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.