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Get your free copy07 March 2011, 22:08 PM
- A £70million development could see customers not visiting Ipswich town and heading straight to the new edge-of-centre area
The Ipswich Central partnership who protested the project has spoken out on the new town developments by suggesting that shoppers would not stay central and instead go straight to the new superstore.
A local blogger on the Evening Star website expresses their concern, “We don’t need any more superstores in Ipswich. As it is we have two Asda’s, three Sainsbury’s, a Morrisons, a Tesco and lost count how many Tesco express, Co-Ops, Aldi and Lidl stores. So why build another store, with all the empty stores in town?”
The construction work is starting this year and the store could be open as early as 2012.
Holly Harris, shop assistant for St Nicholas Stores in Ipswich is trying to see the positive. “Our direction has changed since we first opened in January, and we now specialise in offering upmarket sandwiches, fresh cakes and lunch items. We therefore aren’t worried because we are offering a different kind of product from Tesco and the big stores. In fact we may see an increase in footfall because customers may be encouraged to walk through the thoroughfare on-route to the store.”
