Over 3000 people sign petition opposing Helensburgh waterfront supermaket

dailyrecord.co.uk:

More than 3000 people have signed a petition against the siting of a supermarket on Helensburgh’s waterfront. The online petition set up by the town’s community council claims a retail development would “threaten the livelihoods of local businesses and will ruin the waterfront views we value in our community and that bring many tourists to our town”.

More than 3,200 people have now signed the petition. It comes after Argyll and Bute Council agreed a preferred bidder to deliver the final stage of the multi-million pound waterfront development.

Forrest Development Ltd was named as the preferred bidder for the site in front of the town’s new leisure centre last month, with proposals for retail outlets including a supermarket.

Questions about the plans went unanswered at a public meeting of local councillors – with the promise of written responses from authority officials instead.Around 30 members of the public attended a meeting of the council’s Helensburgh and Lomond area committee recently, where public question time lasted nearly two hours.