Is supermaket in interests of council tax-payers? (From Western Telegraph)

Is supermaket in interests of council tax-payers?

Dear Editor, I read in this week's edition (March 17th) that our beloved County Council has decided in its great wisdom to advertise for interested parties to apply to develop a supermarket or a supermarket and a primary school in the centre of Fishguard.

Why should it be in the interests of local council taxpayers to have a supermarket which will enable local shopkeepers and farmers and hauliers to take early retirement (unpaid, of course)?

Does anyone seriously believe that they will, in the long term, when the competition has been closed down and the prices have risen, benefit from having a large supermarket destroying the market town feel of our tourist attraction here?

Yours faithfully,

Sally A Williams Cri-yr-Wylan, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire