Majority of residents do not want supermarket on the pier
Published 19 Jan 2012 14:00
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SAINSBURY'S vision of how their supermarket might look on the pierhead.
Community council survey shows 69 per cent against
THE council is being asked to go back to the drawing board after a survey revealed that the majority of residents do not want a supermarket on the pier.
Helensburgh Community Council (HCC) conducted its own survey at Argyll and Bute Council's bustling masterplan open days at the Victoria Hall on Friday and Saturday.
A total of 416 people - 69 per cent of those surveyed - said they did not want a supermarket on the pier, snubbing both of the options presented by the council at the open days.
The two council options both suggested supermarkets on the site.
However, the council has openly stated that if no supermarket was allowed on the pier, the building of a new pool and leisure facility on any site would become "unachievable in this decade" as the marketability of the council-owned site would be severely compromised.
Out of the 603 people who responded to HCC's survey, 21 per cent favoured a supermarket, leisure centre, shops and flats on the land and 10 per cent preferred a supermarket, cafe, shops and flats, with the leisure centre going on the former Hermitage Academy site.
HCC told the Advertiser that while there was strong support for a new leisure centre on the pier, there was a clear majority against a supermarket there.
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This article appeared in Helensburgh Advertiser 19 Jan 12
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