Think what’s best for town’s future

Let’s be honest, it is disingenuous of them to suggest they have exhausted all office possibilities. Trilogy Developments is a one man band based in north London and retained by Morrisons. Please do not be fooled. They never wanted offices on site as drawn as it would seriously impact on traffic visibility from the roundabout. If you had Googled ‘potential office site’ and this location (Leamington Spa/CV31) in the last 12 months you’d have come up with nothing. Still true today. Search on Savills’ website (their retained commercial property agents) for office sites/development land and key in the postcode and you will find nothing.

The council must refuse this application and I suggest they place a moratorium on all out of town retail expansion with immediate effect. Go and see the decay in US town centres and cities caused by such developments.

The Ford Foundry site was, and remains, a unique opportunity to bring significant employment to the town on a site adjacent to a great railway station at the centre of the UK rail network. We need employment in the town which 100,000 sq ft of offices would bring - typically 400-500 office workers. Bizarre then that the Law Society /SRA left Leamington in recent weeks. As I understand it, they moved to the Mailbox, Birmingham - not far from New Street Station and a critical factor in choosing their new location. Our loss.

Let’s think what’s best for Leamington’s long-term future, not Trilogy’s short-term gain. - Matt Western, via email.