It's been a busy week for Plan B, and I've only just got round to checking it all out.
After the Times and the Telegraph, Hay has been featured in a story in the Guardian. It was about Mary Portas's plans for rejuvenating High Streets, and the present situation in Hay was used as an example.
Hay was front page news in the B&R this week, under the headline "Supermarket Plans Shelved". A delegation from Plan B met with members of the County Council to present two options to them for a new school building. Both options are for a 240 pupil building, with community facilities including a 300 seat hall. It can be built either on the present school site, or on the Forest Road site, and both options have been costed so that no supermarket needs to get involved. The County Council have put their original plans to one side until after the elections on May 3rd, when they will come back to the problem afresh.
One of the local problems that has come up in the debate over supermarkets is the matter of affordable food. It's widely agreed that the Co-op is more expensive than other Co-ops in the area, and there has been some discussion about how to deal with this. If anyone has any bright ideas, Plan B would like to know!
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Put the word around to stop using it. Sure, we'll all miss out for a while until it brings prices down again, but the long term gain will be worth it. Why not start now? It's Lent, after all, so it's a good time to give something up... like going to the Co-op.
The simple answer to affordable food is to buy from the local shops and the Thursday market. You can get far cheaper vegetables from the Thursday market than you can at a supermarket – and a lot of it is locally grown.
Help put a smile on Phil the Fruit's face (it's not THAT difficult) by buying your vegetables from him too. He said to me this morning that if 500 hundred people are turning up at the Plan B meetings, why aren't I seeing them in my shop? He has a good point.
Is that the same Phil the Fruit who was quoted in the Telegraph the other week as being in favour of the supermarket plans...or was he misquoted ?
LOL, misquoted, according to Phil!
Whichever way you look at it the county council should be commended for listening and considering the proposals. There has been a lot of talk of conspiratorial rubber stamping , that it's all a done deal etc - but when it came down to it the county council is considering plan bs proposals .
Let's see what happens - but biting the hand that feeds you leads to resentment . The council are offering plan b a seat at the the table - we shouldn't throw the chair at them .
What better way for Plan B to get an influential seat at the table than for them to run a candidate at the local elections? Go for it, Plan B!
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