Store in hot water over openings slip (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Planners' approval was needed before Queensbury supermarket extended Sunday hours
11:00am Saturday 4th August 2012 in Bradford
By Jo Winrow, City Hall Reporter
OOPS: The Tesco’s store at Queensbury
Supermarket Tesco has made an Olympic blunder over relaxed Sunday trading opening hours at one of its stores in the district.
The company has taken advantage of the temporary suspension of normal Sunday trading restrictions which are in place throughout the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. This allows large stores, which are usually restricted to opening for six hours on a Sunday, to open for longer from July 22 through to September 9.
In most cases planning permission is not needed, but in some circumstances, such as at the Queensbury store on Brighouse Road, planning conditions limit Sunday trading to between 10am and 4pm. As a result the company submitted a bid to Bradford Council to change the condition temporarily at the beginning of last month, but despite no decision having been made, the Queensbury story is now opening for 11 hours on Sundays from 9am to 8pm.
But due to the deadline for public consultation, the earliest the application could be approved is August 20, eight days after the Olympic closing ceremony.
In the application Tesco admits: “In most cases, planning permission is not needed to vary the opening hours on Sunday: conditions on Sunday trading are not normally imposed as they would duplicate the provisions in The Sunday Trading Act.
However, in some instances, stores are also subject to planning conditions limiting Sunday trading. In these circumstances, it is necessary to seek a temporary relaxation of the condition.”
In the case of the Queensbury store, which was granted planning permission in 2009, permission to vary the condition that currently restricts the trading hours would be required to allow a temporary change until after the Olympics and Paralymics.
A Bradford Council spokesman said: “We were surprised to hear Tesco’s had extended their Sunday opening hours before their application to temporarily open for longer on Sundays during the Olympics and Paralympics had been determined.”
Comments(18)
cibasteve
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11:42am Sat 4 Aug 12
a reasonable sort of chap
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11:56am Sat 4 Aug 12
citizen smith
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11:56am Sat 4 Aug 12
Son of Bradford
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12:13pm Sat 4 Aug 12
I am awaiting for Cllr Wall's to make his usual comment.
We also see 'the council', led by the Chief Executive,doing its usual act - stimulating business development.
If you wish to see the success of the store just look at the footfall.
Joedavid
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1:27pm Sat 4 Aug 12
BertSanders
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2:14pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Tesco only opens if there is a need and it suits them, and without customers it will not..
GC BD4
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3:06pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Mike Strutter
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8:42pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Son of Bradford wrote:Footfall ?
Here we go again - kick Queensbury Tesco.
I am awaiting for Cllr Wall's to make his usual comment.
We also see 'the council', led by the Chief Executive,doing its usual act - stimulating business development.
If you wish to see the success of the store just look at the footfall.
When do you go in because when I have been its usually dead and that's at peak hours !
Too many staff standing around and too few customers
Mike Strutter
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8:45pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Joedavid wrote:I have little time for Tesco but to be fair it's got to only be Bradford council that can take until after 20 th August to make a decision. Talk about red tape
So will they only open 6 hours tomorrow, or break laws and regulations like others in this City?
Mike Strutter
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8:47pm Sat 4 Aug 12
GC BD4 wrote:Exactly !
if the government relaxed the opening hours then why should you have to apply for planning permission from local government ' red tape or what '
stevion12
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9:25pm Sat 4 Aug 12
stevion12
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9:25pm Sat 4 Aug 12
i hate bradford
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12:40pm Sun 5 Aug 12
It is Bradford councils own inadequacies in dealing with the illegal tradex place that is causing a large kickback from our legal traders.
Bend the rules for one and reap what you sow!!
Yorkshire Lass
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12:50pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Mike Strutter
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7:38pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Apollo
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7:44pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Mike Strutter wrote:Nothing. It would be clear racial discrimination as the Council has done nothing for months about the illegal Asian bazaar. This is what the Council have done by their own inaction.
Well it'd open now as I type so are they trading illegally or not ? If they are then what is going to happen about it ?
JWP
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12:52pm Mon 6 Aug 12
You must be from another planet.
They will tell you anything and tread on local communities to get their grubby hands on your money.
There is a saying used by more and more folk round our way nowadays. When asked "where do you go shopping"
The reply is "ABT"
Do I have to spell it out ?
Albion. says...
11:12am Sat 4 Aug 12