I have received a 'have your say' card from Lidl asking for opinions about the building of the Shaftesbury store… I wrote that I support it… if… – they use the piece of land they will later dispose of by gifting it to the community to plant trees on and make available as a small park – plant plenty of trees around the car park – install rapid electric vehicle chargers in the car park – plan towards being a zero emissions store by whatever means they can, including installing solar on the store roof etc. You can also have your say at www.shaftesbury.lidl.co.uk
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At the drop-in day at Shaftesbury youth club Lidl held a couple of weeks ago, their head of property told me that the company had no plans to install either solar panels or electric charging points on the grounds that the planning authority (now Dorset Council) are not insisting on it.
Commercial developers rarely, if ever, do anything proactive unless they have to or there's more money in it for them. Both Persimmon and Redrow gave exactly the same excuse recently for not building sustainability into their plans for development in Shaftesbury.