Name: Administrator Date: 31/05/3007 10:41:56 Message: Note: Personal insults on this board are NOT allowed and will be deleted. If anybody sees a comment that is completely off topic or deliberately insulting to another poster please email: matthew.bowden@ypn.co.uk and it will be swiftly removed. Thank you.

Name: Fortherington Smythe III Date: 03/02/2012 16:41:17 Message: Good Day Sirs & Ladies I'm terribly posh and think the Tesco development would be spiffing. Must dash, meeting Charles for a twilight round and a few in the 19th hole. Tally Ho

Name: Ashley Date: 28/01/2012 20:08:39 Message: one word! brilliant

Name: Brian Etchells Date: 05/12/2011 18:56:33 Message: It is just not needed

Name: Alan Middlebrook Date: 28/11/2011 20:59:49 Message: Tesco will give the existing superstores more competition this must be good for all customers,I can't wait for the opening.

Name: Sarah Date: 22/11/2011 15:22:54 Message: Tesco will bring many jobs into the area for local residents, and bring cheaper produce for all of us. Yes, the area around Jennyfields will be a little more congested but there are other routes to cross the town centre. This is the 21st century, we need modern supermarkets to provide for our community.

Name: F. G. Walker Date: 30/10/2011 11:21:01 Message: I lived on Electric Ave for 22 years and in Hgte all my life. The site chosen is the worst possible, even supposing the town needed another supermarket. Access from side roads on to the A59 will require traffic lights especially Crowberry Drive which is already a cut off to the town centre. Lots of people in adjacent villages at present shop in Ripon to avoid Harrogate traffic, what will happen if all these travel down the A59 as well? Purgatory! Electric Ave will become a car park. As for the bribes!

Name: Nick Pawley Date: 13/10/2011 17:34:34 Message: I live on Glendowne Terrace, right next to where it's going to be. I cannot see what the fuss is about. Let them do it, it is a horrible site at the moment, reminds of 1970s Russia.

Name: a.snob Date: 09/10/2011 23:34:29 Message: very pleased it wasnt a netto,would have had to move to follyfoot

Name: Hiding Date: 04/10/2011 18:46:07 Message: Ooh no!! This town is much too POWSH to have a Tescau! Get on with it. Yes! please! this is great, we need a Tesco Thank you.

Name: juliette . w Date: 26/09/2011 10:59:41 Message: To maria - w.g you are absolutely correct! and the trouble with the residents here is that they CANNOT get over it nor themselves that they live in a town! which is no different than any other town, and here they are thinking it's the cotswolds. Laughable. We need a Tesco to be brought up to date with the times.

Name: Maria Wappett-Grusd Date: 24/09/2011 15:33:48 Message: All this hype for nothing! Tourists go to visit Knaresborough... not Harrogate! Get over it people, deary me! It's fantastic for Harrogate... wish people would consider the bigger picture...

Name: Mrs S. Date: 21/09/2011 18:30:37 Message: Funny, I live on Electric ave and I'm very much for this Tesco. It will save me having to make a 25min dreaded car trail to ASDA! The reason it takes a ridiculous amount of time to get there is because of the CONTINUING TRAFFIC CONGESTION AS IT IS NOW. I can get to Morrisons in Ripon in less time it takes me to drive to ASDA here which is just over 2 miles. It's a joke!. The traffic will not alter when Tesco gets here it'll be the same as is now. Nightmare.

Name: Richard Wilkins Date: 21/09/2011 14:46:20 Message: I forgot to mention that any appeal letters referred to in my last posting have to be received before 4 October 2011.

Name: Richard Wilkins Date: 21/09/2011 14:35:58 Message: Rosemary Carnaghan, a resident of Harrogate helpfully wrote a letter to the Advertiser explaining that the organisation to write to in order to ask for the Application to be called in by the Secretary of State is as follows: National Planning Casework Unit 5 St Philips Place Colmore Row Birmingham B3 2PW Mark your letter with the following: Tesco Out of Town Superstore Harrogate Harrogate Borough Council Ref: 6.79.7518.C FULMAJ Application Case No. 09/02704/FULMAJ Rosemary made a lot of valid points in her letter that she has included in her appeal and I have written supporting her appeal and adding a few more relevant objections including the fact that 20 Electric Avenue residents have objected to the development (but their concerns do not appear unfortunately to be troubling the Planning Committee).

Name: RotherhamLass Date: 21/09/2011 12:09:53 Message: I think you should write to the councillors that voted for it and tell them what you think of them. Better still, email them. I bet none of them live next door to this new Tesco!

Name: New Park Date: 20/09/2011 17:45:44 Message: Can I appeal to all those NOT IN FAVOUR to appeal this decision and write in to the secretary of state for communities, Eric Pickles. Nothing will happen if we don't join forces and make our voices heard. £1.5 million fountains... bribes..congestion...LET'S PUT A STOP TO THIS WHILE WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE!!

Name: electric avenue resident Date: 20/09/2011 17:33:07 Message: please people spare a thought for those who will have to look at this monstrosity morning noon and night! no one from tescos has ever consulted residents DIRECTLY affected by these plans. the emphasis is on pushing plans through NOT genuinely understanding and addressing concerns of electric avenue residents. i can't sell my house now and when it's built i'll probably lose about £20 grand...not very happy!!

Name: james Date: 20/09/2011 00:06:42 Message: Visitors value town centre shopping? Is that why all major yorkshire cities (ie) Sheffield and Leeds get 25 million + visitors annually?That was a recent poll. And York do better than here. I've yet to see this town thrive with shoppers, because in all the years I've lived here I've never seen it busy once. And am I bothered? Not at all because people will shop where they choose, it's a free country.

Name: Grumpy Date: 19/09/2011 17:10:12 Message: Well, whatever someone's preference for shopping, the fact remains that the economy of Harrogate depends on visitors. They bring in the money to pay for services and we don't have anything else that would - without them the town would fail economically. In all of the surveys done on tourism, it is perfectly clear that visitors value town centre shopping. And they are not that keen on gridlock either. So I am voting against.

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