803
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6009592789
Artciles:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=408779&in_page_id=2
http://bickerstaffe.blogspot.com/2007/05/tescopoly.html
http://jimjay.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-i-came-to-love-petit-bourgeois.html
http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/09/beware-blandishments-of-tescopolist.html
http://updatebysms.blogspot.com/2005/11/tescopoly.html
The old Wilco site should be used to boost the local community not turn it into another identikit street. Tesco, keep your hands off Mill Road. It's unique - and we're going to fight to keep it that way.
The rumours that supermarket giant Tesco are planning to open a store on Mill Road are now confirmed with Tesco putting in planning applications for a plant, atm and signage at the old Wilco site.
The applications were submitted by Tesco in July but are currently "invalid" - that is to say, there was some problem with the application (possibly some essential information missing). The City council informed Tesco on the 31st July that the application was invalid and invited them to resubmit. They have heard nothing from Tesco since.
Mill Road is an extraordinary street on which it is possible to drink Arabic coffee or fine wines; where you can worship in a Mosque, a Hindu shrine or a Baptist church; where you can eat foie gras or fish and chips, tom yum or chicken tikka lababda; where you can stock up on herbs and spices from aam to zedoary.
Alternatively, the mega-chains create a one size fits all version of the world. Suffocating creativity and diversity where ever they go. Britain’s biggest supermarkets present a united front to ensure they’ve stitched up farmers, their workers and customers.
Tesco already controls over 30% of the UK’s grocery market, they don’t need to come here, and we don’t want them. We need to stop Mill Road becoming like every other street in the country.
Please consider joining the campaign, and come along to the open organising meeting. Let’s keep Tesco off Mill Road.
Thursday 27th Sept: 7 pm: Libra Aries bookshop (9 The Broadway, Mill Road)
Resources:
Leaflet for the meeting
Front:
http://www.mediafire.com/?emvabzz9gi0 Back (doubles as poster):
http://www.mediafire.com/?4x9dnkiqdfm http://www.tescopoly.org http://www.mill-road.com http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tescopoly-How-Shop-Came-Matters/dp/1845295110 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tescopoly How to Oppose a Supermarket Planning Application
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/campaigning_against_supermarkets.pdf Face book groups
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5958441803 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6009592789 Artciles:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=408779&in_page_id=2 http://bickerstaffe.blogspot.com/2007/05/tescopoly.html http://jimjay.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-i-came-to-love-petit-bourgeois.html http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/09/beware-blandishments-of-tescopolist.html http://updatebysms.blogspot.com/2005/11/tescopoly.html The old Wilco site should be used to boost the local community not turn it into another identikit street. Tesco, keep your hands off Mill Road. It's unique - and we're going to fight to keep it that way.
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miaow!
24.09.2007 16:27
Jim Jay
Latest leaflet
29.09.2007 14:02
feel free to distribute in the area
Jim Jay
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Main website now set up - www.nomillroadtesco.org
30.09.2007 16:02
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