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Article: Shopkeepers angry over plan for store ; LITTLE ASTON: Fears Tesco Express could badly hit trade for existing businesses
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- December 19, 2007
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LITTLE Aston residents and shopkeepers are fighting plans to
build a new Tesco Express in Rosemary Hill Road which they fear will
hit small stores.
The supermarket giant has applied to Birmingham City Council to
knock down the Regal Garage and build a new store.
But shop owners in Little Aston are concerned that the store will
take trade away from their shops.
Joga Singh, from Raj News on Clarence Road, has been trading for
13 years.
He said: "It is not long since a convenience store opened and
that has affected trade.
"There are already enough shops nearby and Mere Green
supermarkets are only a few miles away.
"Around 30 or 40 people have signed the petition which will be
sent to the ...