Have a say about Amble supermarket plan
People in a Northumberland seaside town are being invited to a meeting tomorrow night to discuss controversial plans for a new supermarket.
The Duke of Northumberland's estates was given outline planning permission in May to build a supermarket and 49 homes on land at Amble.
Since then, there has been a groundswell of opinion in the town that people were not consulted properly prior to that application being approved.
A public meeting was organised in September to give people an opportunity to air their views before the full planning application is submitted.
At that meeting, the results of a survey were announced which showed that 79% of people felt they hadn't been properly consulted by local planning authority Northumberland County Council and 81% felt they hadn't been properly consulted by the estates. Now a second meeting is to take place tomorrow night.
Town councillor Ray Saunders, who is to chair the meeting, said: "It's about giving people the opportunity to see any plans, and comment on them before the formal planning committee of the town council sits.
"We want as much knowledge of what the people of Amble want, and if they have concerns these can be expressed as part of our formal response."
The meeting will be held at the Dovecote Centre at 7pm.
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