MUCH has been made recently of the planning application for the proposed Safeway supermarket in Great Harwood and we saw the glee on the face of Hyndburn Council's Director of Regeneration Nigel Rix, in your photograph (LET, July 17) following the presentation of a petition by residents in support of the development.

But Hyndburn Council leader Peter Britcliffe, has rightly pointed out that every facet of the planning application will be examined before reaching a decision.

There has been a great deal of correspondence in local newspapers for months and there have been statements by various chief officials, but one thing worries me - it is no secret that Great Harwood's town centre is in dire need of regeneration, but one supermarket is just that: a supermarket, not a regeneration scheme.

And one wonders if the legacy of the Safeway application is the sum total of the former council's ambitions.

It is said that one swallow does not make a summer and, equally, one supermarket does not either.

GRANVILLE BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.

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