Letter: Every little retrospective planning decision helps

Letter: If I read your October 23 report correctly, Tesco was granted conditional permission to operate at Battlefield and has been in breach of the conditions imposed by the Secretary of State since 2004 - six years ago.

The company presumably has traded seven days a week and been in breach of these conditions on each day all that time.

Instead of condoning the arrogance of this company, which has a reputation for breaching planning conditions - it did so in my town - it should be fined a minimum of £1,000 per day.

Two million pounds is drop in the ocean for this multinational company whose annual net profit exceeds the GNP of many third world counties. Certainly Shropshire Council needs the money.

I conclude our representatives, elected or employed, are weak-kneed and have failed the community they claim to serve. I have never shopped at Tesco and never will. I wish to see independent traders flourish. The supermarket chains have driven too many small businesses to the wall.

You will do your readers a service by advising the names of the strategic planning committee which took this indefensible decision.

John Mayne

Bridgnorth