After all the brave talk attributed to sections of Swansea Council's planning committee, the news is that councillors rolled over yesterday by approving both an ASDA and a Lidl supermarket in Gorseinon, a small conurbation on the city's outskirts.
What effect the development has on the wider economy remains to be seen - although some suggest that it will decimate the local High Street (as did city planners until quite recently). But the interim message that the decision delivers with resounding clarity is that rhetoric about protecting the city centre and sustaining regional shopping centres is disposable when the chance comes around to fill a few pockets by selling off land to out-of-town retailers.
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The ASDA supermarket will bring jobs and be a boost to Gorseinon. This is just Labour sour grapes.
Jobs which will be offset by the closure of somerfield, for starters. And maybe VB can tell us where the £11.5 million from the land sales of a key local asset is going - back into the town?
Draig makes a valid point. The ASDA deal is a land grab, plain and simple. Swansea Administration cronies hang your heads in shame.
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