THE Times, February 15, says supermarket chain applies for permission to install a septic tank to service its new store in Okehampton.
It says the original plan to connect to the mains sewerage system would be very costly and it would be difficult pumping sewage up a steep gradient.
If they did not like it they should not have agreed to it.
Or is the whole thing being stage-managed and the rich and powerful can have what they want with a bit of window dressing, while Mr Ordinary, who perhaps would like to be a shopkeeper too, has no hope whatever of getting started.
Here and there in the borough, from time to time, planning permission has been withheld from this or that applicant and sometimes he has been compelled to knock down what he has hopefully built.
If the supermarket gets away with this, those people will have been cheated.
We shall have a state of one law for the rich and greedy and quite a different one for Tom, Dick and Harry.
Tom, Dick and Harry are going to have to wake up. Amongst the human multitude there are plenty ready to use their fellow men as doormats.
S L Miles
Norleigh Mill Farm
Inwardleigh