Sainsbury’s have trashed a grass-grazed meadow for an unwanted Sainsbury’s in an area saturated with superstores. Do we need more large supermarkets?
The site a valuable wildlife site, a carbon sink, and it regularly floods. Planning consent should never have been granted.
For a development of this size an Environmental Impact Assessment should have been carried out. None was carried out.
We need drastic reductions in carbon emissions to prevent global temperature rise. We also need to protect and enhance carbon sinks. Sainsbury’s have admitted peat was dug out from the site. Peat is a carbon sink. The peat is also indicative of the site flooding.
Flood plains mitigate downstream flash flooding during periods of heavy rain.
A public footpath running alongside the site was illegally obstructed.
Sainsbury’s when applying for Planning Consent claimed they were improving the environment by constructing ponds. The site is bounded by Sincil Drain and the River Witham.
The construction would have been for balancing ponds, capture run off. Where are these ponds?
Construction of a pedestrian crossing demonstrated the site would be a massive traffic generator.
The pedestrian crossing is a danger to use at night. The bright lights blind to oncoming traffic.
The bypass has generated ten times the amount of traffic that passes through the village. Plus a large number of heavy lorries. We are likely to see ten times again.
Construction was a nightmare for everyone living nearby, noise, dust, mud on the roads. Hedgerows ripped out, trees destroyed.
Sainsbury’s idea of a sick joke, trash a grass-grazed meadow, then sow a few wildflower seeds.
Ferry Lane trashed. No attempt to clear up the mess.
Ferry Lane choc a bloc with parked cars. Staff cars? Staff ordered to park in Ferry Lane not to use the Sainsbury’s car park?
The store is open to ten at night. Why? Waitrose closed at eight. Alcohol License until midnight.
Inside the store is huge. This is not a store for Washingborough. It is to pull traffic in off the by pass, north and south of Lincoln, and through the village from further east.
No Greek yogurt. Fake Greek yogurt. Poor quality bread, even by the poor standard of supermarkets. For bread, an excellent bakery in the village.
No manned checkouts. Two fingers to customers The same contempt for customers as shown to Washingborough.
Would have to look very hard to find the occasional price matched to Aldi. Reasonable to assume everything else is more expensive than Aldi.
At least Aldi and Lidl man the checkouts.
Seven in the evening, heavy flow of traffic onto and off the site. This bodes ill for Washingborough.
Less than ten minutes into town on the bus from Ferry Lane, £3 or free if a bus pass. Coop, Pepperdine’s, fruit and veg stall in the High Street, Fresh from the Fields, Redhill Farm shop, farmers market, lunch, relax with a coffee at Coffee Aroma, Madame Waffle or Vestry Hall.
Or can always shop M&S Food Hall or Waitrose, both in another league to Washingborough Sainsbury’s.
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