Robert Lloyd - a Sir Gar Blog of random news . . . and some Clecs!

The following letter has been sent by the team from 'Transition Town Llandeilo' to the Carmarthen Journal as part of the continued debate about the planned Sainsbury's supermarket in the Tywi Valley town - We, of Transition Town/Tref Trawsnewid Llandeilo welcome Llandeilo Town Council’s initiative in calling a public meeting on October 5 to discuss the Sainsbury’s proposal to build one of its stores on the outskirts of the town. We are pleased to discover that Sainsbury’s appears now to have reversed its earlier refusal to attend such public events. As the Carmarthen Journal’s letter page records, the proposed supermarket has stimulated a broad range of opinions and it is right that they should all receive a fair hearing. This was our motivation in organising the first event, which crammed the meeting room in August and spawned the Save Llandeilo’s Future campaign group. The Transition initiative is a rapidly growing worldwide network of local communities started just five ...

It's the big debate in Llandeilo - Sainsbury's : Yes or No? Now there's a public meeting on the horizon as the arguments for and against Sainsbury's building a supermarket in Llandeilo gather momentum. I am grateful to Gerry Gold, of Transition Town Llandeilo, for the following information on a public meeting which is being billed as - The first assembly of the people of Llandeilo and the Towy Valley. It is being held at 7:30 pm on Thursday July 21 upstairs at The Angel, Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo. Sainsbury's planning application for its proposed new supermarket on the A40 just outside Llandeilo was submitted on July 4. The deadline for comments is July 25. Sainsbury’s say that 600 of the 800 people who visited their brief exhibition in Rhosmaen Street are in favour of their plans for a new supermarket, but the exhibition and associated publicity didn’t address many of the questions people have been asking. JBP, Sainsbury’s PR company, say ‘public meetings are neve...