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Gazette Comment

SO Tesco is still coming to town? So they keep telling us but is it not about time we saw some tangible action in the ongoing saga of Dursley's new supermarket?

The Gazette was told last summer that Stroud District Council was definitely expecting a planning application by the end of last year.

Yet still we wait. But it is fine because we have again been told Tesco is committed to coming to Dursley.

That is as maybe but when? It is all very well blaming a complex web of planning issues, but townspeople are beginning to think they are, again, being overlooked.

It would seem what is needed here is less talking and more action. If Tesco does want to bring a supermarket to the town, the company should illustrate its commitment by making some sort of progress on the site. If there is not going to be a store, then make way for something else on the site.

We report this week that a timetable leading up to the opening of the supermarket is being drawn up. We hope planners have plenty of reams of paper, as, judging by the history of this much-hyped development, this one is going to be an epic.