Duddys yard, right size for a tesco express or similar??

[marpleexile]

Difficult access. Difficult highways issues.

Depends, surely, on exactly what is for sale. Assuming the store front comes with the yard, then there would be room for a modest Express type store, with room left over for more parking than the average one has.

If there is (relatively speaking) plenty of parking space, then I can't see there being a highways issue. Being located between two sets of traffic lights would give natural breaks in the traffic for people to enter and exit the car park without causing major issues (Yates' garage doesn't ever cause a traffic snarl up with cars constantly entering or leaving the forecourt).

[marpleexile]

Sensible negotiation between the Council and Royal Mail should produce a mutually acceptable solution, surely. 

Good one Dave. Tell us another.

The Council have behaved far from sensibly over this wider issue so far, to expect any different now is wishful thinking.

[Dave]

But surely that is only a 'worst case scenario' in which the Royal Mail is completely unreasonable and refuses to accept any other location, however suitable it may be.   

Stockport Council owns plenty of land - they certainly wouldn't need to buy the Duddy's site - and no doubt they have several sites which could be suitable for a new sorting office.  Sensible negotiation between the Council and Royal Mail should produce a mutually acceptable solution, surely. 

[wheels]

I'm not surprised either, for the same reasons as Henrietta.  But it's not a good place for a supermarket, for all the reasons given above. 

As for this:
£2 million! Why £2 million?  Neither the Duddy's site nor the construction costs would be anything like that level of expense. 

I think this refers to buying out the lease for the existing Royal Mail site

[Dave]

I'm not surprised either, for the same reasons as Henrietta.  But it's not a good place for a supermarket, for all the reasons given above. 

As for this:

the council will not stump up the 2 million pounds to relocate [the sorting office] as they cannot justify the expense to the electorate

£2 million! Why £2 million?  Neither the Duddy's site nor the construction costs would be anything like that level of expense. 

[wheels]

It's the arrow shaped plot in the middle of this shot. Could the Post Office sorting office be relocated there?

I shall repeat myself again. The sorting office is not being relocated. We have a 99 year lease on the site.
Kirkland developments can obtain as many planning permissions as they wish and the council will not stump up the 2 million pounds to relocate us as they cannot justify the expense to the electorate in these times of austerity.

Pity really its such a dreadful building.

[red666bear]

It's the arrow shaped plot in the middle of this shot. Could the Post Office sorting office be relocated there?

I shall repeat myself again. The sorting office is not being relocated. We have a 99 year lease on the site.
Kirkland developments can obtain as many planning permissions as they wish and the council will not stump up the 2 million pounds to relocate us as they cannot justify the expense to the electorate in these times of austerity.

[amazon]

It's the arrow shaped plot in the middle of this shot. Could the Post Office sorting office be relocated there?

Thanks my brains now Working .

[wheels]

Difficult access. Difficult highways issues.

[admin]

Sory  but where's duddys yard .

It's the arrow shaped plot in the middle of this shot. Could the Post Office sorting office be relocated there?

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[the rover]

Sory  but where's duddys yard .

It is located just below the Post Office on the other side of Stockport Road, the entrance is next to the cake shop, opposite the second hand furniture shop.

[the rover]

Traffic would be at a standstill, it is bad enough now on Stockport Road. A good place for a supermarket would be on Hibbert Lane!

[amazon]

Is it for sale or are you just being mischievous?

Sory  but where's duddys yard .

[Bluezorro]

Merchant shuts in march.
Staff being made redundant.
Contracting side going to operate from another unit.

[Howard]

Is it for sale or are you just being mischievous?