Today Tom Woodcock; Secretary of the Cambridge District Trades Union Council, spoke about some of the many campaigns he has been involved with and the one that interested me the most was No Mill Road Tescos.
The Campaign was about a Tescos being built down road. Mill Road is a multi-cultural Road with many inspirations from different countries and religions. Many people who are living or support the campaign idea went around to find as many people to support their view that there should be no Tescos down Mill Road, They got nearly five thousands signatures on a petition to support the campaign. The campaigners put so much effort into trying to stop this from happening to Mill Roads small businesses, They few things they did succeed in was making sure tescos use no large lorries to import goods and they were to use small vans due to the large lorries blocking the narrow Mill Road. Also they made sure Tescos didn't sell any alcohol due to the reasons as some other businesses arent aloud a liscence so why should Tescos.
Here is some more information i copied from, http://www.nomillroadtesco.org/
Tesco's 14th store in the Cambridge area is in Mill Road, Cambridge, one of Cambridge’s most cosmopolitan areas. The No Mill Road Tesco Campaign was set up to oppose these plans, and kept Mill Road Tesco-free for almost two years. Over 5,000 people signed our on-street petition and 1,000 objected to its planning applications. Tesco lost 3 planning applications, an alcohol license application and a public enquiry, leaving it with one of its smallest stores in the UK that it will have extreme difficulty in delivering to. The opening of the store brings the campaign into a second phase: ever-more active support for local traders, and making sure that any breach of planning condition or public safety results in Council action.
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