Foundations soon to be laid at Gloucester Railway Triangle

“*Kingsway my mistake.”

“@ Deadlock

Don't forget that they're is also an Aldi over the road from Tesco, Quedgeley and there is a new Asda getting built in 2013 in Kingway, Gloucester.”

“Poor poor decision, I have been against yet another super market, we just don't need it, Asda super store 2 x Sainsburys, 3 x Tesco's (plus and upgrade to the St Oswalds one) Morrisons practically up the road from this "new" Morrison and 2 x Lidls. I know there are a few more but those are the ones that instantly come to mind - so for me that's 9 stores that would take me around 5 mins to get to.

It's a massive site which, and I have sad this before, could have benefited from what Sam58 said below, a business / conference centre to bring events into Gloucester and therefore the need to produce an attractive bus / train Station which can serve to promote Gloucester and Gloucestershire as a whole.”

“Yes the railway triangle development is progressing unabated. Yet another supermarket to enable Gloucester citizens to stock up on cheap beer and drink themselves into a state of oblivion or buy more food and sit in front of the tele eating. A wilderness occupied by rabbits, foxes, badgers and other flora and fauna has now been desecrated and will be turned into more bricks, concrete and tarmac with yet another set of traffic lights. A typical example of what happens when greedy, grabbing, Graham and his business cronies dictate what happens in the City. I wonder what will happen to the £6.1 million pounds that Network Rail obtained from the sale of the land? What's the betting that tax-payers will not see any of it?”

“Haven't we got enough supermarkets???????? Agree with all of the posts below .........it will come to a point where supermarkets will reach saturation point an then what.......empty units!! Yes you are creating a bigger ghost town!”

“Morrison's pay less per hour than Tesco's @£7.14 per hour (if you're over 18)
Morrisons pay less than Sainsbury's, less than Waitrose and much less than Aldi....In fact Aldi pay the highest per hour rate of all of them...although Waitrose staff get an annual bonus as all do in the John Lewis Partnership.

A typical Morrison's contract is less than 16 hours per week (enough to get a single person working tax credit or child tax credits though)
Morrison's have the highest number of apprentices working for them of all companies in the UK.”

“Tishwash - it's because the workers there are only on 8 or 16 hour contracts. 4 people on an 8 hour contract is better for Morrisons as they can avoid paying National Insurance, it looks good on the headlines, and the employees are only paid for 8 hours when they take a holiday.

Supermarkets well and truly screw the majority of their workers over, and they are all guilty of the same practises.

It really is such a shame for Gloucester that this prime piece of land will be see a Morrisons erected. I always wanted to see a mainline station built there among other things, so I guess Gloucester will have to make do with the existing Station.

Of course there were plenty of people on here at the time applauding the decision! The Anti Visionaries.”

“1000 jobs at morrisons, how big is it going to be, the biggest waitrose I know of has no where near that number of staff”

“Its so sad the lack of vision in Gloucester, this could have been something special not just another supermarket. As has been said before and it's a decent comparison to make, worcester is a good example of how to use land like this with far more imaginative things than supermarkets.

The two most recent building developments, Gloucester's railway triangle gets a new supermarket, a plot of land near Worcester city centre is to be turned into a Covent garden type attraction with small independent traders, artisan shops etc etc. the latter is what Gloucester needs, not more bland uninteresting developments. Tourists do not visit cities for their range of supermarkets.”

“j”