Sunday 10 June 2012

ASDA - Pre-Planning Consultation

Following a question at Marple Area Committee last Wednesday, we now know that ASDA have started Pre-Planning Application discussions with Stockport MBC Planning Department. Prospective developers are permitted to seek advice from the Council before submitting an application in order to:
  • Understand how policies and guidance will be applied to the development 
  • Identify at an early stage where there is a need for specialist input,
  • Save money in working up proposals, identifying potential problems and sorting them our before an application is submitted (this quickens up the planning application process)
  • Indicate if a planning proposal is completely unacceptable.
ASDA may have gone quiet but they certainly have not gone away. Lets hope that when Stockport MBC tell them that a supermarket on Hibbert Lane is unacceptable because it contravenes planning policy, ASDA decide not to pursue their application.

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