Overview
- Tesco confirmed it will not progress its planning application for a Timpson key-cutting and repair unit in Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire.
- The company pulled the proposal before a parish council discussion, without attributing the move to public pressure.
- A resident-led petition launched by Gemma Surman gathered more than 1,000 signatures opposing the outlet.
- Around 80 formal objections were filed, citing risks to small high-street traders and the independent cobbler opposite the site.
- Cobbler Alan Macdonald, in business locally since 1995 with family roots in the trade since the 1930s, warned even a small income loss could imperil his shop.