We must pull together to secure our town's future
Save Our Retail Trade in Todmorden (SORTT)
MANY of your readers will have noticed a petition I initiated some weeks ago, called SORTIT, which is intended to gather local opinion on a vital issue for our town, that is the very real threat of the potential over intensification, by supermarket development.
Your readers will find copies of this petition at various shops and Market stalls throughout the Town.
We have already witnessed the disastrous affect on footfall in our Town Centre, following the Health Service decision to relocate our heath centre down Halifax Road, imagine the impact of a supermarket alongside it.
Or for that matter, now Netto have bought the Abraham Ormerod Centre, also from the Health Service, there is also a further threat in that direction.
Enough is enough; the economic impact will kill off the last vestiges of our Market Town.
I am determined, as an elected councillor, to oppose such development by whatever means at my disposal, I know that at Ward Forums those in attendance were alerted to this possible development, but we must act.
We need to be positive about our town, it is my earnest wish that this initiative gains cross party support and is not allowed to fall in that oh so familiar political divide.
If anything, that alone will kill off our town.
So, I would encourage your readers to sign the petition wherever it is, but let's not make the mistake of duplication which by definition will only undermine the evidence base.
COUN JULIE STANSFIELD
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