By Geoff Fisher There is no need for another convenience store in Reepham? The other businesses in the town would be adversely affected? Really?
When I first came to live in Reepham, in the late 1970s, there were six general grocery stores, two butchers shops, two hardware stores, plus Randall’s, which also sold electrical and white goods, a drugstore, a post office, a newsagents, a drapers, a clockmaker and a mobile greengrocery business.
All to serve a population of less than 2,000 people. All co-existing without problems; all thriving.
How can some of your correspondents justify their claim that the present businesses in Reepham are: a) sufficient for the needs of the now enormously expanded population, and b) could possibly provide for even greater numbers if the proposed new housing is completed?
Judging by the number of Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, etc. delivery vans I see coming into Reepham each day, a large proportion of residents clearly don’t appear to agree that local shopping provision meets their needs.
We definitely do need a new supermarket with a more comprehensive range, quality, value and price of food products.
Hilary Gostling, Bircham Road, Reepham
Geoff Fisher