Date Set for Crucial Vote

Ainscough Strategic Land have applied for outline planning permission to build a supermarket on the land off Campden Road on the edge of town, and the issue has polarised opinion in Shipston. Alongside the supermarket, Ainscough have also proposed building a petrol station, a retirement development comprising 80 cottages and 50 apartments, as well as 54 residential homes. Two rival groups have been set up in the town and the debate has been raging for months. Shipston Heart Alive (SHAC) are against over-development in the town, believe the supermarket would kill off the town centre, and disagree with building a major development on a greenfield site. Shipston Needs a Supermarket (SNAS) argue the majority of people in the town do not…